How's the rain and snow Ron?

[Excaliber]

Hardly any rain for several days now, maybe a week. Overcast, threatening, light sprinkles from time to time, thats about it. Combined with the warm weather I think that's why the grass is waking up.

The THREAT of rain has been enough to stop my builder from coming out though, so the new garage is still just a foundation/sub floor.

[Gunner]

Originally Posted by Excaliber

The THREAT of rain has been enough to stop my builder from coming out though

As if builders ever need an excuse. Even in this economy, with contractors losing their gear and businesses, it's damn near impossible to get them to make a bid or follow through. We've been waving handfuls of money for several jobs since last spring and repeated rounds of calls just provoke yawns and no return calls. It took a year of intermittent attempts (= drop everything for a week trying to call, get bids from and follow up with, then quit in exhaustion for a month) to get a team in to do some pricey tile and stone work.

[Ron61]

Well we are still getting light rain but boy has the temperature dropped. This will sure lower the snow level. At least the wind has calmed down some. Just what we would need.Frozen trees and hard wind. I just heard they are stopping traffic at Fawndale now but didn't hear if they are letting them through with chains or not. Just down the street about 3 blocks there is a low place and it is flooded and they have the street sign out telling people to avoid it for now. Any bets on how long before one of these people run off into the ditch there. This place floods every time we have a hard rain, but this is the first time in 4 years that we have had enough rain to flood it.

Ron