More Rain

It rained today.  A lot.  But not continually.  It was like squalls that dumped barrels of rain periodically throughout the day.  When Deb took a walk this afternoon, she could see the weather pattern in the sky and it looked like the same system just came back around several times, dumping its rain on us again and again.  There was a couple of times when I would just stand under a roof overhang, watching the water shoot off the roof, waiting for the deluge to pass before continuing work.

There is standing water everywhere.  The RV’s are parked in the best part of the RV section, and even so, a couple are nearly completely surrounded by water.  Kind of like your own private island.

Probably better than other parts of the RV section.  There it’s just a lake.

With only two days left, it’s time to start winding things up.  So, lots of smaller projects to do.  Only there are still some big ones.  In two identical buildings, the complaint was that there was no hot water for the sinks in one of the bathrooms.  We discovered that hot water had never been plumbed to the sinks when the building was built.  So, with two days left, three of the guys were tapping into a hot water line, running new plumbing down a wall, and fixing that situation. They think they can get it done by tomorrow.

Troy and I were back in the conference center.  We had taken the scaffolding down yesterday and then discovered we had forgotten to patch the hole near the ceiling.  So, first thing today, we put up the scaffolding again so we could make the repair.  We also repaired the holes we had dug in the wall to get the snake out.

The women went through all the buildings making sure all the lights worked and changing all the smoke alarm batteries and any dead light bulbs.  They noted anything that needed additional repair.  Our list is now getting longer.  We learned this evening that the benches they had spent quite a bit of time on need to be redone.  They were told to put two coats of water seal on the benches. The instructions on the can tell you to use only one coat.  So many of the benches bubbled up and turned white in spots.  I wonder how they will take the news of the do-over tomorrow morning...

We had dinner with Kenneth and Lisa, our group leaders.  They are possibly planning a trip to Michigan and we gave them all kinds of places to visit and things to do.  Gotta sell them on our state.  Texas in the winter may be a good place to be (when it’s not raining), but Michigan summers are great.