As you may know there was a very powerful hurricane that struck the south eastern tip of Louisiana just over a week ago.

@BicycleBuck and I happen to live not too far from where it made landfall, but luckily we got the western outer bands of the storm. Small cities just east of me like Thibodaux and Houma are devastated and still without electricity. Also to mention gas is scarce as well as food, but is ever slowly coming back. Trees, down poles, roofing, and fences are everywhere.

Im not going to post pictures to keep the owners privacy, but my home that I grew up in, the fence is gone and the roof is damaged and some large tree branches are down. Heartbreaking to see the fence that kept me safe and the trees I played under are now gone.

Where I live at in my newish modular home 30 miles away, I faired a lot better than others, which also makes me sad at the damage just 5 miles east of me and what could of been. The winds had to be over 80 to 100 MPH from the north west, at times I could feel the house shake and howl, the roof sounded like it was tearing off and can hear the roof tiles scrape along the roof and onto the ground.

The next morning on August 30th I got up to access if I still had a roof and all I lost was a lot of roof tiles, some of the skirt came undone or flew off, broken branches, and windswept trees. The west side of the house and garage is peppered with shredded leaves and the air is heavy of fresh mulch / grass smell.

The front right section of my roof was the hardest hit, I hammered back the tiles I could salvage. I been having problems with this area, and in fall I plan on scraping it all off to the wood and redo.

Lots of leaning or broken power poles, theres still about 90% of the population of lafourche and terrebonne is still out of lights

You can see a tree was uprooted and fell on that F-150!

There are plenty of National Guard convoys going down the highway in front of my house. I forgot my camera when there was a few Oshkosh Hemtts hauling fuel, water, and cargo... damn. Those things were awesome!

And thats my adventure of my 1st category 4 hurricane as a homeowner. I dont look forward to experiencing this anytime soon. I've weathered every storm that hit south Louisiana since I was in diapers for hurricane Andrew in 1992!

Out of all the storms I weathered, this is the most powerful hurricane I experienced and I wasn't even in the center of it! Gustav in 2008 and then Katrina in 2005 would be the other most powerful and damaging hurricanes I been in.

@gmporschenut-also-a-fan-of-hondas I'm alive.
I got electricity back on the 1st and cell phones yesterday morning. Still no internet so I'll be a while before I'm back to oppo. I hate typing and browsing on phone. It was a damn powerful hurricane. Winds were strong from the north west and could feel the whole house rattle. Faired alot better than the people east of me they have nothing left, it's awful. Missing alot of roof tiles and branches but no real damage. I'll post about it once I can get internet back

Painting the door trim is torture

Before:

Primed up before painting green.

My paint sprayer is no longer new lol.

The Graco paint sprayer did a fantastic job, if I ever had any issues is because there was air in the system, just squeeze again, prime, and paint.

Thankfully the 32oz cup allows the sprayer to cool down between fill ups, the shed is just big enough or I think it would of shut down. Half way painting it would get pretty hot to handle, but cools off quickly.

I think I mentioned it before, but clean up is easy, I only used water and it takes about 15 minutes. Then I oil the o-ring and screen fitting.
Used about 2.5 - 3 gallons of green paint to paint the shed. I'll be using the rest to paint the back of the garage.... of course i'll be pressure washing it 1st... ewww

See how it holds up and might just paint the whole garage.

For some car content I got a Red Pig!

Well not exactly, but I just tried it out and will make installing roof shingles so much easier and faster. Also pew pew pew

15 bundles of shingles. This is going to be a joy to bring all this up the ladder.

I have enough cap nails and roofing nails for a few houses I think

So much ammo!

The worst part of my roof. you can see a previously repaired section which weathered the hurricane. Then hammered broken shingles to cover the felt for the time being. I "fixed" the bottom left thats showing some felt. strange it didnt leak there.

Im always repairing this area, so im ripping it all out ( about 16 x 20') to the wood, put new felt and nail new shingles. Then a couple of other areas, but nothing as big as this area.

With a LEGO Porsche 911 to go along with my Berfday!

I'll build the Targa first, but I like the Turbo more.

Post LEGO cars... or not I'll make some cherry cheesecake later on.

Mostly wanted to post this Simpsons meme I stole from te webz

There's no excuse not to get vaccinated, your dumb 5g zombie ego is ruining other peoples lives. I swear if anyone questions why I wear a mask, their jaw will be in a cast.

Louisiana is in their 4th COVID wave, I thought it was still the first wave! No ICU beds available in my area, +20 new deaths today, school is starting Tuesday, idiots everywhere, etc etc...

I done my part to stay safe, even got vaccinated with the useless J&J vaccine apparently. Where's my reward? Nope, gotta suffer another year of people that dont listen.

@aremmes Torque for days... in the shop for months

@mr-ontop That takes balls to do.

The rear shocks on the Traxxas Blazer weren't acting like shock absorbers... so time for a rebuild!

New parts laid out, shock oil, cup for small parts and another for draining old oil

Yep, shock oil and dirt everywhere.

Only a tiny bit of oil was inside.

Put new seals, pistons, and cleaned everything up. Those tiny e clips are a pain to snap in place.

Refilled and reinstalled. Seemed the black cap at the bottom of the shock absorber body was loose and caused the leaks.

In SimCity 4

@musashi66 I do like that blue camo wrap

@wbizarre

Night Edition!

All this time I been driving a non-Night Edition vehicles!

@just-jeepin Axial does make overpriced stuff. Should of been around $600 as its just a new body, larger frame and tires. The rest is still from the 1:10 scale if im correct.

In 1:6 scale remote control form

Size comparisons. Yellow one is 1:24 scale. Costs around $130.
Red is the common 1:10 scale, like my Traxxas Chevy Blazer.
Then the green big boi is 1:6 scale for $1,000. I bet Traxxas is going to compete and make a huge RC truck.

https://www.horizonhobby.com/product/1-6-scx6-jeep-jlu-wrangler-4wd-rock-crawler-rtr/AXI05000.html

@houstonrunner easy solution

@his_stigness * holds onto all my gas engines

@essextee I dont see why a gas door needs an interior lever. It should open from the outside freely or have a push in clicky thing.

@facw my face burns just looking at that.

@taylor-martin It has Halo lights and LEDs everywhere, very 2020

I'll reveal my abandoned Ludicrous Luxury submission for some "horrible inspiration" .
Its monstrous gas guzzling V8 and high engineering time to make it comfy and driveable was too much compared to the Volvo/Jaguar wagon im making.

In beamNG, the hood chrome "horns" fall off at the slightest bump It was supposed to be some Russian Luxury knockoff