I know I’ve been posting a lot of these thunder storm and wild rain downpour videos. I tend to get a lot of search hits for the specific areas and dates though, so I will continue to do so. People seem to be interested in it for personal reasons, or perhaps to show friends, or insurance agents.
Anyways this storm on June 30th, 2009 was pretty intense. It came in 4 waves in this area, so it seemed more like 4 separate thunder storms. Unfortunately the house did not get out unscathed in this one, the built in gutter gave way and leaked water into the walls which managed to spot drywall on the top floor ceiling, and additionally the walls on the first and second floor around the window frames which are right under that gutter got wet as well, peeling some of the drywall tape on the joints by the window frames. Thunderstorm rain always seems to be so much more intense than regular storm rain. I guess all heck just breaks loose in the sky and results in massive downpour.
I didn’t notice this was happening until I saw water dripping down the window blinds behind my computer monitor. When I went upstairs the ceiling was spotting and wet up there in a couple of sheets that extent parallel to the window.
I’ve been trying to get a hold of someone all day to come out and fix or at least temporarily patch it but I could not get a hold of one single person. Possibly because the holiday weekend and all, most ‘make our own schedule’ types are taking the rest of the week off.
I’m not a ladder guy myself, and becoming a quadriplegic for a stupid gutter is not going to be my demise. I called a local rental company and I can get a 35′ boom arm lift for the entire weekend for about 250 delivered, so I’ll probably do that and fix it myself, safely.
I also manufactured a ‘low budget pole cam’ so I could get a look up into the gutters, it worked out pretty well, good enough for me to see where the problem was. Also the soffits in that area are in terrible shape, even more so after that storm, so I may be rebuilding my sofits as well if I have all the tools to do that, my budget is pretty thin at the moment.
Anyway, here is the video, enjoy.. at 1:35 I got the camera to focus right on the rain itself, really impressive downpour.
Here are those additional pictures of the water damage
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