Sunday, 25 February 2007 Saturday night was a sleepless night. Having the tarps 10 feet (at the ridge height) off the ground means that they catch a lot of wind. There was not that much wind that night (about 3 – 6 mph according to weather.com) but it was enough to stress me out and keep me from sleeping. When we got home from church at 10:45a, this is what I saw.
Compare the above photo to the one below that was taken a couple of weeks ago at Pop’s 60th birthday.
Was I worried? You bet. Weather.com said that the wind was about 15 mph at that time. I finished tying down the other tarps. The big canvas ones were doing ok, but some other plastic ones were flapping around. By 1 pm, I could see that the truss holding white tarp down was being lifted and buffetted and straining at the joints. The last thing I wanted was for the truss to come apart and go through my neighbor’s roof or hit a person walking by or land on a car. Also, when the tarp ballooned up it was being pressed against the chimney and was melting to the chimney. So I ended up cutting down the tarp. I wasn’t going to risk climbing up on the trusses to undo the tarp and have it catch wind and knock me off the roof. All in all, it was a long work day for me as I finished up the work at about 6:45 pm. Long weekend. What is the answer to the question in the title of this post? As of now, it is still rain, but wind is a very close second.