Happy Power Dance!!!
Oct. 23rd, 2008 08:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dindaI have electricity back on at my house!!! Can you see me finally doing the happy power dance? Can we get an amen lightbulbs?!!! Even better the whole house did not (as of yet) spark up and burn when I turned the master breaker back on. Woohoo!!! and only a mere 42 days since the storm hit. Can't tell you how thrilled I was to drive up to the house and see a brand new digital meter with 0000 just waiting for me to start consuming power again. Progress but just one step of many to come.
Next - sewer line is the most pressing. Then a water heater and a hundred other little things. For my own planning purposes, the current todo list:
Drag the dang plumber across the canal to fix the pipes.
Buy a new water heater, new outdoor lights
Have electrician come back to hook up above
Have a/c_heater fixed (including deck and interior unit, all new copper pipes)
Buy new washer/dryer
Get plumber and electrician back out to install and supply new lines/power
Get stairs replaced
Figure out what to do with garage walls; i.e what kind of new breakaway walls to have installed
Order and have new garage doors installed, ack, door openers too I guess
Find one of the many Backhoe operators to remove the top layer of soil around the whole house that have too much and too small debris to have removed any other way
Continue the calling of various insurance adjusters until I actually start to get reimbursed for all this work being done.
In other home repair/remodel news:
order the new ceiling planks
purchase the bamboo flooring for bedroom, bath and kitchen
hardi-board for interior TV wall, have new wiring to that wall installed when electrician is out for other stuff
buy new living room furniture since you're giving yours away, ditto for your mattress set
tools 2 buy: miter saw, table saw, new sawzall blades, jig saw, extension cords
Continue telling yourself how lucky you are to have a house and all your stuff when so many others are now living in tents and RVs in their yards. Can't tell you how sad it is to see this happening all over the Island. That and how few homes had lights on in my area was also sad. Sister's house was yellow tagged today, thus officially marking it as unlivable. I really need to post up those pics for you to see.
My next house will walk away from danger.
Of course I won't actually be able to live in my current home for at least a few more days; hot water would be nice, and there will be no internet until sometime in November so obviously can't work there until that happens but ya know what I can so do without a TV way moreso than net access.
Next - sewer line is the most pressing. Then a water heater and a hundred other little things. For my own planning purposes, the current todo list:
Drag the dang plumber across the canal to fix the pipes.
Buy a new water heater, new outdoor lights
Have electrician come back to hook up above
Have a/c_heater fixed (including deck and interior unit, all new copper pipes)
Buy new washer/dryer
Get plumber and electrician back out to install and supply new lines/power
Get stairs replaced
Figure out what to do with garage walls; i.e what kind of new breakaway walls to have installed
Order and have new garage doors installed, ack, door openers too I guess
Find one of the many Backhoe operators to remove the top layer of soil around the whole house that have too much and too small debris to have removed any other way
Continue the calling of various insurance adjusters until I actually start to get reimbursed for all this work being done.
In other home repair/remodel news:
order the new ceiling planks
purchase the bamboo flooring for bedroom, bath and kitchen
hardi-board for interior TV wall, have new wiring to that wall installed when electrician is out for other stuff
buy new living room furniture since you're giving yours away, ditto for your mattress set
tools 2 buy: miter saw, table saw, new sawzall blades, jig saw, extension cords
Continue telling yourself how lucky you are to have a house and all your stuff when so many others are now living in tents and RVs in their yards. Can't tell you how sad it is to see this happening all over the Island. That and how few homes had lights on in my area was also sad. Sister's house was yellow tagged today, thus officially marking it as unlivable. I really need to post up those pics for you to see.
My next house will walk away from danger.
Of course I won't actually be able to live in my current home for at least a few more days; hot water would be nice, and there will be no internet until sometime in November so obviously can't work there until that happens but ya know what I can so do without a TV way moreso than net access.
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Date: 2008-10-25 05:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-25 04:19 pm (UTC)I'm really sorry about your sister's house, though :( What do they plan to do?