Might not have taken the brunt of the hurricane here in Port Huron, but got to see some nice side affects. Had a bit of a scare here, though, I guess. Seems with all the reconstruction and repair we've been doing on our HVAC system over the past year, our roof got quite cover with bits of insulation, metal, etc. Got here at 9 Am this morning to see the overflow spouts trickling, which seem a bit odd.
I should say that our main facility was built as a Carnegie Library in 1904, so will be 100 years old this year. Needless to say, roof access is pre-OSHA, and involves climbing a wooden ladder through a closet off our second floor.
Well, scampered up there to see our roof over our Mezzanine area covered with water roughly up to my knees! Both down drains were plugged solid from the force of the rain overnight and today (still going pretty strong actually). In a roof space roughly 20 X 30, thats a decent amount of water. Trudged through immediately to get one side unplugged, which took about ten minutes. As would be expected by anyone who knows these things (read into this NOT ME), the force of freeing that one side knocked me on my keester, This same force was also strong enough that it shook the pipe it was going through with a vibration that I was told later would be heard in our basement studio area!
Long and the short, if you havea flat-roofed, 100 year old building, routinely check the gutters and cleanouts, especially after torential downpours.Hate to think what would have happened if our roof went kaplooey (kaplooey being a techincal term)
A thoroughly soggy Curator,
TJG
> Anyone know if the EBT's Rockhill Furnace
> Shops survived the bad weather overnight?
> Staybolt
tjgaffney@phmuseum.org
