Storms and stuff

http://www.tennessean.com/article/D4/20090...EWS01/303290001

We had some bad storms come through the area yesterday. All we ended up with was a lot of rain, but the radio and TV were handing out tornado warnings. There were several areas where air was moving quickly in opposite directions, which, if the news is to be believed, are the conditions necessary to create tornadoes. I also found out we have a siren and loudspeaker within earshot that warns us if a tornado warning is in effect.

I stood on the balcony and watched the storm. I could see the clouds moving in opposite directions, which was interesting to observe. I saw a columnar-looking cloud I kept my eyes on for a few minutes. It was about the size and shape that I might expect a tornado to take - surprisingly tall and narrow for a cloud - but I saw nothing to indicate it was anything but a cloud.

After the tornado excitement died down, I found out we had water running down in the kitchen. At least this is one thing I can't blame on my noisy asshole neighbors upstairs. The roof was leaking. The folks upstairs got a little, we got a bit more, and the lady on the ground floor got the worst of it. Some ran down between the walls, and when it hit the bottom, it had nowhere else to go. It's pretty well dried up in our place now, but who knows what it's doing behind the walls. Hope mold doesn't take hold.

Hey, speaking of my asshole upstairs neighbors, THEY'RE MOVING TOMORROW! 🎉

Yup, they're upstairs now, blasting their TV, moving stuff around, stomping around, dropping shit on hardwood floors - which is amazing, because we don't have hardwood floors. Hopefully, they're making preparations to move, and this isn't just another Sunday night.

congrats on the moving neighbors... when we first moved here our neighbors on both sides were asses... since then both have moved and this place is much easier to live in.

As for the 'nados. I have experienced a couple and both times it was fairly certain something very odd was happening. We almost never get them in this area, though I was just in the right place at the right time twice.

DocJon wrote:Hope mold doesn't take hold.

Hey, speaking of my asshole upstairs neighbors, THEY'RE MOVING TOMORROW! 🎉

Yup, they're upstairs now, blasting their TV, moving stuff around, stomping around, dropping shit on hardwood floors - which is amazing, because we don't have hardwood floors. Hopefully, they're making preparations to move, and this isn't just another Sunday night.

Better have the landlord open up the wall at the baseboard. Not a matter of if, its a matter of when it grows mold. One major leak means its been leaking all along. Drill a 1/2" hole in the baseboard and spray in bleach.

As someone thats had and lived in duplex's for 20 years on/off you get all kinds. I had one clown that dropped dumbbells on the floor just to piss us off. When I evicted them that's what they left on my beat up floors. Another mistake I made was to remove carpets and refinish the floors. Couldn't keep first floor tenants until I changed the construction.

People are assholes. You have a 80/20 shot of getting another asshole. Good luck ;p

Lexx brings up a really good point about the walls.

We lived in a rented duplex. There came a point where my wife was constantly getting bad headaches. All the time. She went to the doctor and the doctor determined it was from a reaction to mildew. (don't know how she figured that out, but she did) She told us we needed to get out immediately.

After this happened, we started talking and figured out those times she got mad at me for letting water get on the bathroom floor wasn't actually my fault. It turns out the water was coming in from the roof, going down the wall and coming out on the bathroom floor. What really made it bad was the fact that this same wall also held the air return for the AC, so this stuff was being blown through the whole house.

We left and the headaches went away.

The part that really got me was when we told the landlord we were moving that week and he said he knew about the roof and was meaning to have it fixed, but didn't think it was causing any problems. I felt bad as they were a sweet older couple and their rental properties were their retirement, but our health comes first.