Water management

Chris, our pool guy, and his helper were at the house today to figure where the coping needed to go. They had a laser on their side, painting a dot on the wall that Chris was measuring from.

That was after the rain. During the rain (2 inches? more?), I met with the gas guy, who was trying to figure where the line would go for the cook top, all the while talking with Matt and Steve, the electricians.

Matt was back from the wedding of his son, Dennis, and took all our little changes in the last two weeks in stride.

But also during the rain: I copied an extra set of house plans at Office Max, despite a half-hour power outage there and island-wide. I got stuff at Walgreen's (as long as I was at that end of the island) even though waterspouts near the 7-Mile Bridge had knocked everybody's computers out (they could only take cash, and the E-crew was driving down from Miami), and sprinted home at maybe 5 m.p.h. with no traffic signals but a half a foot of water in every street -- except ours.

By the time I got back to the house, there were two roof leaks -- but after pulling a few boards off Mr. B figured out where they came from.

Trust him to get to it.