Dear Mother Nature, Old Man Winter, or whoever’s up there controlling the weather:
Before I start, let me just ask that we not even get into asking what kind of idiot decides to re-roof the house in December in Seattle. I know now, first-hand, what kind of idiot that would be, thank you very much.
The thing is, you lulled us into believing that we would get away with it. The weather in November wasn’t that bad, and even the first week of December was fine. On Saturday, when the guys were clearing out the driveway, and on Sunday and Monday, when they were tearing off the shingles, it was cloudy, but I expect cloudy days this time of year. We can work with cloudy. But turning on the taps full blast once they got well into the tear-off was a little annoying. Leaving it going continually for the next week has been, in my humble and human opinion, just a little too much. And that bit where you turn off the rain and wait for the roofers to actually get to our house, and then dump the buckets? Funny the first time, over the top by now.
Yeah, yeah, we all need a little humility now and then, and it was a good joke at first. At any point this past week you could have stopped this little mess, and we would have gone away with lesson learned. But no, you have to carry on with the rain, and more rain, and still more rain, and none of that nice misty drizzle either. We’ve had almost a week straight of downpour. Even last Sunday, when it started out sunny, ended up with pouring rain. The makeshift roof covering of tarp and tarpaper the roofers were kind enough to slap up there worked for several days, but now we’ve got a leak somewhere that’s dripping through our ceiling at a very inconvenient place to fix. I’m getting rain rage here, and that’s just not a good thing.
You see, my friend, the reason this is such a problem for us is that now we’re sort of stuck in the middle. We certainly can’t put the torn-off shingles back ON the roof. And we’ve been told that the roofers can do the shingles in the rain, if that’s all they need to do. But it’s not; we had arranged to have them replace the plywood and felt as well. And we really need a couple days when it’s not raining for them to be able to do that.
I’m willing to work with you on this. We don’t need two consecutive days without rain. And we don’t need it to not rain at night. We just need some time, not on a Sunday because the roofers don’t work Sundays, when they can put the darn roof back on my house. Does that sound all right? Can we make a deal here? We’ll call it an early Christmas present or something, and I’ll agree not to gripe about the weather next March when I’m getting tired of what passes for winter out here.
Thanks much,
Jessica
P.S. And if you need something to do with that precipitation that isn’t falling on my house, my mom says they could use some snow back home. She’s getting a little depressed about not having a white Christmas. Just a suggestion.
