When Will It Rain ?

[Smokinjoe-VRCCDS#0005]

More like when will it not rain     My first weekend off in 5 straight weeks I got some much needed stuff done around the house with rain rollin' in this evening . They claim 5 to 7 inches over the next few days . My yard is rotten from all the rain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U0fRwAbrHI

[f6john]

Freezing rain here right now, hoping it’s only a light coating.

[Jess from VA]

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No kidding Joe.  More rain up here than ever in recorded history.  My front yard is OK and drains, but my backyard is often a lake, and I've taken to pumping it out with a submersible.  I'm going to have to dig out a drainage ditch at the bottom, or probably catch malaria this summer.  I'm not looking forward to that much shovel work, and keep hoping for the mud hole to dry out to be better to work in but it has not been dry down there since last summer sometime.

On the upside, after my fourth try, I think I've got the foundation leak in my basement fixed.  I discovered I should have been using asphalt/rubber roofing goop, instead of concrete sealer.

[msb]

Actually got our very first snow on the ground this Winter two days ago, and first week of sub zero temps. Been a pretty mild and reasonably dry Winter so far. I don't mind this change...I couldn't handle the real Winter weather the rest of our country is getting, and the rest of my fellow Canucks would make fun of me if I complained anyway . It is encouraging to see all the snow back up on the mountains...it bodes well for the Spring and Summer months, keeping my fly fishing streams full

[msb]

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On the upside, after my fourth try, I think I've got the foundation leak in my basement fixed.  I discovered I should have been using asphalt/rubber roofing goop, instead of concrete sealer.

Jess, best way to patch concrete slabs where moisture creeps up from the ground is with a Crystalline concrete-based patching material, such as this one from Xypex. I've used it myself and also been involved on large commercial flooring projects where its been used to address moisture migration issues in concrete slabs prior to installation of floorcoverings. Just a FYI if your current method fails.
https://www.xypex.com/products/repair-accessories/patch-n-plug

[Alpha Dog]

More like when will it not rain     My first weekend off in 5 straight weeks I got some much needed stuff done around the house with rain rollin' in this evening . They claim 5 to 7 inches over the next few days . My yard is rotten from all the rain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U0fRwAbrHI

The Wife goes to the Weather Channel often.  She is a weather spotter up here and she watches.  I pretty much bitch.  This rain weather trend now going on month 26 here and the ground may never dry out.   Anyway the Weather Channel is all about the rain the south is getting, many place already 10 inches above normal for the winter and gobs coming your way.  Yikes.   I feel for you folks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OJeR4544XY

[Jess from VA]

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On the upside, after my fourth try, I think I've got the foundation leak in my basement fixed.  I discovered I should have been using asphalt/rubber roofing goop, instead of concrete sealer.

Jess, best way to patch concrete slabs where moisture creeps up from the ground is with a Crystalline concrete-based patching material, such as this one from Xypex. I've used it myself and also been involved on large commercial flooring projects where its been used to address moisture migration issues in concrete slabs prior to installation of floorcoverings. Just a FYI if your current method fails.
https://www.xypex.com/products/repair-accessories/patch-n-plug

Thank you Mike.  What I had/have, is a (60yo) cement block basement wall (in the back corner unfinished utility room, 3 feet down from the sump hole) where a few blocks on the bottom row slipped forward slightly, but they sit a third inch above the floor, overhanging the next row of blocks that go below floor level. The mortar cracked underneath where the blocks moved, and water is entering (with heavy rain).  The overhang and slight crack a third inch above the floor was invisible till you put your ear on the floor, then stuck your finger in there. I sealed the whole area, but did not get up underneath well enough. So I cleaned it out and squeezed in the rubber asphalt based roofing sealer with a caulk gun under pressure, then punched in in by hand.  It stays flexible and should not shrink.  And it doesn't come off anything you get it on (like the carpet).

We've had three rains since the fix where it might have leaked before (but didn't), but have not had yet another multi day/inch deluge that started the leak last fall.  I'm not going to know for sure until we get some more Noah's Arc rain (which will probably be any day now), but I think I got it.

It looks like the stuff you recommended would work, but I think what I did will too, and I needed to shoot it in with a gun, laying on the floor

And by the way, those are some spectacular pictures.  

 

[DIGGER]

Same here in the Houston area.   Been raining since September.    When I take country road rides the corn fields and cotton fields should be turned over and disk and ready to plant by now but nothing is being done as the farmers can't get their equipment out there without sinking.    Could affect this year's crops.

[hubcapsc]

Yesterday was good. Rain came hard last night... will probably rain a whole
bunch for days...

I thought Joe's youtube was him working, but it is rockNroll...

-Mike

[Smokinjoe-VRCCDS#0005]

Most of my yesterday was on the roof patching and hoping I stopped two leaks on each side of the tin roof. My house was built in 1926 ( 93 years ago )  and most of the main structure was from the house that my Grandfather was born in about a mile from here that house was dismantled and any used material worth keeping was reused on this house. I'm guessing some of the wood in this old house is 150 years old or better. New metal roof and new chimney are in the works the main reason I've been taking all the over-time I can get . I don't do credit cards or finance anything if I can't pay for it I can't have it.

[hubcapsc]

I hope you fixed your leak, Joe... I guess you know by now with all the rain...

I like old wood... remember when y'all were at my house, you saw the slab I was working on
and asked if it was going to be a table?... Only this week I finished it off and attached it
to the front of the slide-out cabinet I made a while back...



Now I'm working on the three drawer fronts... 25 or so years ago we brought home a load
of thick 18 foot long yellow pine splined boards salvaged from a local mill they dismantled... I'm
crosscutting, ripping and resawing the giant gnarly old boards with this new Dewalt flexvolt saw,
what a beast!



I never know what the boards look like on the inside until I cut them out... I hope
the two new drawer fronts darken with exposure with the light to look more
like the other one I cut out a couple of years ago...

I used to spend all my money before I made it, but that stopped back in the 90s... I live
in a shack in the woods I built myself, but the heck with buying stuff on credit 

-Mike

[cookiedough]

we had the wettest late fall in recorded history here I think.  That doozy we had in a 24 hour period of over 10 inches in some spots flooding the roads nearly unable to get home that one night from work washing cars off the roads into farmers fields was pretty scary.  I was going to run thru it with my truck near 100 yard section in the dark over a flooded road river running over it guessing 10 inches deep pretty steady flow but decided against it when I saw a brush pile bigger than my truck run right in front of me across the road.  I had to drive 20 miles outta the way backtracking to get home somewhat safely and lucky I did for on those same roads part of the roads washed out a few feet along the edges having dropoffs over 1 foot deep taking out the concrete/blacktop surface.  Never seen such flooding ever and probably never will again even making the ducks/fish cry....

This freezing rain crap we just recently had is no fun either since my truck sits outside in the winter overnight unable to scrap the 1 cm of ice off the front windshield having to let it warm up over 5 minutes defroster on high plus using cardboard helps on front windshield already gone thru 2 of them ripping them to shreds trying to pull them off the front windshield in the mornings either from snow or ice.  It was funny on the news seeing local kids on their sidewalks during that ice taking their ice hockey skates on their sidewalks with hockey/puck skating around all over.

As far as charging items on credit card,  they come in handy when no cash in wallet or unforseen payments plus we use our credit card for all gas and food purchases which is every month over 1 grand alone.  We get 2% cash back on our credit card so 20-30 bucks cash back every month is worth having a credit card for.  It use to be 5% cash back years ago but back then, we never spent over 1500 per month on our credit cards, now 1500 is common per month.  Cannot wait for spring when take cycle to work getting 35 avg mpg vs. my truck at 16 avg mpg and in this COLD winter drops to 15 mpg tops as low as 14.    Just make sure you pay your credit card bill entirely off every month for the finance charges are horrible.

[Smokinjoe-VRCCDS#0005]

I hope you fixed your leak, Joe... I guess you know by now with all the rain...

I like old wood... remember when y'all were at my house, you saw the slab I was working on
and asked if it was going to be a table?... Only this week I finished it off and attached it
to the front of the slide-out cabinet I made a while back...



Now I'm working on the three drawer fronts... 25 or so years ago we brought home a load
of thick 18 foot long yellow pine splined boards salvaged from a local mill they dismantled... I'm
crosscutting, ripping and resawing the giant gnarly old boards with this new Dewalt flexvolt saw,
what a beast!



I never know what the boards look like on the inside until I cut them out... I hope
the two new drawer fronts darken with exposure with the light to look more
like the other one I cut out a couple of years ago...

I used to spend all my money before I made it, but that stopped back in the 90s... I live
in a shack in the woods I built myself, but the heck with buying stuff on credit 

-Mike

I like your place in the woods thought it was pretty cool with the old double doors and the wood work you did on the inside. Hoping to ride back that way soon the over-time at work and all this rain is keeping my bikes parked 

[hubcapsc]

Just make sure you pay your credit card bill entirely off every month   

I definitely have a credit card. One. The same one my wife has. From the State Credit Union
(I was a state employee). It would be hard to ride motorcycles if you had to go inside
every 100 miles to pay before you could pump...

The Credit Union security team is very strict, I have to remember to tell them before I go out of
state or it doesn't go well for me. Seems like they'd learn... "uh-oh! This guy's card is being used
out of state... he's getting ten dollars worth of gas two or three times a day and staying in cheap
motels! better turn off the card!!!"

-Mike

[Jess from VA]

I have to notify them when I leave the state too.

I kind of like the security since a few years ago, I discovered I'd been buying stuff at a gift shop in Ireland, then later, buying a Bissel carpet cleaner in Chicago.  I'm real careful on where and how I use that card, and I'd sure like to know how it got compromised for use in Ireland and Chicago.

When I go into convenience stores while riding around I have to ask if their machine is a pokie or a swipee, and sometimes they give me dirty looks. 

[0leman]

After a brief January thaw and 5 very enjoyable 100 mile rides, we are back in the winter mode.   In the last week we have had 5 storms come  thru.   One of the was rain, it rained for nearly 15 hours straight.  Does wonderful things to the snow in one's yard.  Then it started snowing again.  Not much at a time, 2-4 inches at a time.  have a bout 10" of snowpack on yard.  Looks like we will be getting more to come.  heard on the news this morning Crater Lake (about 50 air mile from me) that they have over 100" of white stuff on the ground,  and that was a couple days and three storms ago. 

So, everyone is getting to enjoy the wet weather this year.   Sorry about sending them across country to you folks on the East side.  Guess we need a wall built between us.