Roofing

 When my roof began to leak in the garage, my brother was on it instantly.

He had a roofing company here giving him an estimate like two days later.   

I didn't expect them to work on it for awhile, given the weather and time of year.  But they arrived yesterday and stripped the roof of old roofing.  

Today they're up there removing some rotted plywood (only two sheets thankfully).  The rotted edges were above where it had been leaking in the garage.

They're nice young men (I don't judge age very well).  I am rather in awe of such folk who work so hard in all sorts of weather..   Like the electric company folks out trying to get trees off downed wires, repair and replace lines and transformers and even install new utility poles, all while people clamor they do so faster.

Like my brother and his crew, trying to build things, often in mud and pouring rain and under severe deadlines and continual pressure.

I'm very grateful to be getting a beautiful roof.  I'm so lucky I don't even know how to write this.

Last night, I had a skylight in the garage.   It's where a vent was, which will be replaced.  Hole is covered by waterproof wrap that covered the entire roof after the old shingles were gone.  It's what they put under roofing now I think.  Yesterday the weather was great.  Today it is supposed to rain all day.

There are still a lot of people, even in this county, without power, from the storm.   In Salem and in Portland, there are far more still without power, as crews work round the clock to remove downed trees and limbs across lines, replace transformers that blew and even utility poles.  Many folks remain without internet due to same trouble, cable lines down or damaged.  Texas though....oh gosh, that's another story and what they are going through.  So many there without power, in near zero temps but its not because of trees destroying lines and transformers.  They're power grid is a mess and badly managed.