Storm Cleanup: 2010-03-13
This past weekend (March 13th and 14th, 2010) brought lots of rain, wind, and melting snow runoff unfortunately, that’s left our yard and house significantly worse for the wear; broken gutters, snapped tree limbs, scattered gravel and rubbish throughout the yard, and mud galore. The cleanup will take several days at least and comprises many tasks. So I’ll keep track of all the work involved in the redding up in the wake of this storm, in the comments below.
March 15th, 2010 at 1:27 pm
04:00 PM: The gail-force winds snapped off a larg limb from the tree in the south west corner of Mom’s property, and is currently resting atop the cable wire that stretches from the pole to the side of the house. I’m getting my chain saw out now. Hopefully it will start up okay in this cold.
04:15 PM: The saw revved up just fine. I cut the limb into four sections and pulled each one down to the compost pile. However, we still have pooling water that surrounds the pile. So I left the limb near there, until the water completely recedes. Then I’ll take it the rest of the way.
March 17th, 2010 at 2:35 pm
02:00 PM: Since we’ve moved everything up off of the cellar floor, we thought it’d be a good time to scrub the floor. So to that end, I began work in the front (west end) of the basement, moving everything off the tables and shelves to the middle and back (east) end of the cellar. I’ll do this one little section at a time.
05:00 PM: Then, outside, I placed the ramp back at the front of the shed door. The rain had washed some dirt into the tracks where the ramp sat prior to the storm so that it would not fit properly until I shoveled out that extra dirt. I also moved the lawn tractor back inside the shed.
March 19th, 2010 at 1:15 pm
04:10 PM: Bought some downspout bands (for holding the spouting in place) on today’s shopping trip.
March 21st, 2010 at 11:53 am
01:50 PM: Repaired all gutters damaged during last weekend’s storms. Please see the Gutter Maintenance: 2010 project for more details.
May 30th, 2010 at 9:04 am
12:00 PM: Put the leaf blower and hedge trimmer back in the shed, and moved the four Christmas garland totes back down to the basement.