07-24-2016, 12:16 PM
Today I surveyed our farm to assess the damage from Darby.
I paused... and saw one denuded HPM electrical conduit tarp frame, it's shiny silver tarp having been carefully removed and stowed on Friday.
Although exhausted from other endeavors I gazed at the galvanized skeleton, pumped my fist towards the sky and proclaimed, "We will rebuild!"
I wasn't going to let some second-class disappointment of a tropical storm put a damper on the human spirit. I removed the tarp, and the tarp balls from our shipping container and REBUILT the Puna beauty back to it's former glory.
No, it wasn't easy. There weren't enough tarp balls. I had to summon my inner MacGyver and substitute cable ties. Some of the cable ties weren't long enough! I had hit the cable tie wall. Then it dawned on me that I could daisy chain multiple cable ties together to make one long cable tie... It was the stuff of legends.
It might be wonky. It might be ugly. It might even be unsafe. But damnit, it's there. Protecting our used cars from the irritating drizzle falling from the same sky that Darby failed to conjure any legacy.
In the eternal struggle of Man versus nature...today... Man won.
I paused... and saw one denuded HPM electrical conduit tarp frame, it's shiny silver tarp having been carefully removed and stowed on Friday.
Although exhausted from other endeavors I gazed at the galvanized skeleton, pumped my fist towards the sky and proclaimed, "We will rebuild!"
I wasn't going to let some second-class disappointment of a tropical storm put a damper on the human spirit. I removed the tarp, and the tarp balls from our shipping container and REBUILT the Puna beauty back to it's former glory.
No, it wasn't easy. There weren't enough tarp balls. I had to summon my inner MacGyver and substitute cable ties. Some of the cable ties weren't long enough! I had hit the cable tie wall. Then it dawned on me that I could daisy chain multiple cable ties together to make one long cable tie... It was the stuff of legends.
It might be wonky. It might be ugly. It might even be unsafe. But damnit, it's there. Protecting our used cars from the irritating drizzle falling from the same sky that Darby failed to conjure any legacy.
In the eternal struggle of Man versus nature...today... Man won.