GPW wrote:I’d just like to say a special
THANK YOU to Greygoos for the really nice window !!!
…. It’s going to look really Good on the Foam Stream and really let a lot more light in … Plus providing a good amount of ventilation too … It’s good friends like this that make this all possible … Thanks Goos …!!!
GPW, did you get these windows installed?
I ask because I am thinking about using my long sliders that I have sitting in my truck cap that I recently took off my GMC before I sold it. The two side sliders and maybe use the stationary front window as a moonroof or front window....I would be interested to see how you handle installing the big windows and inside trim.
I finished this whole thread....can't remember any cats...now I have done it.....but plenty of weather.....
Hey.....Betsy we rode the pirogues in the streets....our house was wearing one third of the double house that was on the rear street....our single shotgun house was wearing part of that double shotgun house's roof.....the roof was lifted....leaving the chimneys intact....it traveled in a straight-line towards our house....when it encountered our garage..built from oil field tubing welded frame cemented in slab...yeah flying roof didn't stand a chance..(on our 30' foot wide lot.....I learned how to drive a stick.....from the street into that garage and back out to the street again....a pink 57 chevy....when I was 12)...we were standing in the open door facing our street...so with our backs to the flying roof direction when it hit.on top of us...I think it was Betsy or maybe Hilda....one of those.....Shwegmanns on the Westbank emptied their freezers and coolers of 'ALL' perishables in the parking lot....the next day.....every kid who had a bike with a basket (me) made a few hauls of ice cream, frozen pies and other goodies..even real food for Mom...boy were we ever sick.....we were without power for a few weeks and mostly without a roof....candles, 6 volt lanterns (bull eyes for those in the 'know') coleman stoves.....
In the spirit of bug out....a multi prong attack on the powering of emergency equipment....just like the old days.....I still have the old reliables....candles, coleman stove, a nice little backpacking stove too.....and I have been meaning to build me a compact rocket stove, or just break down and buy one....
When I used to live on the West Pearl River....right at the old Indian Village.....my house was on the old natural levee.....didn't help it during Katrina.....it still had 2 1/2 feet of water in it....but I had sold it over a year before....I lived there for 4 years I think.....I had to pull my 32 foot Jayco out of there every little tropical depression....as the water would come over the entrance road to the area....so you had to bug out or hunker down (hunker up....) I just took a little trip every storm....would miss all the traffic....as I couldn't wait that long.
Somebody asked what do we do down there with boats and things left behind during storms (boat on trailers on land)....during Katrina I was living in Covington, I had just sold a camp that I renovated in Pirates Alley.....old first exit off I-10 (it had 2 1/2 feet of water in the house, which was 10 foot above the water)....well back at my house in Covington....I had a 16 foot Weld Craft....a heavy alum welded V-front flat set up like a bass boat....I bought it to dodge those logs in the Pearl River System....well to answer what I did when I left it behind.....I had both the boat and the trailer tied to a handful of big trees....when we were able to come home 3 1/2 weeks later....the tree that fell on the boat was removed.....but the boat still has the over a foot long depression where it rested on the gunwale....and slight ding in the side of the boat where it was rammed against the strong galvanized trailer fender....
When we did run from Katrina....our route was strange.....we started in Fort Walton Beach Florida....my wife was presenting at her work's annual big show....we had made it a family trip....and had someone else's teenager with us....they ran us out of Florida with us thinking the storm was going right where we were....of course by the time we got to Covington....everyone was running away.....I hurriedly tied everything important down (i.e. boat)....I had just sold my 32 foot Jayco..at the same time I sold the camp...we were without a bug out trailer.....I was actively looking for one before the storm.....of course after the storm.....it was slim pickings for awhile.....we took back roads....and the only traffic I ran into was a couple of prison busses.....until I hit Vicksburg, MS......by the time we got on the road....it was a choice between Dallas or Little Rock for the closest open motel room....then after a few days we spent the rest of the exile north of Atlanta on the floor at family.....Parish Bank was closed for a good week....our accounts were not accessible.....hard to convey to others what happens when the stuff really hits the fan....
My neighbor had my trees cleared off my boat and out of my driveway before I got back....he had wisely pulled my 'filled' with seafood and beef.....long six foot long chest freezer.....over to his house.....it was the community 'ice box' ....came in handy when the national guard was giving out ice....we were more than grateful they took it out of the house and drug it across the road....they also had emptied the refrigerator......so unlike many others.....I didn't need to buy a new refrigerator...nor deal with the smell...so the freezer 'requisition' was a good deal....
I am going to take a little liberty since this is bug out central....ever see or stand in a storm surge while it was happening? I did at the camp mentioned above...I attended my son's graduation at Lackland AFB....upon returning there was a 'small' tropical depression coming into Slidell....I was still remodeling the camp to resell it....I was living in my 32 foot Jayco....which was parked in front of it....I drove back at night arriving in Slidell at 7am....within an hour or so.....a foot and 1/2 or so storm surge came in we watched the little wall of water coming in.....all the neighbors.....as I was getting them to help me really fast to hook up my truck to the Jayco.......the water came up almost to the bearings of my trailer......we all watched it roll under our houses and across the highway.....then we watched it roll across the two mile open stretch of open marsh......so glad I wasn't there to watch the surge come in during Katrina......some fools were home in the neighborhood.....
The foamy bug out is so smart.....FoamStream is really cool....big enough....and smart....and thrifty...
What is really strange....you built yours to leave New Orleans.....and I am building mine so I can travel to New Orleans....go figure....
by John61CT » Fri Oct 26, 2018 8:08 am 
Never worked harder !!! 
and every time, I open the Studio door to check on how the water rolls off the FS, and it DOES !!! 
