I was out of state in my gyrocopter at a national rotorcraft convention. Friday morning I received a call from my wife saying that my shop was once again severely damaged. We had some god awful winds and trees were down everywhere in the county. I huge tree went through my roof once again.
I made an emergency high speed flight home and inspected the damage from the air.
I got a track hoe in and started sawing inside and outside my shop. Worked till dark last night bridging the gaping hole tarpin it. Today was still hard work but inside. I have central air and it was nice.
Stan
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Stan, God bless you. That's all I can say right now.
We are all in this together.
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dude i hate it for you... but if you are like me I just try to say... better me than someone without .. a. insurance and b. someone with no clue on what to do...
I feel like I'm tested everyday someone somewhere is just try'n to find out how much i can take.... yes it sucks... but you are safe home and i hope the kids if you have any are well... really what more can you ask for
Peace
pony
Sorry Stan!! Hate to hear about it. At least you know how to deal with these things, huh? Was ther anything you wanted to change about the new shop? Now's the time!!
Hang in there!
Good luck.
Quality, Craftsmanship, Detail
Sorry to hear that Stan . You had that looking good .
Geez Stan,
That REALLY sucks. At least the gyro wasn't in there at the time. Hope you have really good insurance.
Jon
Damn, Stan. That's a hard one.
Well, try to look at the bright side: you'll be gettin' back all those years of paying insurance premiums with a vengeance.
And maybe you can exercise a little 'poetic justice' and try to turn the tree that fell on the shop into a set of stairs in the new shop, if you didn't have to cut it up too small to get it outta there....
Dinosaur
A day may come when the courage of men fails,when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship...
But it is not this day.
Have you thought of getting someone to trim, prune, top, the rest of the trees before you incur a total loss?
stan... great ..... sorry about the damage...but no harm to you or yours... so we do what we do... fix it !
a few more storms and all the nasty trees will be gone ....
last damage resulted in a much nicer shop.... what do you have planned this time ?
I hate it for ya.
At least you were'nt inside this time!
The cupola seemed to survive with just a glancing blow, have it bronzed as a reminder.
Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
Thanks guys. I have fantastic insurance...so that part doesnt bother me. My shop doesnt need to be any bigger for me...just restored.
I flew in from Indiana and did an aerial survey at 11 a.m Friday. By Friday night the tree was removed...the gaping hole patched and tarped. Saturday was inside cleanup and what a relief from the heat because it has central air. I am back in business 6 a.m Monday morning. I have my contractor lined up to start the repairs in two weeks. This is nothing like last year. I was hit at home and my shop.
My thoughts and prayers go out to others with far worse problems than this little incident.
Here are some after the storm repairs. My license plate is my motivator. I will not be stopped. <G>
Stan
Egad, man, you must be part beaver to clear that mess so quickly.I hope the rest of the repairs go smoothly. Sphere's got a good point, maybe you should pull the cupola as a souvenir. I'm sure he could make you a really fancy replacement with copper cladding.Good luck.Leon Jester
Sorry to hear about that Stan.But - Like so many have already said - I'm glad no one was hurt. And I'm glad it wasn't your house.Hang in there.
To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder. [Louis L'Amour]
i feel for you stan.isn't that the new cupola you just built?
Stan,
Add me to the long list of those hoping for a fast, painless recovery of what I hope will be the last of these misfortunes...
PaulB
Wow Stan, a double whammy! That's truely a bummer. Best of luck with the rebuild.
On the other hand, you set a terrific example of grace under fire. You take it all in stride and I find that, as well as your stair work, inspirational.PJ
Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.
Stan sorry to hear about it,
Mother Nature sure has it in for your stair shop.
I commend you for your resilience , you seem to take it with an attitude better then most would muster.
Maybe this time you should have cloud design you one of those funky concrete domes?
Tolkien was right. It was an act of revenge from the "Ents".
The trees have been watching you haul their fallen into your shop - only to appear again as something rivalling their beauty.
Your work, your shop and its treed setting are all gorgeous. Thank-you and good-luck.
Stan
Well I guess you gotta do it again!
You and yours are OK, thats what matters. Your wife is probably a litte gun shy of the weather though.
You'll be able to do this one blind folded! :)
Doug
Sorry to hear of your loss. Bummer.
I knew you shouldn't have gone wiht the concentric circle, target, patern onthe shingles.
I think something less traditional. Perhaps more Danish modern would avoid future problems. Something along these lines:
Stan,
What can one say? I sure as hell don't know. . .
Glad your covered, glad your tite and above all glad you were not in there ;-).
Joe.
Sorry Stan, but at least no one was injured. Perseverence is a human trait, and I was yours is being tested. Good luck to you and yours. Nice setup, BTW.
If it wasn't for bad luck, Stan, you wouldn't have any luck at all. Maybe you should re-roof with 1" steel plate. Glad everyone is OK.
Beat it to fit / Paint it to match
Amazing how well the structure resisted.
Time to call Belgium I guess. ;)
Unbelievable! Sounds like you know how to tally the blessings and curses in adjacent columns before you sum your reaction... Leads to a healthy mind.
All I can say is may you be showered with even more blessings this time than you were last. Thoughts and prayers are with you my friend!
If we fail to catch a cosmic fish it may be a trillion years before the opportunity comes again
Gosh guys....I got tears reading those last posts. Please....in all seriousness...I am fine. Send your thoughts and prayers to others who are really in need. My little problem is just a nuisance. It just makes the good times that much better for me. I have the warmest feeling over this.
I was back in business today with just some flex ducts hanging down from the ceiling. I am not complaining one bit because those ducts were pumping chilled air into my meat locker I call a stairshop.
Life is so good.
God bless you all......
Edited 7/25/2005 8:56 pm ET by Stan Foster
Latest pictures.......I thank God for the strong back and will he has loaned to me. The license plate is my motivator.
Stan
So Stan.....
Are ya sure you didn't build that shop on top of an old Iroquois burial ground?
Be well my friend.
Egads!....Have you ever thought of just removing those trees?
Glad you and yours are OK.....
Pi has the right idea. Get an arborist to advise on pruning or removing some of the remaining trees -- before you get bored with this routine. ;-)
-- J.S.
And this idea coming from a tree hugger........We have lost so many power lines, garages from falling trees......In the midwest, when those storms come through, what do they take out? TREES.....We just had some storms come through the Cleveland area - 70mph winds ....We were watching our trees carefully.....So far, lucky....
Stan, can I recommend reinforced concrete? :)
Something able to take a good shot from a tree. Glad I'm not paying your premiums.
You sure there weren't any chainsaw marks on that tree prior to cleanup? Just want to make sure dw hasn't found an effective way to get you to come home from a gyro-fest ;)
jt8
The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers.
-- Walter Percy Chrysler
Edited 7/26/2005 1:39 pm ET by JohnT8
I think your onto something there. Kind of the point of my 'Danish Modern' joke.Being, for lack of other words, a devout agnostic I am not often convinced of messages hidden in events but given Mr.Fosters's sad history of building deconstruction by foliage and weather I might reasonably suspect that someone or something could be suggesting he build something more substantial.Like the robust security of walls and a roof made with several meters of reinforced concrete. Who knows? A quick survey of the disaster literature points out that, according to the WWW noise machine, massive geological disturbances, giant super-cells spawning huge tornadoes and huge electrical storms are predicted. In which case a well built bunker might become less a cause for laughter and much more a tangible asset.Who knows? Stan Foster may be a modern day Noah. He and his go on to write history while the rest of us go the way of the dinosaur.Of course if Mr.Foster fails to hear the call for more durable architecture ... Well, there might not be anyone left to build stairs for ... ever again.Anyone have any good bunker plans handy?
> Anyone have any good bunker plans handy?
How about buying a surplus diesel electric submarine -- like the Soviet foxtrot class? Dig a hole and bury it up to the conning tower, badda boom, you're ready for anything. ;-)
-- J.S.
So Stan has had his stair shop there for what 15 years and two trees hit his roof . . You want him to lay waste to the 2 acre wood that surounds his shop and run up his heat/AC bill just for a tree that would fall or not in his life time . Not to mention the ruination to a great setting . I wish I had trees like those in stans stair shop forrest.
Maybe not waste and ruination -- just get an expert opinion from an arborist and make an informed decision. It may be that a little trimming would buy him a lot of safety.
-- J.S.
Stay well Stan...and remember: that which doesn't kill us......makes us really ,really,really want......
to turn the tunes up...sigh, hang in.
Pooh said it best,"Oh bother!"
Edited to redirect to Stan....
"If 'tis to be,'twil be done by me."
Edited 7/29/2005 10:11 pm ET by Philter
Me thinks 'someone' has seen your work and is concerned that one day soon, you'll build a stairway to heaven and blow his whole gig.
Glad no one was hurt, as I always enjoy your posts and pics.
Jim
The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.- Fyodor Dostoyevski