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[dragonlady7]

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am of course wide awake at 5am attempting to think through how tf i’m going to commence salvage operations at the farm. I took today off work after all and I’m going to drive out there today.

It’s supposed to rain tomorrow, possibly.

I don’t know what to do. The building materials are all wrapped up on pallets, sitting next to the barn. I do want to move them out to the building site, I hate having them right in the middle of the barnyard. I’d need someone to do that for me, I cannot drive the tractor with forks.

Once there, I need to unfasten the pallets, pull the tarps off, and unpile the items. I know the sheets of plywood will have to be unstacked and at least tilted to let them dry, then re-stacked once they’re not so damp. A full sheet of plywood– well, like 25 of the sheets are 3/4″ thick. I don’t know if I can lift one alone. Normal plywood, I know I can move a sheet on my own, but the thick stuff, I don’t know if I even can. This may be futile to attempt. But I have to unstack them, they’re wet through surely.

I want to take the foam insulation and put it upstairs into the barn. I can use my car to move that, it’s not heavy, and then carry it up myself. That’s fine. I expect that stuff will be fine, provided it didn’t get damaged by debris.

But I know I also bought rolls of batting. How was that packaged? I don’t know. If the batting is wet…. well it can go up in the barn loft, and hopefully bake dry, but it may not actually do well. I’ll have to see. That may need replacing.

If it’s soaked through it may also be too heavy for me to lift.

There are doors and windows in that pile somewhere. I don’t know how they were packaged. If they come in packaging it’s surely damaged. Probably being wet won’t hurt a door, but I think they’re steel and will rust if I don’t at least get them out and wipe them down.

I really have nowhere to put them once I’ve dried them, all these things. I need to hope I can just get long enough rain-free to get them mostly dry before I re-pile them. I don’t know. I need this construction project to fucking happen, and I can’t do that until I get the last delivery from the lumber yard, and, bonus, now the delivery truck cannot cross the damaged bridge, so there is no way to get that final delivery of lumber from the outside world to the building site.

The bridge is very much not something I can have the slightest effect upon whatsoever. But a great many things depend on it. A car can cross it, but I do not know whether a tractor can, and certainly an outside delivery driver in a large truck will not.

So anyway. I can’t do this salvage stuff by myself and I need help and I don’t know who’ll have time to help me. And I don’t know how on earth I’m going to package it back up. Maybe if I get some spare wood pallets I can set up more storage around the building site. It doesn’t help that there are tractor implements that were left there that the first lumber delivery blocked in so they can’t be removed, so for the duration of this construction 1) nobody can use the tractor implements and 2) they can’t be moved out of the way. But this is also not a thing I can affect in any way at all.

Anyway. I should still be in bed, because I’m not ready to just get up and get into the car, but I also can’t sleep, and there’s no point lying there fretting. (Your picture was not posted)

Comments

[harpers_child]

hug?

I've done my fair share of cleaning up after a flood. If you have specific questions, ask and either I'll know the answer or I know someone who does.

I'll keep my fingers crossed there's less damage than there could be and more is salvageable than anyone thought.