Totally Unrelated Thoughts for Tuesday

Two Thoughts for Tuesday



As some of you already know, thanks to the Facebook fiend that my hubby is the new roof did go on this past week.  Now that we no longer are hearing the

BANG, BANG, POUND POUND, BANG, POUND things may get back on track around here.  OR NOT.

As a Realtor, I know a lot about roofing.  Not necessarily a fun or interesting subject, I know.  Pretty dull, as a matter of fact.  However, in the event of a hail storm that destroys thousands of homes in one ginormous swath it turns out to be helpful to know a bit about roofs.

My current frustrations with the having to put a new roof on my house is two fold.

1.   Fourteen years ago, the HOA of this neighborhood mandated that the roof HAD to be wood shake.

As the process of creating wood shingles and installing them are PRICEY, neighborhoods wanted to make sure that all the homes in the neighborhood had this expensive style of roof and there wouldn't be anyone with some crappy version of "god forbid" composition.  (say the word composition with resounding disgust in your voice).  This little by-law in all the Home Association Covenants was to keep the tacky, tacky cheapskates from desecrating the look of nice respectable neighborhoods with their low-end composition shingles. 

Then a few years later, after 1000's of subdivisions around Johnson County, Kansas had 10s of thousands of homes with wood shake roofs, the insurance industry said they wouldn't insure the roofs or if they did it would cost you up the wazoo.  Warning, Warning, Fire Hazzard!!!!

Remember the house four doors down from a previous post?
Wood shakes really make good tinder.

So, THEN we all got hit with huge surcharges and higher deductibles on our roofs.  In fact, the deductibles in some cases would pretty much have you paying for your new roof if there was a ....you guessed it...a hail storm.

As our entire neighborhood had their roofs demolished in April, the wood shake roofs are disappearing one by one.

So, no longer can the neighborhoods have rules to mandate wood shakes because... tsk tsk...they aren't safe.

Now the by-laws say....

IT HAS TO BE A HIGH DEFINITION SHINGLE TO MIMIC THE LOOK OF SHAKE AND BE WARRANTED FOR 50 YEARS OR MORE.

Oh, ppuuullllleeeezzzz...you just have to be kidding about this.   I live in Kansas.  Why in the hell do I need a 50 year or more warranty???? This roof will be cut to shreds in the next two years by hail. 

But still we picked a fiberglass shingle that "supposedly" sorta kind of resembles a wood shake roof with a lifetime warranty that will last as long as it takes for the next hail storm that throws baseball sized balls of ice onto our roof.

Warranted for Life....giggle, giggle, snort

The Good for the Day...Pounding has stopped.

The Bad for the Day..Actually for the last three days, storms have been going through.  What is the record for the shortest life span on a roof?

The Weird for the Day.....Kansas weather.



I was looking for a video about "roofs" when I happened to think about James Taylor's Up On the Roof.  Of course, that led me to also think of his song Fire and Rain.  Too bad, that song wasn't Fire, Rain and Hail.











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Now That Is Just Playing Dirty

April 4, 2011

Mother Nature:

GAME ON, Mother!

Couldn't take a little criticism pertaining to your "less than appropriate" dump of snow on my budded and flowered flora, huh? 

Seemingly, you and I are just not meant to be friendly this year.  My first note to you was friendly enough, I thought. I simply asked you to encourage Spring to be a little SPRING-like.

I will admit that my second letter was a tad firmer but I was hopeful that the pitiful picture of my deflowered Magnolia would elicit a little kindness from you.  But NO you chose retaliation, instead.  Really were the dropping temperatures (90 degrees  down to 43.... really??) gusting wind of 50 MPH, and the real nastiness on your part: the hail, necessary?   Did you really feel the need to bring Kansas City to it's knees? If that was your intent, WELL PLAYED, Mother.







OK, where do we go from here?  Now that you have done further damage to my plants and trees, are there any other mean spirited things up your sleeves?  What do you want from me?  I am totally prepared to grovel, if that would  make you happy.  At this point I am keeping a close eye on the sky. 

As you are aware you have already put me through a couple of tornadoes and yet I continue to try to make friends with you.  What do you want from me????

I am trying my best to be conciliatory and appease you but I am at a loss what exactly do you want?

Still trying to be pals,

Cheryl P.

PS The roof damage is on you!!!

The Good for the Day......No broken windows

The Bad for the Day....I want to get the garden started (sing to Pink's song)

The Weird for the Day....The Kansas City Chamber of Commerce says that one of the most asked questions they get from people that are not familiar with Kansas is, " How much like the movie the Wizard of OZ is Kansas?  The Chamber people aren't joking.  As I have said in the past and will say again, Idiocy is a growth industry.  (I see a lot of people getting rich in that line of work)