Just Bitching

[Magpie]

So, as some of you may have heard, NY had a bit of a "weather" happening this week.

My big old post and beam barn got in the way of a wee bit of wind...


Some of it came through my window, the entire roof wound up in the road blocking both lanes of the highway.

Down the hill, a car was trapped under a power poll, and my barn roof was between the soon to be arriving fire trucks and those poor people.

So... what to do? Be an idiot, and venture out in a storm, of course. But Its Perilous! "I can handle the Peril!" (no you cant, its too perilous!)

Ran to my tractor with the front bucket and..... nothing. dead battery. ran to my van, and drove it to the tractor and in the perilous storm, jump started it. (I know, right? Shocking behaviour)

I had one lane cleared and got all the traffic cleared out just as the Fire trucks arrived to the rescue... ONE guy on the truck says "thanks" as they go past.

I[m not sure what part of my barn it was, or why they were there, but the 6" long nails sticking up through the wood would certainly not have been healthy for the Fire trucks tires. I stayed out there until the road was completely cleared, and then went in to dry off and warm up. But there was no warming up, as there was no electricity, so no heat!
So, almost 60 hours later, the power comes back on, I now have a flat tired tractor, a hacking wheezing cough, and the lady in town at the diner says to me "I hope you never have children so you dont raise anymore like yourself"
It was all I could do to not tell her "And I hope the next storm comes around, you are in a car wreck under a pole, and the rescue squad is late getting to you because I'm leaving the debris to THEM next time"
So, there, I'm done bitching now.
May you all not BE jerks, and may you all not Encounter jerks.
Steve Magpie