Well, fuck... (a 2020 hurricane season story)

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Shovelcut wrote:

Turns out the trailer for rent was a scam so I was in that shit motel up until 3 days ago

Oh man salt in the wound. That's terrible. I've been lurking on your story, and hope things work out ok.

Thanks for the update, Exile. Sounds like things could have been much better, but with power restored they could also be at least a little worse. Stay safe over there.

oof jeez just caught up with your situation. crazy times but yeah i know what its like with water damage when we got flooded out a few times here and had like 100k insurance claim with the damages hope everything pans out for ya though stay safe!

"WINTER IS COMING"

Inhabitants of Westeros: oh noez we doom

Residents of the Gulf Coast: PRAISE

Hope you're safe and that you'll get a chance to breathe soon.

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crunkatog wrote:

"WINTER IS COMING"

Inhabitants of Westeros: oh noez we doom

Residents of the Gulf Coast: PRAISE

Hope you're safe and that you'll get a chance to breathe soon.

You never fail to put a smile on my face. Ty :)

Welp, a bit of progress has been made and the house is literally on the side of the road. Got lucky and met a contractor that lives in my neighborhood and he cut me a deal since I'm still waiting for my fucking insurance to cut a check.



❤

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DarthSki44 wrote:

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Shovelcut wrote:

Turns out the trailer for rent was a scam so I was in that shit motel up until 3 days ago

Oh man salt in the wound. That's terrible. I've been lurking on your story, and hope things work out ok.

Thanks! I somehow missed your post last time I checked. ♥




2020 be like:


lol

That's a lovely ... tract of land ya got there

May I suggest selling the sh*t out of it and finding a plot somewhere above sea level.

An old Native American legend holds that the Mississippi is the last remnant of Unktegila, a vast writhing serpent, whose fits of anger at the slightest insult sent floods to destroy everything within 100 miles. The Mississippi-Ohio-Missouri valley system is lined with the ruins of dozens of kingdoms destroyed by the caprices of the Serpent and his/her children. Oxbows lie like deep scars in the silt where Unktegila's coils lashed them.

Finally, the thunderbirds of the four cardinal directions had had enough and conspired to bring about a deep freeze so dire that it froze the watersheds and imprisoned Unktegila for three months every year. (Historians believe this is an Indigenous explanatory model for the Little Ice Age from ~1350 to 1750.)

Global climate change with the rise of industry has perhaps inadvertently undone the padlocks on Unktegila's cell...

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crunkatog wrote:

That's a lovely ... tract of land ya got there

May I suggest selling the sh*t out of it and finding a plot somewhere above sea level.

I've a feeling this is a case of, 'if they could, they would'. Because otherwise you've somehow implied Shovelcut and anyone else caught in that shitstorm is somehow too stupid to think of something this obvious. Not cool. Check your privilege, as a certain dearly departed Exile used to say.

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Foreverhappychan wrote:

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crunkatog wrote:

That's a lovely ... tract of land ya got there

May I suggest selling the sh*t out of it and finding a plot somewhere above sea level.

I've a feeling this is a case of, 'if they could, they would'. Because otherwise you've somehow implied Shovelcut and anyone else caught in that shitstorm is somehow too stupid to think of something this obvious. Not cool. Check your privilege, as a certain dearly departed Exile used to say.

ok yeah I had that scold coming. I figured few people would actually literally read into what I said as "oh you should move, hon" *takes drag off cigarette perched on impossibly long holder*

*<:^)

No telling about those FEMA guys though, seems like they've been literally saying just that to people's faces this century

For what it's worth I've publicly admitted many times that I'm pretty dumb. :P

Here we go with round 2, definitely not in a good spot for this one so it's gonna be sketchy. Scott, Louisiana this time around. One of the cleaning ladies said the hotel has a generator so we should have some power if the lines go down.

Again, good luck to any other exiles out there in the affected areas. Stay safe! ❤