Thursday, August 29, 2024

Coffee!!! And Updates

 





This morning, we got a very welcome message -- the wheel claim on the truck has finally been approved! Discount Tire will reimburse our $500 deductible, but the insurance company will be covering the rest, minus a 20% depreciation discount on some parts (another boooo...but resigned sigh). At any rate, most of the costs we have been absorbing for months will finally be covered. 
     Which is nice.


Another interesting thing happened today: a long rain/hailstorm that left more than an inch of pellets on our porch. Fortunately, we don't seem to have had much damage -- one of the benefits of a metal roof. Our garden is on downhill status, anyways. 
     I checked with a gardening friend on the Flats, and they didn't get any hail -- or rain, for that matter. Not a drop. Go figure.

1 comment:

Jeannie said...

The unusual high rain falls and weird weather anomalies are probably being caused by the Hunga Tonga volcanic eruption January 15th 2022. In one day, it blasted 15% more water into the atmosphere. The extra water has been circling the southern hemisphere and has now reached the north causing all sorts of changes. It's a shame though that all that water can't find its way to my garden.

https://www.nasa.gov/earth/tonga-eruption-blasted-unprecedented-amount-of-water-into-stratosphere/

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