Enough Board Hunting!

   It seems that 2021 took lessons from 2020 in what weather to throw at us.  Just two days ago, Son struggled to haul the massive pier joists up out of the marsh where a storm tossed them.  These things are a couple of hundred pounds bone dry but let them become waterlogged and they are easily twice that.  The lifting was bad enough but to do that lifting in sloppy mud and sinking up to your knees in the muck and the job becomes an ordeal.  He managed to retrieve the planks and even toted a few more to the pier thinking surely there would be a few days of clear.  There was...a few days...but other duties called and the pier boards sat in place without being nailed.  Now, another storm is on the horizon.  This one will, once again, push the tide high enough to float the joists off the stringers.  

  Thinking ahead this time, Son went down and temporarily bolted the joists to the stringers.  They are not in the exact places but, hopefully, will stay in place.  He does not need to be tromping about in the marsh to retrieve them for the eighth time within as many months.  Our poor, little Bayou has been pummeled recently.  

  The storm that is to hit tonight and tomorrow is predicted to come in on high tide just as the last one did. That means the pier will be underwater and anything on top will be gone.  Thankfully, we had a bit of warning this time.  Everything is secure.

  To top it off, just last night, I heard that the 2021 Hurricane Season is expected to be another busy one.  In fact, some meteorologists are calling for a more severe season than last.  Not good...not good at all.  We do not need it.  No one on the Gulf Coast from Texas to Florida needs it.  The good folks in Louisiana are still reeling from the damage done there.  Mississippi is much the same.  We need a break.

  The storm tonight is not going to be near the strength of a tropical system but will bounce things around a bit.  It just gets a bit frustrating to keep having to find our pier!  After Hurricane Zeta, we salvaged over 3000 boards...ours, our neighbors' and some from parts unknown.  That was enough salvaging!  Time now to finish the rebuilding without mucking in the marsh!  Stay safe, folks, stay safe.