Well, hail!

[f6john]

Woke up at 1:30 this morning to thunder and the pecking of hail hitting the house . I haven’t been out to look at my 2 month old gutters and metalwork, I’m thinking it was that bad? No 4” hail that I heard about out west. Tornadoes were north of me. Yesterday was picture perfect outside which I dedicated to yard work in lieu of riding, very adult of me don’t you think?

[DDT (12)]

John,

Very adult of you indeed! Had I still been a homeowner, I'm sure I'd have made a similar choice. Of course, those types of choices and trade-offs are among the very reasons I've abandoned homeownership! I did go for a ride instead... Up to Decatur, AL, for my usual three Penn-burgers. Ummmm, they sure were good, too!!! I'd missed them more than I'd thought...

We had some strong wind, thunder and lightning, and buckets of rain here in Cullman, AL, in the wee hours early this morning. I don't know about any hail, but none of the vehicles parked around our girl had any 'dimples' in their sheet metal, so...

I also adopted a suggestion from Jess about wrapping a bungie or two around the mid-section of the bike cover to reduce inflatability/ballooning. Since this is the same motel where our girl was tipped over last year, I was concerned how that would work... All good!

Good luck with all your responsibilities, my friend... I'm taking today off, but tomorrow my tush will be back in the saddle again! Very 'boyish' of me, don't you think?

DDT (12)

[f6john]

John,

Very adult of you indeed! Had I still been a homeowner, I'm sure I'd have made a similar choice. Of course, those types of choices and trade-offs are among the very reasons I've abandoned homeownership! I did go for a ride instead... Up to Decatur, AL, for my usual three Penn-burgers. Ummmm, they sure were good, too!!! I'd missed them more than I'd thought...

We had some strong wind, thunder and lightning, and buckets of rain here in Cullman, AL, in the wee hours early this morning. I don't know about any hail, but none of the vehicles parked around our girl had any 'dimples' in their sheet metal, so...

I also adopted a suggestion from Jess about wrapping a bungie or two around the mid-section of the bike cover to reduce inflatability/ballooning. Since this is the same motel where our girl was tipped over last year, I was concerned how that would work... All good!

Good luck with all your responsibilities, my friend... I'm taking today off, but tomorrow my tush will be back in the saddle again! Very 'boyish' of me, don't you think?

DDT (12)

Were  I a single footloose boyish 70 something, I’d like to think I’d be right there with you! Naturally, I’d need a seasoned nomad such as yourself to show me the finer points of the coddiewomple! Wonderful your girl stayed upright and ready for tomorrow’s adventures. Westward Ho!!!

[Jess from VA]

Woke up at 1:30 this morning to thunder and the pecking of hail hitting the house

Well, I was awakened at 0330 with the loud shrieking of a carbon monoxide sensor in my bedroom.  Sh!t does that get your attention. 

I keep it in my bedroom, because that room is right above my utility room with gas and electric panels, furnace/AC, water heater and the most likely place to have a fire or trouble (and if it was down in the utility room itself, I might not hear it when asleep upstairs (closed doors).

My power either surged or was bumped off and back on, and that sets that thing off LOUDLY.  This hardly ever happens anymore. 

So I have to get up and investigate that all is well, and tried going back to sleep with little luck.  I just cannot lay in bed and hope for sleep, so up and atom and coffee for me. 

This string of 70 degree days in March is nice, but won't last.   

[Jess from VA]

I also adopted a suggestion from Jess about wrapping a bungie or two around the mid-section of the bike cover to reduce inflatability/ballooning.

When I reported for active duty at Maxwell AFB AL, I had a CB750 Honda with big Vetter fairing and tall sissy.  My Bachelor Officer Quarters was right on the flight-line and subject to high winds and bad weather.  Even on the centerstand, I went out there to find the bike over on it's side several times (fluids leaking).

This is where I figured out I needed to reduce the sail effect of a full bike cover. 

Had there been a pole or street sign or something to tie the bike to, I would have done it.  They absolutely forbade me from rolling it into the hallway of my Q room (fire hazard my ass). 

Years later, after I acquired a wife, they gave me housing with a little garage (a row of tiny garages probably built 30-40 years earlier, hardly big enough to get any modern car in), but it was about 80 yards from my house.   It was California so the car stayed in front of the house, and my old Harley went in the garage.