Staying home this weekend

I wonder just how many roofers will be calling to do a free inspection today. I know Denver is a big city but I didn't think we had that many roofing contractors out there. I started answering the phone by saying If you are calling about the roof, it is concrete tile and it's fine.

I got lucky and found a Ameri-lite dealer on the way into town. They have the lids I need without having to pull mine first. They also have a pair of MaxxAir vent covers that I'll get too. After watching a few youtube videos I realized it would have been faster to replace the lids than tape them up.

Weather yesterday was in freaky mode again. It started by dropping a tornado on a campground at 8500 ft. I don't remember many tornadoes at altitude, luckily no one was hurt. Bellaire lake has some nice dispersed camping around it as long as you don't mind the bears. We have also seen moose around there.

With the Mothers day snow and the storms since there are a number of camp grounds closed this weekend. Call first before you make the drive.

We are staying home this weekend, but because of a different type of damage -- brain damage. I forgot to make a reservation someplace and now all the good places to go near Tampa, FL are full up. :(

Sorry about the messed-up weekend plans and the broken vent covers, Jim, but I'm glad it wasn't worse. It could have been SO much worse!

I'm up in FoCo and though we didn't get hail yesterday, we got it about two weeks ago. $2000 in damage to the tow rig, but only popped holes in two of our vent covers. I'm going to temporarily throw some duct tape over them before we head up to Glendo for what's bound to be a rainy weekend. Oh well - it's a weekend away from home!

Isn't hail fun! Our TT was beat up pretty good a few years ago, too. At the time, we had it parked on a seasonal spot and we just happened to be there that weekend. Good thing, too as it also shattered both vent covers. After replacing the covers, I installed Maxxairs over both to add an additional layer of protection.

I also remember the Colorao hail storms. We lived in Colorado Springs for 4 years and I remember two storms bad enough they had to get the snow plow trucks out to clear the roads.

Actually we were on I 70 heading in to Denver when it started. All we could see a head of us was a huge wall cloud with lots of rotation. I was lucky to get to the right but couldn't get to a exit. The radio reported 2 in hail heading towards us so I switched on the 4x4, found a hole in the fence and took a field to a side street.In minutes it was loud that we were shouting to be heard, visibility was so bad that people were stopping in the streets and sitting there. Once home it got worse and we were moving stuff away from the windows thinking they were going to get broken.

All in all we were lucky with just a few dimples on the trucks and a pair of shutters to replace on the house. Some of the neighbors siding looks like it was hit with buck shot. There were six tornados south of us and more east but the hail did most of the damage.

I saw that on weather channel.. wow, scary stuff!