Casting Shop Closed Through July
June 16th 2008
By Tuesday of last week, we had things patched up a bit – still plenty of work left to do, but we could get in and out of HistoriFigs HQ…
Thursday brought round two of storms with heavy wind and rain. The result being an even bigger mess than the results of the storms form the previous weekend. Wind wasn’t so much a factor for us; it was the water!
The picture above was taken Friday morning, as you can see water is still moving fairly quickly down the new path of the creek – the new path just happens to be our driveway – deepest portion is a depth of 4 feet…
By late Saturday, I was able to redirect the flow of water back into the original creek bed, thus arresting further erosion damage.
As we move on down to the bottom of the driveway, we see that the county will be busy for a couple of day repairing the damaged roadway (which has our road closed).
As you can see, the street is a bit torn up, this will have to be repaired before we can even think about our own repairs.
Our last picture shows State Hwy 33 – our main road in – on Saturday afternoon…
It is hard to see, but there is a car roof just barley visible just to the right of the flag pole (which is to the right of the sign at the gas station). Other pictures show a water depth of 6 plus feet…
Anyhow, the good news is that we are all fine, wet, covered in poison ivy and mosquito bites, but fine none-the-less. The area is recovering, but it is going to take some time for things to get back to normal.
Given the current situation, we have decided to close the casting shop through the month of July. Between cleanup and a need to conserve propane (no way the truck can get in to fill the tank) we just cannot see any type of ‘normal’ operations until at least August. We still have plenty of stock (Resistant Roosters, Blasted Planets and Bloodaxe Miniatures), but will be cutting back to a single shipping day each week (target is shipping on Fridays).
Not much more to report on right now, we will continue to update you with our progress (on cleanup as well as any other interesting projects that may come along)
