Braving the Storm

On Tuesday, September 7, we and Tropical Storm Hermine arrived at Canyon Lake. Our trip out was one of the worst driving experiences ever. As we passed through Sealy at about 8:30 am, you would have sworn it was 3:00 am it was so dark. We also saw a transformer on the roadside that would put many fireworks displays to shame. We got behind an eighteen wheeler for cover and followed her for quite a ways. Just as we were coming out of Sealy our builder called, just checking to see if we wanted to reschedule because of the weather. No chance we were going to do that after coming this far.

The main reason we were going out was to keep from holding the electrician up. The house was ready to be wired, and we needed to tell him where we wanted all the outlets and lights. When we got there, Laurie Mahoney had to call Randy, the electrician to get him to come out. I don't think he was planning to work that day, but hey, if we could get there from Houston he could come over for a little while.






As you can see from the pics, a plywood deck on the roof isn't completely waterproof. Laurie kept pulling up the Weather radar on her iPhone as we watched the eye of Hermine pass almost directly over us.









Even though it had only been a little over a week since our last trip, there had been good progress. The fireplace had been installed, and red and blue "pipes" running everywhere were signs the plumber had paid us a visit.












We walked the entire house (including garage and patio) pointing out where we wanted electricity, internet, cable TV and speaker connections. Ryan Mahoney, Laurie's son and employee would be installing the structured wiring. He mentioned, as we were spec'ing out the TV connection over the workbench in the garage, that in his home that was the second most watched TV location. We even have a TV drop on the patio, along with speaker wires for some flush mount speakers in the ceiling. I think we pushed our structured wiring allowance to the limit.


The weather on the ride back was not as bad as coming out was, but we still caught a lot of rain and some pretty eerie looking skies.