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[Clunkmeister]

It’s been the worst year of my extremely long life.
Betrayal, thievery, attacks from all sides.  
Did the turtle thing and tucked up inside. 
Now, it appears the demons have been vanquished, and all is good. I thought September was the end, and then, BANG, a supercell parks over my town and we get gold ball and baseball hail on a Sunday afternoon for 20 minutes straight. 
The forecast was for possible intermittent light showers, so I had my 1956 Meteor outside after a detail job for a show, and pulled my pickup in to replace the right side door glass.  Yep, then the storm hit.  We lost the roof on our house, our gazebo, Joy’s Ford Flex, my Focus,… and our 56 Meteor.  
The Flex was totaled but I’m fixing it, the Focus is trashed, and the Meteor suffered 28 thousand in damage. It’s getting fixed.  Our roof finally was finished 2 weeks ago.

So, im going to check out all the super cool builds that happened in the last 10 months, and just go from there.

your newly humble once upon a time helper around here.

E

[Martinnfb]

Fuuuuuuuu^$%$ !  Brutal.

[JohnB]

57 minutes ago, Clunkmeister said:

It’s been the worst year of my extremely long life.
Betrayal, thievery, attacks from all sides.  
Did the turtle thing and tucked up inside. 
Now, it appears the demons have been vanquished, and all is good. I thought September was the end, and then, BANG, a supercell parks over my town and we get gold ball and baseball hail on a Sunday afternoon for 20 minutes straight. 
The forecast was for possible intermittent light showers, so I had my 1956 Meteor outside after a detail job for a show, and pulled my pickup in to replace the right side door glass.  Yep, then the storm hit.  We lost the roof on our house, our gazebo, Joy’s Ford Flex, my Focus,… and our 56 Meteor.  
The Flex was totaled but I’m fixing it, the Focus is trashed, and the Meteor suffered 28 thousand in damage. It’s getting fixed.  Our roof finally was finished 2 weeks ago.

So, im going to check out all the super cool builds that happened in the last 10 months, and just go from there.

your newly humble once upon a time helper around here.

E

It's always SOMETHING Ernie. 

[biggtim]

What a blast!! Glad to have you back buddy!

[belugawhaleman]

Man ! That's rough! Sorry to hear of this.Glad to hear you're back though

[Landlubber Mike]

Geez Ernie, I was wondering what happened to you.  Sorry to hear about everything life threw at you, but glad you are on the other side of things now.

[HubertB]

So terrible to read this Ernie. Well, I guess you’ll be happy to move into 2026 with a fresh perspective.

My thoughts and support are with you, my friend. All the best to you and Joy.

Hubert

[Clunkmeister]

2 hours ago, JohnB said:

It's always SOMETHING Ernie. 

It is.  This last, well, almost 2 years has been 1 thing after another.  One thing gets solved, and next comes something else, and on and on for almost 2 years.    I lost my way after a year and a half of nonstop assaults, to where I just said f++k it and gave up.

 

[Spitfire]

That is way more than having a tough time, it sounds like a lifetime of bad luck in a very short period, glad to hear that you are on the way back.

We were lucky when we lived in Sydney, we were fine but out neighbours car was totalled by hail.

Cheers

Dennis

[Clunkmeister]

1 hour ago, HubertB said:

So terrible to read this Ernie. Well, I guess you’ll be happy to move into 2026 with a fresh perspective.

My thoughts and support are with you, my friend. All the best to you and Joy.

Hubert

We'll try, Hubert.  But the worst thing is how I let my friends here down.    People look to me for certain things, and here we are, and I finally got petrol for my internal motor.

 

[Martinnfb]

You're just tired Ernie, yore not the one that gives up easily .

[Clunkmeister]

Just now, Spitfire said:

That is way more than having a tough time, it sounds like a lifetime of bad luck in a very short period, glad to hear that you are on the way back.

We were lucky when we lived in Sydney, we were fine but out neighbours car was totalled by hail.

Cheers

Dennis

My wife turned to me as we left Church and said "honey so you want to go to lunch or go home so you can install the right door glass in your pickup?"  The showers were forecast for 6, we got home at 3. There was ONE single super cell within 500 miles, and it parked over my little town.  At 4:45

[Clunkmeister]

2 minutes ago, Martinnfb said:

You're just tired Ernie, yore not the one that gives up easily .

I'm worn out, Martin, yes, and you know it.  My employees and family always come first, and hobbies after that.  We'll figure it out

 

[GusMac]

Sorry to hear all the grief that has befallen you and Joy, Ernie. I hope you're back on an even keel and everything is getting sorted especially your home.

Take your time and just settle-in slow

[PanzerWomble]

Sounds like an annus horiblis as our Liz once said , thats Latin for huge sh%t storm . I hope you’re well on the way to getting back on a sounder footing. You didn't miss much - just a bunch of blokes glueing bits of plastic together;  the endeavour of which is truly nada compared to loosing your home and cars . Best wishes from the UK

[BlrwestSiR]

I know they say everything is bigger in Texas but that is just insane what you've gone through. 

Hope things get back on track for you without any more surprises (or baseball sized hail).

We missed you buddy and I'm glad you're back. 

Carl

[Winnie]

Hugs from this Canadian!

I understand what you say when you say "shit year", I have one too, although mine isn't near as bad as yours!

Keep yer chin up, and I'm thinking of you!

Harald

[Daniel_Roxy]

So sorry to hear this. That's a hell of a hard blow.

Best of luck to you for the coming year. Hope you can get back to how life was before all the trouble.

[CANicoll]

Ernie,

SOOO good to have you back!  This has not been a great year, but how much can one person take?  I feel for you and Joy.  Glad to see you with us again.  We missed you!

Chris

[telepatu]

Oh man, that was really sad to read. Hopefully things will get better soon for you and your family. Hoping for a better year in 2026! 

Br, Jani