Sandy Fever

A couple of weeks ago Sandy moseyed on by the house. She left us copious amounts of rain, oodles of downed twigs, and one large branch which decided to visit our roof and gutter on the way down. Fortunately we kept power during the whole event - which made me happy since I didn't have to manually empty the sump.

Here's the temporary swamp. This area always goes mushy when it rains a lot. At some point we should figure out whether we can direct the water any better. At least it's in the very back corner of the yard.

The branch. I had to put the blue bucket underneath the gutter so too much dirt wouldn't wash away. 

Branch + house = broken stuff. The gutter seems happier now, with it's silly grin. Just a little drooly.

$125 later, our roof guy replaced a few tiles and bent the gutter back. Our other options were: whole new copper gutter or just a few new feet of copper gutter. At $25/foot we weren't too interested in getting any new gutter installed. Also, new copper is very shiny, so the house would look very odd for at least a couple of years if we only got a few feet installed. So here's the original gutter, just hammered back in shape.

Not too bad. We've been living here for over three years now and have had blizzards, wind storms, tropical storms, and numerous power outages and have filed zero claims for the insurance company. They really should be dropping our rate!

(Here's hoping this post doesn't jinx us!)