Monday I had decided to stay home to comfort the family. Toby was still frazzled and the kids hadn’t really seen me all weekend. We had missed ‘family day Sunday’. I walked by the front window and saw something on the carpet. I bent down to pick it up and saw that it was a piece of saturated drywall. I looked up and saw a horriffic sight: a new crack in the ceiling. There was no time to hesitate. I ran and got my tape measure and some wood. Since I was going to be working under a falling ceiling, I put on my hard hat. I used some plywood and some 2×6’s to support the ceiling and that relieved the immediate problem. My idea for the ‘permanent’ solution was to run a 2×10 above the window and support the drywall sheets. I got some 3 inch screws and big fender washers to tie everything together.
We now have a columnar support over the front window, and 6 – 8 foot long strips of plywood running along our family room ceiling.
