An old man's career goes flat, Snackbar moves to open deck

Use the cut up tarp pieces for padding.
Mike is a #### good guy. If everyone had is problem solving skills, there would be no more problems. He will be very missed when he eventually retires.

 

There was a lot of carpet for padding, but nothing holding in place, so when the tarp flapped a little, it fell to the deck. The guy showed up and gave me both of his tarps, but had just started his day so he couldn't stick around to help tarp. It was moderately windy, and I am between two trucks (one of which is one of those touring musician's equipment haulers with a fancy paint job)...which made getting a tarp on this weird shaped load a little tricky, but I got it done without damaging the tarp, the load, my neighbors trucks or myself. So I will count this as a win.

Your right about Mike, as a 1 man operation, that job has to be a PITA, but he still has a good attitude and has a good sense of humor. Maybe that's a defense mechanism to keep the stress of the job from driving him nuts. I wish we could sit down and shoot the #### for a while, but neither has the spare time.

Friday is my new travel agent's last day sitting behind a desk. I wonder who is the next contestant on the fleet manager merry-go-round. They're running out of people...the only 2 left on the regulars board are Cesar and Chris. I have only spoken to either one of them on the rare occasion when my regular FM was unavailable, and both seemed to, as Travis puts it, have their poop in a group (as in they have their #### together)...either one would work.

 

Rumor has it you are taking his place you just havent been told yet

 

They better not or else they'll have another dispatcher quit...I don't have the patience to deal with a bunch of a-hole cry baby drivers on a daily basis...

 

Couldn’t agree more.

 

I can’t afford a defense lawyer that I WILL need if I ever had to deal with ‘us’ all day….

 

@supersnackbar everything good on the home front? I have a general idea of where you’re at and that storm basically went right over you guys, praying for the best.

 

Last I heard we hadn't even lost power. At 7:30 (home time) the wife said the lights blinked and the neighbors were out of power, but our lights were still on (different circuit). She said it was starting to get windy, so now were getting the winds from the south-southwest. The thing is already in GA..

Update - messaged my wife with no reply. Messaged my daughter, no reply.. Messaged my son, he said wife and daughter fine. I have whole trees down, but none hit the house. He said there are trees and poles and power lines down all over the area. Checked the power company's outage map. In our county they have 18300 customers, 17,200 are without power right now.

 

Let us know if there is any way to help!

 

I finally got to speak to the Mrs. Only structure damage we got is one smaller limb that went thru the edge of our carport, but when we get storms like these coming in, she parks the trucks behind the house. The trees that got taken out weren't the ones I was expecting. We have a row of trees in the front of our property out near the road. We have been losing these trees gradually to some sort of tree killing disease, and one big one got hit by lightning 5 yrs ago. The two worst ones that need to come down are still standing. The ones that came down were along the neighbors side of our property and one large one was nestled in the very back of our property in a stand of trees. Both were healthy trees and both were uprooted and are now over the fence. Looks like I dig out my bigboy chainsaw on my next hometime because the on along the back would take 2 or 3 people holding hands to wrap around it's trunk.