Its never too early to start planning for Spring. One of the Fall
projects is to rough-in the water and power for the Dock Area. We decided that we did not need water on the dock at this time so the plan is for a Yard Hydrant. We are
installing a utility outlet in the area and we are running a 220-volt line that will be stubbed off at the foot of the dock for a
future boat lift should the need arrive.
The storm has come and gone, with very little damage to the area. We did have unusually high tide and some area flooding, an were told that this was the same water level as Hurricane Sandy** (October 29, 2012).
** Sandy – While it was a Category 2 storm off the coast of the Northeastern United States, the storm became the largest Atlantic hurricane on record (as measured by diameter, with winds spanning 1,100 miles (1,800 km)). Estimates as of 2015 assessed damage to have been about $75 billion (2012 USD), a total surpassed only by Hurricane Katrina.[5] At least 233 people were killed along the path of the storm in eight countries.
We were never in danger of water in the house or the garage and the main reason we stayed at the Cottage @ Creek View was to observe the water levels.
Joe Purdue completed the dock last night and this morning moved the pile driver off to the next job. Joe was very fortunate this morning was dead calm so he was able to push it out the creek without incident, coming in at low tide conditions the wind ran it a ground a couple of times. Be sure to to check the Dock Page for more photos.
While were snorkeling in the Grand Cayman, our crews are hard at work here at the Cottage at Creek View.
Joe and his crew begin putting in the first pilings.
While Joe fiddles with the big timbers the
framing crew is hard at work on the garage addition. Chad, Mike and little Chris are framing the
structure and they have a had great weather in the hight 60s. Its been great fun watching from the Islands via web camera as there whistle while they work and listen to Rush Limbaugh.
The dock builder called on Tuesday to let us know he was ready to start, and would be delivering materials on Wednesday. Unfortunately were were headed out of town to the Cayman Islands. Therefore our recording of this event is going to be limited to some WebCam 
photos for the first couple of days. Joe Purdue the dock build, leaves Friday for a week to attend his sons graduation on a from the Air Force academy and we both will be back in town for the remained of the construction.
