Rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain

12 days this month (out of 17 days)it has rained. Makes it very difficult to get things done. We've gotten a couple dozen repairs out of it so far and a few roofs to do. More rain over next 3 days and more forecast for next week. Aarg!!!! The upper midwest is over the drought. :woohoo:

pgriz, good to hear from you. We ended up doing the repair the following day. My guy said that he could tell that the vent top had blown off long ago and nobody had ever noticed. I hope that if the drama queen buys the house she uses someone else for her roof work. Too high strung for me.

@ GKRFG: you know, there's a way to handle that - tell the customer that you'll do it, but to do so you've got to get the safety gear together plus a proper crew... and the cost would be (say) 2 guys minimum for 4 hours minimum plus danger premium, plus travel expenses, or wait in line for the next available service call slot at the regular rates. Oh, and money up front on a credit card, natch. Plus a written note from the current owners that they authorize access and repairs. If she balks, she's not serious.

Another day of rain here. We got a few hours in this morning before it came in and it hasn't stopped yet. On the plus side, the phone is ringing. 15 new calls today, 135 for the month. But it's impossible to keep up.

Had a lady call today, she's in the process of buying a big house. There is a vent cap that blew off and obviously there is water getting in. I told her it would have to wait because I wasn't going to send any one out in the rain on a 12/12 3-story roof to cover the vent. She doesn't even own the house yet. She wasn't happy. Not my problem.

Too many calls to take care of, it will be Friday before we can even look at all of them.

Rant over.

This is April 23 in lower Michigan, and we have 1 inch of snow forecast for tonight and snow and rain mixed for the next few days. What the Hell!! It is supposed to be about 65 degrees and somewhat sunny. It was nice today, but right back to the cold for the next few days. I have had enough already. the rivers are flooding from all the rain for the last few weeks and the Mississippi river went from being so low that the barges could not navigate to flooding at St. Louis in 3 weeks. What gives?

4"-6" of wet snow last night.....We need the moisture, but enough, already!

Check that: Someone, maybe Joseph set the rain gauge up. Looks like between 2 & 3" fell

I think/ hear that we got less than 2" here. I have not set up my rain gauge yet.

More coming on Tuesday now they say

The rain is still falling, but in different places. Too much, too little and too much waste and polution. We are really screwing up the planet.

Is the "drought" over in the midwest then? How about in Texas?

Looks like everybody from Robert, to me, past twill right up towards OS (IIRC, Grand Rapids) is about to get hammered. Its gusty as heck, we have already finished all of our repairs as well, so I've got the morning off.

I'd be hunting morels but it's way to windy to be in the woods.

Vaa, good to hear from you!! The entire middle of the U. S. has been way dry. I am wondering if this rain is coming all the way from Texas, or just coming up the Mississippi river valley? Is there rain down in Texas and Oklahoma? The rivers have been down so far that they can't run any barges up them.

Hi Mike, glad to see you back here. Last year we were way short of rain and that continued into the winter with a lack of snow. All of that changed at the end of January and not it's so wet that the farmers are going to have a hard time getting any planting in if it keeps up.