Have you ever noticed how in any story, there's always someone who gets the short end of the stick? Like in the show Prison Break, it's the nurse/love interest of the main character. Every season, she gets shafted. 1st season - everyone escapes but her. 2nd season - she gets taken hostage by the evil conglomerate known as the company. 3rd season - she gets beheaded. I'm sure you're picking up the pattern.
Another example of folks getting the shaft is the tale of the 3 little pigs. Think for a second about how much we know about many fairy tale characters - we know the entire life story of Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White... Even the villains get a good deal of character development. But not in the 3 little pigs. You've got 3 unnamed pigs that are derided for their diminutive size from the beginning. Then, you get this quickie run-down of residential construction techniques that came straight out of the masons propaganda - anything but brick is weak sauce, blah, blah, blah. Brick can take anything, blah, blah, blah. Then they bring in this wolf to show just how weak are the other building materials. They even go so far as mocking the wolf - ooh, here comes the big, bad wolf... my peach fuzz goatee is stronger than you... Obviously, the masonry lobbyists are calling the shots because the straw and the sticks get blown away but the brick house remains pristine.
Well, two weeks ago we learned that the wolf's name was Ike and when he huffed and puffed he might not have blown the house down, but he knocked out the power for more than 2 weeks. Touché.
Now that the power has been restored we can give a quick update - a few leaky windows/door and some failed flashing around the chimney were about all that happened to the house. Almost all of the damage this far north happened because trees came down. Thankfully, ours fell well away from the house. So for us here at l'Hotel Ellis, business is back to usual. And I'm sure you will all be pleased to know that we have won the coveted award for largest debris pile in the neighborhood. (Don't worry, they said that it might be a month or two before it gets picked up so you all have plenty of time to come and see it for yourselves.)
1 month ago
2 comments:
Looks like fun! :) We're very glad that the house is brick quand-meme, so that the little leaks are all that Ike could do to you. No flooding and floating down the street, though? That's too bad :)
That's quite a pile of twigs. You could build several little pigs' houses out of that.
Very glad that all is back to normal and that everyone was safe!
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