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lilyofcourse · My spirit animal is a pink flamingo.

Today is Tuesday. Again.

flan327 · Itty bitty's Grammy

Today we vote.

flan

Southern_Belle · Nothing's Impossible

I don't want to go to work today. Whineeeee.

I know what to do_sometimes · Frozen Sucks!

I'm Up!!!!!!!!!!!!!

lilyofcourse · My spirit animal is a pink flamingo.

Yuck.

That is all.

flan327 · Itty bitty's Grammy

Rainy & cold outside.

flan

TrudyML · Guru

I am soaked! Ugh!

Fort Worth Mom · Mod/Penguin lover/Princess!

Scully got me up at 3:45 am. for her first bottle. She just ate again, and should be ready for a nap soon.

Sunny and cool here. High of 73 today.

Have a great Tuesday, everyone! smile

TrudyML · Guru

Scully!

Tinydancer · Guru

Rain and more rain...

just Czech · Give Me Grand's!

Sunshine and warm today! Yay! After 10 days of dreariness, the sun is a wonderful sight.

DGS mowed the lawn last evening for the second time. Wow, did it need to be mowed!

I still haven't found a pattern I want to make yet. Hmm...

Hope you all have a great Tuesday, wet or dry. :)

FNW · Guru

Cloudy today. Draining the pool after last night's storm. Golf ball sized hail and thunderstorms. 1.25 inches. Ugh. More coming.

Lexxy · My dog name is Sasha, too!

FNW wrote:
Cloudy today. Draining the pool after last night's storm. Golf ball sized hail and thunderstorms. 1.25 inches. Ugh. More coming.

You got hail? We just got lots of thunder & torrential rain. But it is hail season.

FNW · Guru

We got a ton of hail. Pretty good sized. Two different storms brought it. Not as bad as what we got 6 years ago, but still impressive.

Lexxy · My dog name is Sasha, too!

I feel lucky now. It must have missed our area. Otherwise my phone would be ringing off the hook with hail damage claims.

Divine Geek · Guru

I hate today. Going for chili cheese dogs and French fries for lunch - that should help

FNW · Guru

Yeah. We were saying the roofers were rubbing their hands together while the insurance agents were pulling their hair out.

Lexxy · My dog name is Sasha, too!

Divine Geek wrote:
I hate today. Going for chili cheese dogs and French fries for lunch - that should help

Chili cheese dogs make everything better!

Lexxy · My dog name is Sasha, too!

FNW wrote:
Yeah. We were saying the roofers were rubbing their hands together while the insurance agents were pulling their hair out.

After a really big hail storm about 10 or so years ago there were some really shifty out of town roofing companies that came to the area. They would just show up at people's homes & lay out their supplies & tell them the insurance company sent them. It was nuts.

flan327 · Itty bitty's Grammy

Lexxy wrote:
FNW wrote:
Yeah. We were saying the roofers were rubbing their hands together while the insurance agents were pulling their hair out.
After a really big hail storm about 10 or so years ago there were some really shifty out of town roofing companies that came to the area. They would just show up at people's homes & lay out their supplies & tell them the insurance company sent them. It was nuts.

I've heard of them doing that all over the country. Disgusting...

flan

FNW · Guru

Lexxy wrote:
FNW wrote:
Yeah. We were saying the roofers were rubbing their hands together while the insurance agents were pulling their hair out.
After a really big hail storm about 10 or so years ago there were some really shifty out of town roofing companies that came to the area. They would just show up at people's homes & lay out their supplies & tell them the insurance company sent them. It was nuts.

I remember that. We contacted our insurance company right away, and they sent a guy over to evaluate, etc. Half the roof was damaged and siding on two sides of the house. They discontinued the siding we had, so we got the full house done. We paid extra to have the entire roof done at the same time, and a little extra to upgrade our siding to Hardy board. We went with a company the insurance company knew, and got it done first in the neighborhood. But I do remember the gypsies coming in later and trying to find work but most of the neighbors had already jumped on it.

Lexxy · My dog name is Sasha, too!

Our phone is starting to ring with claims. It seems the other end of the county got hit pretty hard.

FNW · Guru

Are you in Prince William? I'm in Fairfax.

Lexxy · My dog name is Sasha, too!

FNW wrote:
Are you in Prince William? I'm in Fairfax.

Prince William on the Western side. The Eastern side - Woodbridge area seems to have been hit. At least that is where most of our calls are coming from. One client in Oakton also got damage.

FNW · Guru

Yeah, I'm near the Oakton border. It was pretty intense.

just Czech · Give Me Grand's!

You all must be in the D.C. metro area. I heard that area got hit hard with hail on the news last night.

FNW, glad you do not have hail damage.

Lexxy, sorry you are stuck with handling claims.

Divine Geek · Guru

Lexxy wrote:
Divine Geek wrote:
I hate today. Going for chili cheese dogs and French fries for lunch - that should help
Chili cheese dogs make everything better!

It did help. I should have gotten ice cream too

lilyofcourse · My spirit animal is a pink flamingo.

Sounds like we dodged a bullet here.

It rained and the lightening was dangerous but it passed quickly.

Lexxy, storms mean job security. Right?

TrudyML · Guru

Storms? Job security? Ha. More like hell.

just Czech · Give Me Grand's!

TrudyML wrote:
Storms? Job security? Ha. More like hell.

But, you get paid for that hell. biggrin

Here, have a beer.

Lawyerlady · On the bright side...... Christmas is coming! (Mod)

Trudy - how else are people supposed to get new roofs?

Lexxy · My dog name is Sasha, too!

TrudyML wrote:
Storms? Job security? Ha. More like hell.

LOL, not to mention the loss of bonuses because our loss ration gets shot to hell.

Lexxy · My dog name is Sasha, too!

just Czech wrote:
You all must be in the D.C. metro area. I heard that area got hit hard with hail on the news last night.

FNW, glad you do not have hail damage.

Lexxy, sorry you are stuck with handling claims.

Thanks but so far none of my commercial clients have called in (knocking on wood). It is my poor coworker who handles homeowners. And yes we are in Northern VA in the metro area.

Lawyerlady · On the bright side...... Christmas is coming! (Mod)

Why isn't the plural of roof, rooves?

TrudyML · Guru

Lawyerlady wrote:
Trudy - how else are people supposed to get new roofs?

Just had one. They only got paid half. If I had a dollar for every time I explain homeowners insurance is not a home maintenance policy I'd be a millionaire!

Lexxy · My dog name is Sasha, too!

TrudyML wrote:
Lawyerlady wrote:
Trudy - how else are people supposed to get new roofs?
Just had one. They only got paid half. If I had a dollar for every time I explain homeowners insurance is not a home maintenance policy I'd be a millionaire!

Wouldn't we all sista?

Ohfour · Hooker

TrudyML wrote:
Lawyerlady wrote:
Trudy - how else are people supposed to get new roofs?
Just had one. They only got paid half. If I had a dollar for every time I explain homeowners insurance is not a home maintenance policy I'd be a millionaire!

Really? We had very minimal hail damage and our insurance paid for a new roof. $13,000. Minus our $1,000 deductible...

Lexxy · My dog name is Sasha, too!

Lawyerlady wrote:
Why isn't the plural of roof, rooves?

Spell check allows roofs but keeps changing rooves to roves so I'm going with roofs.

Lawyerlady · On the bright side...... Christmas is coming! (Mod)

If we get hail damage, our will replace our roof. Half of our subdivision has already had it done. The houses were done with Atlas Chalet shingles - which are discontinued and can't be patched with anything else so the whole roof has to be done when there is any damage at all. Ours has no damage, yet.

Lexxy · My dog name is Sasha, too!

Ohfour wrote:
TrudyML wrote:
Lawyerlady wrote:
Trudy - how else are people supposed to get new roofs?
Just had one. They only got paid half. If I had a dollar for every time I explain homeowners insurance is not a home maintenance policy I'd be a millionaire!
Really? We had very minimal hail damage and our insurance paid for a new roof. $13,000. Minus our $1,000 deductible...

There is actually a specific set of criteria for how they decide on a partial or full replacement here. There has to be X amount of damage spread over X amount of the surface. I'm not an adjuster so I don't know the exact measurement.

Lawyerlady · On the bright side...... Christmas is coming! (Mod)

Lexxy wrote:
Lawyerlady wrote:
Why isn't the plural of roof, rooves?
Spell check allows roofs but keeps changing rooves to roves so I'm going with roofs.

I know it's roofs, but WHY? Hoof changes to hooves, knife changes to knives, etc.

Lexxy · My dog name is Sasha, too!

Lawyerlady wrote:
Lexxy wrote:
Lawyerlady wrote:
Why isn't the plural of roof, rooves?
Spell check allows roofs but keeps changing rooves to roves so I'm going with roofs.
I know it's roofs, but WHY? Hoof changes to hooves, knife changes to knives, etc.

LOL, because English is a illogical language? But at least we don't make inanimate objects male & female.

TrudyML · Guru

Ohfour wrote:
TrudyML wrote:
Lawyerlady wrote:
Trudy - how else are people supposed to get new roofs?
Just had one. They only got paid half. If I had a dollar for every time I explain homeowners insurance is not a home maintenance policy I'd be a millionaire!
Really? We had very minimal hail damage and our insurance paid for a new roof. $13,000. Minus our $1,000 deductible...

Major crackdown with the faux roofing companies and people going up there and damaging them. Her roof was 20 years old. And to be honest? I wonder if it was replaced.

Ohfour · Hooker

TrudyML wrote:
Ohfour wrote:
TrudyML wrote:
Lawyerlady wrote:
Trudy - how else are people supposed to get new roofs?
Just had one. They only got paid half. If I had a dollar for every time I explain homeowners insurance is not a home maintenance policy I'd be a millionaire!
Really? We had very minimal hail damage and our insurance paid for a new roof. $13,000. Minus our $1,000 deductible...
Major crackdown with the faux roofing companies and people going up there and damaging them. Her roof was 20 years old. And to be honest? I wonder if it was replaced.

I hate people sometimes...

Our insurance company made SURE we replaced the roof. The check from the insurance company was made out to us, the roofing company, AND our bank. And then the insurance company had to send documentation to the bank that the work was complete and satisfactory...

Southern_Belle · Nothing's Impossible

TrudyML · Guru

That is funny!

TrudyML · Guru

My new misery is mold. Mold, the new ATM card!

flan327 · Itty bitty's Grammy

Lexxy wrote:
Lawyerlady wrote:
Lexxy wrote:
Lawyerlady wrote:
Why isn't the plural of roof, rooves?
Spell check allows roofs but keeps changing rooves to roves so I'm going with roofs.
I know it's roofs, but WHY? Hoof changes to hooves, knife changes to knives, etc.
LOL, because English is a illogical language? But at least we don't make inanimate objects male & female.

Seriously. It's not a big surprise.

What about moose? Goose?

flan

just Czech · Give Me Grand's!

TrudyML wrote:
My new misery is mold. Mold, the new ATM card!

Ouch. Mold is not a good thing, ever.

Where do you have mold?

TrudyML · Guru

Clients saying they have it. To get paid on a claim.