Lance "Tweener" Ladd had the bedroom fire last month, and I had a flood in my basement yesterday.

I came home for lunch (which I usually don't have time to do) about 1:30 p.m. We'd had an automatic sprinkler system installed in both the front and back yards. Yesterday the "groovy" concrete guys came by to lay some curvy shapes in the back yard, and hooked up their water hose to the faucet protruding from the house in back... the one that leaks inside the basement, which we'd told them *not* to use!

I found about 4 inches of water at the bottom of the steps, which the Servicemaster folks took care of. The fans ran all night, and then two strapping young Servicemaster guys came by this morning and cut the carpet up into little yard-(meter?-)square pieces to dry. I took the day off from work to drag dripping cardboard boxes up the concrete steps.

The GOOD news? 99% of my rocketry stuff didn't get wet (because I keep it up high), except for the bottom inch of a box with some old photos and a few Moldin' Oldies nose cones (along with the Centuri originals).

Only about 2% percent of my irreplaceable stuff (in general) was damaged, and thankfully all of my books were well out of the floodwaters. So aside from the sand underfoot that the water washed out of the carpet ("Dude! I've got my own private beach!"), things are pretty much looking up.

(No, I didn't attempt any underwater launches. I simply wasn't in the mood.)


Less soggy than I was,

--Jay

So, are the concrete guys liable for damage?
What kind of photos were damaged?

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Bill Eichelberger
NAR 79563

http://wallyum.blogspot.com/

I miss being SAM 0058

Build floor: Centuri Mini Dactyl Estes - Low Boom SST Semroc - Marauder, Shrike, SST Shuttle

In paint: Canaroc Starfighter Scorpion Estes F-22 Air Superiority Fighter, Multi-Roc, Solar Sailer II Semroc Cyber III

Ready to fly: Estes - Solar Sailer II Semroc - Earmark, Groonie Der V 1/2

I'm glad you didn't lose much. In my situation, the stuff closest to the floor was what was least damaged. I had a Snitch that was on the floor and didn't disfigure a bit, but the firemen broke all the antenna / spring mounting tabs off while gathering up what was smoldering and throwing it out the window.

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Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems
Grovers Mill, NJ
Established 1938
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They're subcontractors, but the guy who's the landscaping contractor actually has a conscience (plus I've known his wife for over 20 years). I've lost count of the times he's said he's sorry, and this morning he told me he wanted to make things right.

Only the ones with rockets. Actually, just slightly soggy, not really damaged. Some of those go back to the 70's, others are in the last 3 or 4 years.


Cheers,

--Jay

Got a scanner? If not, send them to me and I'll scan them. Maybe we can "talk" someone into Photoshopping them back into shape.

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Bill Eichelberger
NAR 79563

http://wallyum.blogspot.com/

I miss being SAM 0058

Build floor: Centuri Mini Dactyl Estes - Low Boom SST Semroc - Marauder, Shrike, SST Shuttle

In paint: Canaroc Starfighter Scorpion Estes F-22 Air Superiority Fighter, Multi-Roc, Solar Sailer II Semroc Cyber III

Ready to fly: Estes - Solar Sailer II Semroc - Earmark, Groonie Der V 1/2

How about this first one, which had the glossy inside of the envelope stick itself to the photo?

Number two (which my mom told me looked like a lizard) could provide a cleanup challenge.

I thought I'd toss in numbers 3 and 4 just for fun. (IIRC, my mom had new prints made of the original B&W shots.)

The caption for number 4? "*Dude.*"

The last one's a bit more recent. My daughter Emma is 7 and Colette is 8 1/2.


Cheers,

--Jay

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Other than being an engine mount with the shock chord attached to it...

...But then, you said these were from the 70's, right? That was before Quest introduced the Kevlar thread style...

...For that matter, that was before Quest...

Wonder if some FotoFlo on a Q-tip might remove that paper without removing the image?

Any good camera shop, or photo shop that caters to DIY photography, should have it in stock. Kodak product, IIRC...

If the shop is good, the owner might also have a couple of suggestions...

...And for shame, Jay, hanging around in bars at such an early age...



Season One was more rough and gritty compared to Season Two. When they brought in the female metamorph with the comic-Vulcan eyebrows, that really started the downhill trend.

Craig...

Cute pics, Jay.
How's this one? My brother Dave and I circa 1971. Would you toss kids that looked like this some spare change? (And we were considered well off. :eek

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Bill Eichelberger
NAR 79563

http://wallyum.blogspot.com/

I miss being SAM 0058

Build floor: Centuri Mini Dactyl Estes - Low Boom SST Semroc - Marauder, Shrike, SST Shuttle

In paint: Canaroc Starfighter Scorpion Estes F-22 Air Superiority Fighter, Multi-Roc, Solar Sailer II Semroc Cyber III

Ready to fly: Estes - Solar Sailer II Semroc - Earmark, Groonie Der V 1/2

I could not do much for the other ones, but I was able to reconstruct the rocket that was somehow removed from number 4.

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Carl McLawhorn
NAR#4717 L2
semroc.com