MoHo and Twisters
18 April 2012
• Shelburne NS
by Mike
The MoHo is in to the auto doctors for its propane tank transplant. We’re hoping that all will go well but it is thirty years old to complications may develop so we are steeling ourselves for possible bad news. WE have to do what we can so we will be able to get down to Halifax to get Nelleke ready for launch so it’s a sort of domino effect. The pulley take off that I have ordered for Nelleke’s prop shaft has arrived so that is one more thing that we have to pick up, that and an alternator mount and a pulley belt to fit and we should be good to go.
Meanwhile we are working to get a whole bunch of stuff done to the town in preparation for the arrival of the summer festivals and the Tall Ships. I was told that I couldn’t take vacations in the winter because that was the busiest time but I am finding that is nonsense. My predecessor was a micro manager and her was a fellow that insisted on being the guy that ordered the troops out to plow snow in spite of the fact that they knew way more about when and what they needed to do than he did. I on the other hand told the guys that I had faith in their judgment and that all I needed to know even if it was after
the fact that they were coming in just so I could answer questions should I be asked. Now I am discovering that way, way, way more stuff takes place during the summer and I am looking to see when I could take vacations. Perhaps next winter they will let me take some holidays during the winter.
I continue to be astounded at the weather patterns that we are now experiencing. We are back into a double digit weather system that looks like it will be continuing for the next couple of weeks which is as far out into the future that they can forecast. There is definitely a systematic climate change that is taking place – warmer temperatures here in Atlantic Canada, cooler winters in New England, unseasonal and increased numbers of tornados throughout the US, it’s incredible. I am wondering how long it will take before the insurance companies catch up with events and find an excuse to raise our boat insurance citing the tornado threat as the reason. As it is at this time last year when I was up here in NS and Barb was back in Deltaville, she narrowly missed getting up close and personal with the tornado that passed within a kilometer of the marina where the boat was tied up. That was one of those nail biting times that we were communicating by texting through the whole business but fortunately for our collective sanity neither of us was aware of what was happening until the whole thing was over and the storm had passed. I think that I would have gone noisily nuts being up here and not being able to do anything to ensure her safety, so I can only imagine what it must be like for Americans living in Tornado Alley and wondering what they can do for their property and their loved ones.
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