Well...damn it!!! 😩

[Forgetful Coyote]

So many memories at this place.. so many lessons taught to me by my pap and his friends here..
So many fun times for generations of my family going back to 1929 when my great grandpap built the house and the pine & tobacco plantation that it sits on and the 14 acre lake out in the back yard ...
And now damn near the whole top floor is wrecked.

That's my uncle, not my dad, in this goofy hat my brother gave him.. and yours truly with the freshly harvested timber rattler(youngins had already cut the tail off soon as I shot it lol...to make a necklace out of), decked out in my tacticool Carhartt with custom mag pouch

ETA: accidentally added a old wrestling match picture where I won county champ..but whatever

 

[Milf Dots]

My heart goes out to you and yours. Sad.

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[91Eunozs]

Houses can be rebuilt… And memories last as long as they’re shared.

 

[Mike Casselton]

I'm saddened to see that. Get that place rebuilt and keep making memories there.

 

[mosin46]

beautiful home. where?

 

[mrdrar]

Sucks.

 

[mvphilly]

Sorry for the loss but that should and will be rebuilt along with the memories.What an awesome place!!!

 

[Sniperwannabee]

beautiful home. where?

GA

 

[Forgetful Coyote]

GA

Soperton to be exact.

 

[Ronws]

God bless you for the good memories, which are more important than the timber. And good luck with the rebuild. And don't let any of your kin name their daughters Helene.

 

[Eostech]

Sucks but as long as everyone is alive and well things can always be repaired or replaced.

 

[Aftermath]

ETA: accidentally added a old wrestling match picture where I won county champ..but whatever

 

[Huskydriver]

Aftermath of Helena?

 

[DarnYankeeUSMC]

As the philosopher Garp said, What are the odds of that happening again?

 

[jpjulian]

The neighborhood where we winter was pretty well rendered unlivable by flood surge. We lost nothing personally but the full time residents there lost a great deal. Sorry to see all of your damage.

 

[Ronws]

As the philosopher Garp said, What are the odds of that happening again?

Read that book and saw the movie a few times. Robin Williams at his best. As well as John Lithgow as one of the early trannies.

 

[Forgetful Coyote]

Aftermath of Helena?

Yes sir, correct.
Least the porch appears to be untouched, I suppose... It's brand new. Me, my brother and pap rebuilt it from baseboards on up just a few years ago.

Pap at least doesn't seem to be too concerned. He was more glad if anything that his shops unscathed along with the $40k lift that sits inside it(he's a mechanic).

Thankfully no one was home during the storm. He and my stepmom were doing a driving trip out to Yellowstone and on down the west Coast. Needless to say that vacation has now been cut short and I'm waiting on them to make their way back here to GA to start helping with cleanup and repairs.
Mucho trabajo dificil es proxima..

Any of my fellow 'hiders get hammered by Helene? My prayers to anyone affected... I sure ain't looking forward to what's about to be a bitch of a job, but oh well, anything and then some for my pap!

I'm sure some of y'all in Florida have seen/are seeing a lot worse!
@Mike Casselton I take it(or at least hope) you and yours didn't take too much losses/damage?

 

[theLBC]

wow. hoping they get through this...

 

[Forgetful Coyote]

wow. hoping they get through this...

Thanks
We'll get through it. Just gonna be a bitch of a job lol... I fckn hate dealing with dead trees, lightning-killed trees, cutting them down, etc.. and I grew up on a pine plantation! Regardless, to this day it wracks my nerves having to cut down a 70+ foot pine that's been hollowed out by lightning or is otherwise dead but still standing. Done it more times than I can remember, without incident, but all it takes is one(incident), and your ass is grass!

On the bright side, he already raked in the $$$ when he went ahead and clearcut about 1500 acres of the property like 2 years ago(hadn't been clearcut in ~40 some odd years, way before I was born)...

 

[Forgetful Coyote]

Driveway entrance
Expecting ~2 weeks without power..

 

[Ronws]

Yes sir, correct.
Least the porch appears to be untouched, I suppose... It's brand new. Me, my brother and pap rebuilt it from baseboards on up just a few years ago.

Pap at least doesn't seem to be too concerned. He was more glad if anything that his shops unscathed along with the $40k lift that sits inside it(he's a mechanic).

Thankfully no one was home during the storm. He and my stepmom were doing a driving trip out to Yellowstone and on down the west Coast. Needless to say that vacation has now been cut short and I'm waiting on them to make their way back here to GA to start helping with cleanup and repairs.
Mucho trabajo dificil es proxima..

Any of my fellow 'hiders get hammered by Helene? My prayers to anyone affected... I sure ain't looking forward to what's about to be a bitch of a job, but oh well, anything and then some for my pap!

I'm sure some of y'all in Florida have seen/are seeing a lot worse!
@Mike Casselton I take it(or at least hope) you and yours didn't take too much losses/damage?

Si, mucho trabajo dudo.

 

[Forgetful Coyote]

Did I mention I absolutely hate dealing with big ass trees?
Because I sincerely can't stand it. It feels sketchy as hell every damn time.

And that don't even begin to account for the red bugs and other annoyances it can come with.

 

[wvfarrier]

Just damn!!!

 

[rockn30809]

I'm a couple hours north of you outside Augusta. We got hit hard up here. Such a tremendous amount of loss all over from this storm. Stay safe cleaning up. Trees are sketchy as fuck when they are laying on a structure.

 

[Forgetful Coyote]

I'm a couple hours north of you outside Augusta. We got hit hard up here. Such a tremendous amount of loss all over from this storm. Stay safe cleaning up. Trees are sketchy as fuck when they are laying on a structure.

Can say that again. Enough to drive a man to alcohol and other substances.
Never fails to make my hair stand up and toes curl up every time we drop one of those behemoths. Done it since I was a small child and I've accepted that shit just ain't for me, idk how lumber workers do it.

Even as a gray haired old man, my dad makes it look easy. He's always had a cold blooded streak that I've admired(and somewhat feared) since I can remember though. So many of my millennial/gen Z counterparts have such arrogance compared to their ancestors, I think they've simply never gotten to see y'all old timers when the going gets tough.

I remember me and my buddy Hayden were baling hay down in Cairo, GA with his dad(6'6" giant USAF C130 veteran pilot and then Delta airlines pilot)... I couldn't have been older than 10 or 11. We were finishing up for the day, dead middle of a South GA summer, screaming hot. He pulled up to this rusty 55 gallon barrel, told us to tag team it into the back of the truck. Soon as we tried grabbing the thing, it burned blisters into our hands sizzling our skin off. After fumbling with it and burning our hands to hell, we admitted defeat to him. He got out and slung it in the truck one- handed, muttering something along the lines of "idk how y'all nancies are gone make it without us". And to this day, I think he might've been right
But then I think back on some of the snake infested drained lake beds that they sent us into barefoot, but wouldn't dare step in themselves...I think we'll be ok.

I may not benchpress 400 or sling concrete like it's a feather, but I have went toe to toe with a water moccasin using nothing but a weed eater and came out unscathed.

 

[Snipe260]

Yes sir, correct.
Least the porch appears to be untouched, I suppose... It's brand new. Me, my brother and pap rebuilt it from baseboards on up just a few years ago.

Pap at least doesn't seem to be too concerned. He was more glad if anything that his shops unscathed along with the $40k lift that sits inside it(he's a mechanic).

Thankfully no one was home during the storm. He and my stepmom were doing a driving trip out to Yellowstone and on down the west Coast. Needless to say that vacation has now been cut short and I'm waiting on them to make their way back here to GA to start helping with cleanup and repairs.
Mucho trabajo dificil es proxima..

Any of my fellow 'hiders get hammered by Helene? My prayers to anyone affected... I sure ain't looking forward to what's about to be a bitch of a job, but oh well, anything and then some for my pap!

I'm sure some of y'all in Florida have seen/are seeing a lot worse!
@Mike Casselton I take it(or at least hope) you and yours didn't take too much losses/damage?

Prayers for the recovery and rebuilding the home

 

[Forgetful Coyote]

Prayers for the recovery and rebuilding the home

Never seen a storm like it in my lifetime... And I've watched as those trees bended to an unimaginable degree multiple times, countless of them hollowed out by a lightning hit, etc ..nothing quite like this tho.
Helene was a hammer

Some of y'all in less wooded areas may not realize it but it's true, it hollows them out and leaves em standing dead