The Home Improvement Thread

Silverback

Lima Gulf Bravo Foxtrot Juliet Bravo
We had a small tornado thing hit the area this morning. It took my back fence and moved it about 80'-100' and put it in pieces near the back of the house! One of the panels hit a 4x4 post I had placed in a whisky barrel that was anchored into the ground with rebar and had 90lbs of concrete plus 50 lbs of dirt.. knocked it over. I think that if it didn't hit it then it would have hit the back of the house. Another piece went sailing over the pool and landed on the other side near the house. There are trees uprooted, windows broken, shingles and roofs damaged and of course fences down all over the area. So feeling lucky that its only a fence at the moment. Hell it even removed the metal trim I have that is around the fridge opening (in the brick) on the outdoor kitchen which is under the patio. But the storm only lasted maybe a minute... not even. I was laying in bed.... heard what sounded like a train. Jumped out of bed to look out the window, couldn't see shit. Went to the living room to look and it was pretty much over. Just rain at that point.

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Anathollo

Armorall is my choice of lube
Staff member
We had a small tornado thing hit the area this morning. It took my back fence and moved it about 80'-100' and put it in pieces near the back of the house! One of the panels hit a 4x4 post I had placed in a whisky barrel that was anchored into the ground with rebar and had 90lbs of concrete plus 50 lbs of dirt.. knocked it over. I think that if it didn't hit it then it would have hit the back of the house. Another piece went sailing over the pool and landed on the other side near the house. There are trees uprooted, windows broken, shingles and roofs damaged and of course fences down all over the area. So feeling lucky that its only a fence at the moment. Hell it even removed the metal trim I have that is around the fridge opening (in the brick) on the outdoor kitchen which is under the patio. But the storm only lasted maybe a minute... not even. I was laying in bed.... heard what sounded like a train. Jumped out of bed to look out the window, couldn't see shit. Went to the living room to look and it was pretty much over. Just rain at that point.

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Damn! Glad it wasn't worse for you!
 

Silverback

Lima Gulf Bravo Foxtrot Juliet Bravo
Yeah, seen photos on the book of faces and there was a lot more damage in the hood. We got lucky IMO.
 

Silverback

Lima Gulf Bravo Foxtrot Juliet Bravo
When I brought the kid home from school we found broken fence pieces in my front yard... 175' from where they started! I did manage to get all the fence debris cleaned up and put up by the side of the house. Need to figure out what to do with it now. I don't think my trash pickup will take that much "construction material". Might just dry it out, cut it into manageable pieces and burn it in a firepit. lol
 

Taco Loco

Tired and Lazy, married to ‘The Laundry Fairy’
When I brought the kid home from school we found broken fence pieces in my front yard... 175' from where they started! I did manage to get all the fence debris cleaned up and put up by the side of the house. Need to figure out what to do with it now. I don't think my trash pickup will take that much "construction material". Might just dry it out, cut it into manageable pieces and burn it in a firepit. lol

Great wood for smores and hotdogs lol

Glad y'all were somewhat spared from the heavy destruction.
 

Silverback

Lima Gulf Bravo Foxtrot Juliet Bravo
For a 30-45 second "storm".. she was a doozy! I have been through a couple mild tornados before and they lasted 2-3 minutes I guess.. but this was seconds.. Just crazy the amount of damage.
 

Anathollo

Armorall is my choice of lube
Staff member
For a 30-45 second "storm".. she was a doozy! I have been through a couple mild tornados before and they lasted 2-3 minutes I guess.. but this was seconds.. Just crazy the amount of damage.
It was like the tornado that blew through Robbie's neighborhood. It fucked that whole neighborhood up.
 

Silverback

Lima Gulf Bravo Foxtrot Juliet Bravo
Oh yeah, very similar. Luckily my roof stayed on.
 

balakay

BabyMax
Wife wants a couple more cameras at the house. Not super impressed with our Nest camera we currently have and don't really want to pay per camera for cloud storage. So after looking around, I'm going to get a Reolink PoE camera system with an NVR. So they won't be connected to the Internet in any way and none of my videos will be stored anywhere except on a drive at my house. That's how the idea started... Now I'm reworking my entire home network and putting a wall mount server rack in the closet in my gaming room. If I'm running Cat6 through my attic I'm going to go ahead and put in a couple drops in the living room and master bedroom as well as four drops at my desk. Also going to run a couple ceiling mount Ubiquiti access points. One in the hall for the bedrooms and one in the kitchen for kitchen, dining room, garage. They should overlap plenty to cover the living room. Down the line, I'll add a NAS and mini-PC running Home Assistant. Ordered the rack, 1000ft of Cat6 (way more than I need but I'll use the rest at my parents house they're building), patch panel, and keystones today. Trying to figure out which PoE switch I want. Once I get it all in I'll have ATT rerun my fiber to the closet and get it all going then I'll add the camera system and access points.
 
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