Not fun
Even less so for Corpus Christi and surrounding areas.
Here's to hoping y'all pull through ok.
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Not fun
Even less so for Corpus Christi and surrounding areas.
Here's to hoping y'all pull through ok.
Yeah, looking at news from Rockport and Corpus Christi yesterday was heartbreaking. Today's heartbreak is trying to keep in touch with friends in Houston and trying to figure out if they're going to be OK. All the junk passing over them looks like it might turn around and hit me late this afternoon, but it'll be significantly weaker by that time.
I can't tell exactly how much rainfall we got yesterday because Weather Underground is unreliable as hell. The last I looked they claimed about 3.6" accumulated, but at 10:30 it magically switched to 2.3" and rainfall doesn't work like that.
I watched several pages and videos, and it did not look good at all.
Strongs for anybody in those areas!
My lights continue to go off and on, thankfully I'm next to the Elementry School, High School, and (only) Hospital so we tend to get priority.
My house nearly flooded and during some of the really bad weather, we dug a ditch to lead to our main ditch which really helped (boy say that 5 times fast). My business location is about to flood, there is a bayou that is right behind it though, so no surprise there.
Unfortunately, it looks like Harvey is going to make a third landfall up the same location that Rita. We're bracing for Harvey to hit us on early Wednesday morning. What really sucks is how wet this summer has been. I think this is going to be my last post on VBForums for a while. In case you don't know, I own a captive insurance agency and so I'm sure that this will be taking up a lot of my time.
It's easy for someone who sit far away in a sunny land to say good things. I will never understand the feel and loss unless it happens to me(us).
I hope that everything will be on your side and you guys will survive.
I'm at loss of words.... :(
My home didn't flood, but the electricity is out until tomorrow at 10 PM. My office got some water in it, but all I'll need to do is pop the baseboards off and clean them up. Unfortunately, I think something may have died under my office and I can't find it so it sticks like crazy.
My friend who owns an agency in Vidor, TX. lost everything though. Her house has 6 feet of water and her office has water up to the roof line. My employee's nanny who lives in Houston also flooded up to the roof line.
The unfortunate thing in all this is that the hurricane itself didn't do much damage, it was the flooding, and since only 17% of the people carry flood insurance... well you can see where this is going.
dday
Good to see you up and kicking.
The water thing in the entire region is truly nasty.
Will be interesting to see how Congress deals with the flood insurance issue, My recollection is that there was disagreement following Sandy, and now the shoe appears to be on the other foot.
Spoo
Personal hat (not professional opinion): I don't think that Congress should subsidize the flood claims. These people deliberately refused flood insurance and in many cases signed refusal letters stating that they knew that flood damage is not covered under homeowners insurance or paid off their homes and immediately dropped the flood insurance as soon as it isn't required.
Morning guys! :wave:
Afternoon all! At least in 5 minutes...
Self employed since 1988...
...changes tomorrow...
:eek:
Likely to be a disturbance in the force!Quote:
Originally Posted by dday9
What made you decide to work for someone? The supplemental products, major medical, guaranteed pay, or all/some of the above?
Client of mine since 1988 - IT job became available - I cold called them and said I was interested - 2 weeks later all sewn up.
Outrageous benefits were a big consideration.
Freedom of self employment is balanced by peeks and valleys in cash flow. If it was all peeks - that would be one thing.
They were actually one of my last clients running my old VB6 4GL app. Now I see nothing that will stop me from migrating that to my current web based rich-internet-app.
That is one of the benefits of owning an insurance agency. I get paid on renewals and so even if I have a valley then I still have the renewals to fall back on.
When I sell software clients pay maintenance annually so I've always got that. And I will be keeping most of that for the foreseeable future.
It's only 15% of original cost - so it's not like renewals are to you.
I've always compared myself more to how an attorney gets paid. There are times of great piles of billable hours and then stretches of pro bene work.
One of my clients does social work for various special needs groups. They just had a state grant cut by $500,000 dollar - that led to them discharging over 100 participants. Those participants will be right back in the ER and in jail before you know it and the stupid state of CT is going to have to pay anyway.
Any modifications that I was looking forward to doing in their app this year pretty much evaporated.
I would say Good Luck, but it sounds like you have landed on your feet and are in no need of luck, so instead i will just say congratulations.Quote:
Client of mine since 1988 - IT job became available - I cold called them and said I was interested - 2 weeks later all sewn up.
I sometimes get asked by friends of mine why i dont go and setup my own business and work for myself, and my reply is why the hell would i do that?
Yes i could probably earn more, but its more stress and less holidays and i would have to arrange my own pension. At my current job i work from 8.30am till 4pm and then i go home and forget completely about work until the next day, and i spend zero time working at the weekends.
This summer just gone i went on Holiday for 3 weeks, i couldn't imagine doing that if i worked for myself
I totally understand your decision Steve. I have been there and switched over to employment. The stresses of the ups and downs just don't outweigh the benefits. I'm back to working two jobs again: employment for programming and my non-competing side business.