It's a good thing he moved the rig

Here is our RV, parked in the RV park in TX that got flooded.  It's a good thing Larry moved it when he did.  He drove by the next evening to see if he could take the rig back but he couldn't even get close to the RV park.  He said the nearby "creek", which is less than a mile from his RV park, usually has barely enough water to float a canoe.  That sign you see in the photo below is about 12' high so you know that water is way over it's banks.   He said the other two major RV parks in the Dallas area flooded before his park did.  A week later, the road to his RV park is still closed. Fortunately he found another RV park with an open spot... the last one.

Texas Flooding

Larry's RV Park, where he is staying near Dallas, is in danger of flooding.  In fact, he heard that this morning some people had to be rescued due to high water on the other side of the park, and it's not that big of a park.  He got word while he was at work this morning and they let him come home long enough to secure his stuff and move the RV to higher ground. He will be roughing it in a Walmart parking lot for a day or two, until the threat is passed.  

In the meantime, I've been talking to quite a few Texans with various sorts of storm damage like blown off shingles, trees down, leaks in their homes, and flooding.  It makes me appreciate when things go well, like having some warning to move the RV before it floats down the swollen creek... And knowing Larry won't float away with it during the night.

A New Chapter

Our blog has been dormant for a long time.  This is a tell-tale sign that life had become repetitive.  There wasn't much newsworthy going on and then I got out of the habit of posting altogether.  Facebook probably had something to do with this too.  It's time to change resurrect the blog.  Why?  Because life is not repetitive anymore.

Almost two years ago, I was told my job of 4 years was being moved to Rochester, NY.  They kept me on for nearly two years when I finally said "Enough".  In the meantime, I prepared for another career along with Larry who also needed a change.  (That's another whole story.)

We are both now independent adjusters working primarily in the catastrophic claims adjusting world.
We began with getting licensed and then studying for and passing several certification courses.   Larry started in June of last year with a deployment to Minnesota for several weeks.  He came home for a couple weeks and then headed for Michigan.  After that he came home for a couple weeks and then answered a call for a deployment in Dallas.  That was in October and he's still there today.  He's technically working in a non-catastrophic environment with no known end in sight.

After I left my job at the end of January, I waited only 3 weeks before getting a call to work the winter storms as an in-office adjuster in Atlanta.  I'm still here.

Right now, Larry and I both work 60 hours a week.  Being only two hours from home allows me to run home on Sundays.  Larry made a quick visit home a few weeks ago but that was his first visit since October.

More posts to come!