Here we are… July 2nd and the pool water still isn’t up to a desired temperature (at least MY desired temp anyway). I’ve NEVER had that happen before. Typically, we’re able to swim in early June. The water temp was almost there at 78° just a couple days ago, but we’re back at 76°. The pool is full of leaves this morning, and it’s over-full from all the rain we’ve had.
The front door hadn’t been open more than 5 minutes and it changed the view.
But so far, the rampaging storms have left us unscathed for the most part. Perry’s nephew, Coty, wasn’t so fortunate. He feels lucky that the damage wasn’t more severe, but it’s more of a burden on him than likely on others because he’s young, dumb, and broke.
Storm damage is awful for everyone but impacts some more than others.
Coty is married and he and his wife both work… still, they’re young and struggling. They just bought a house in a small town and are so proud of their accomplishment. They’re not really dumb… but they are young and broke. Now, they’re young, broke, and have a huge tree debris pile in their front yard.
Their town has a Mayor, but no council. The huge tree depicted above was blocking the road right at the end of their driveway so they called him. Mr. Mayor told them the town would not pay to remove the tree from the town’s street since theirs was the only home that had blocked access.
They found someone willing to clear the road for $500. They were told that to cut up the mess and haul it away it would be another $2,000. Their homeowners insurance has a $1500 deductible and since the uprooted tree didn’t damage the house, they wouldn’t cover it anyway. The only thing they could do was to tell the tree service to simply push the entire pile into their front yard.
Life is hard sometimes, isn’t it?
I remember a time when all I wanted was enough money saved that I could buy a new washer if mine broke. Crazy to have that as a goal, right? We’ve all been young, dumb, and broke at one point… and maybe some reading this still are…