Preparing for Emily 2
Saturday we took it easy. I mostly did laundry and arranged a bag with important documents in case we needed to leave the house. Emily’s trajectory changed and it seemed to be going further south into Tampico Tamps, Mexico. It gets ugly down there with torrential showers. I lived there during hurricane Gilbert back in 80-something. We had a river a few yards from our backyard, a little bridge a canoe and a boat. We found those on land after the storm but the house sustained no damage. In Mexico houses are made 100% of brick and cement, no wooden structures as it is done here. Poor people, however, make their homes out of whatever they can find, some even seeming to be made out of carton. Those people lost all they had. It was sad. After we moved out of Tampico, my parents donated the house and it now serves as hospital and food bank throughout the year and of course shelter when times get rough in the area. That was a very good house for us and we’re glad that it continues to be for others.
Well, I convinced Husband that we still should go to Home Depot to check out the wood… just in case. We got there at around 2:30-ish and there was quite a bit of people. We headed over to the wood and we got kicked out. The people, the employees, everyone was stressed and upset. We were asking for prices on the 4’x8’s and one of the employees kept telling us to go to the back. She’d be shaking her head and waving her arms out telling us to go to like 3 aisles down where the end of the line was. We didn’t even have a cart, so obviously we weren’t there for wood, but I guess she was just too tired.
We were going to check for other stuff but Hubby just told me we should go and return early Sunday morning. That seemed fine with me!
Sunday we got there at 6:45am and waited in line until the doors opened. There were about 15 people in front of us, all with their flatbed carts. We got one too ‘cause I convinced Husband that we should buy the plywood even if we were only going to get showers. If we didn’t use it we could always return it, but better safe and sorry. We spent 104 bucks in plywood (the one with several layers, not the single layer one generally used for roofing), some 2x4s, and a circular saw (yey!!! brrrroooooommmmm).
We got home at around 9 and started cutting wood. ^_^
We were going to cut the 2x4s larger than the width of the window and then force it in so that it would press the large plywood and hold it tightly in place. A good plan. But then our neighbor from across came over to offer assistance (Did we look that pathetic using the saw? And here I thought I looked all cool with my shaded goggles and measuring tape at my belt). He introduced us to board clips. These little clips that you put on the wood and then simply press the wood into the window and it will hold it securely in place. He gave us some he had left over and told us where to buy more. How nice!
I gotta bake him and his wife some cake.
^_^
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