TNTLady

Hey @no ma'am.

Several delays so contractor has not been able to start putting up the metal. Big sigh................

Cant sleep...

Metal was unloaded last Friday and metal work was supposed to start today but my builder discovered that some of the new bolts were a bit off. Todays site work consisted of cutting and drilling concrete and setting new bolts with epoxy designed for this type of application.  A temporary electric pole was set and we arestill waiting on the electric company to set a new pole and get electricity to the site. Little setbacks but sooner or later this building is going up!  God will see to that! Im not gonna stress.

8 hours ago, flat rock stan said:

Congratulations!  Long time since the tornado huh

 Yes sir and now picking out tile for the office, kitchen and bath area and checking out shop floor epoxy coating for the work area makes it more real.

8 hours ago, TintDude said:

 

Way to go.  They really had you jumping through hoops to get here.

Four months of jumping through hoops! Im so ready for my shop to be a reality!

Too excited! Building begins tomorrow if it doesnt rain!! 

Its really looking good @coast2coasttinting! ^

Well it looks a lot better now! Good job!

I like your shop building @coast2coasttinting! 

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Do it right the first time

3 hours ago, TintWizard said:

TNTLady, you are an inspiration to all male and delay tinters be them newbies ir veteran tinters .
Keep on keeping on and May you be blessed with abundance !

Thank you @ TintWizard, those are very kind words.  Im just doing what I have always done and that is to first trust in God and second pursue my passion, working on autos! I am very blessed to have VERY good insurance that has already wrote me the check and it is sitting in the bank waiting on the contractors and city to make it happen! No worries here as I really don't have to work anymore and having vacation time in the summer is a first!  I work because I love what I do and so many of my lifelong customers are my really good friends. They showed me how much I am loved by showing up the night of and the day after the tornado with gloves, food and water, trailers, shoulder to cry on, arms full of loving hugs. I'll continue to tint for them and to testify of God's Loving Grace and protection for I can do ALL things through Him Who strengthens ME! Philippians 4:13

On 6/7/2017 at 0:40 AM, Stewy said:

Sounds great! It's weird how things end up working out. I was injured at my old job and I thought I was screwed. Tinting gave me a second chance.

 

Maybe try to add PPF or vinyl wrap?

I've thought about ppf for years but the market won't support that here. I've put ppf on my last two Tahoes and Yukon. I also have problems with my knees so getting down low and getting up is a problem for me nowdays. Got worse when I had my knee replaced over three years ago. Jacked my entire body up adjusting to my limited mobility. Now for vinyl there are soo many people doing vinyl here that I dont see me doing that at all.

Sure doesn't  look like much now but in 2-3 months it Will! 

On 6/3/2017 at 5:22 PM, flat rock stan said:

@TNTLady how goes it with you after the storm? 

Wishing you the best♡ anything I can help you with don't hesitate to ask. You are the best!!!!!!

Cheers

Stan

Thank you @flat rock stan! Goes without saying....I'm bored! I have worked all my life and always had plenty of work to do. I don't call all that paperwork and going through my losses work but drudgery. However, now the realization that I am going to have a new clean building to work in after 34 years is sinking in. New improved air system to reduce air contamination!! NEW TOOL BOX WITH TOOLS!!!!All new tint tools!!!  Loads of new film!!! I'm even going to paid while I cannot work.  WOWZERS!! I feel very fortunate that I have very good insurance. I've received almost the full amount insured as of Saturday and picked out my building plans and metal colors. The site has been completely cleared now so next step is for concrete work and plumbing to begin. I've already begun to replace my tools and looking at new ideas for more improvements to make in my work area.

Told my husband, now would be the time to go learn something new from other tinters. Just not sure how to go about that.

22 hours ago, no ma'am said:

In the end this is an opportunity to improve... but it's the little things that can be lost. You had a pretty sweet sign collection, ( I thought so ) and did the noid make it? I'd be proud to donate a metal sign for the rebuild! Please keep us up to date. @TNTLady

How right you are!! Yes, I lost 34 years of accumulated mementos but I'm good with that. Kind of cleansing!! All of my signs, which included some mint condition signs, were damaged and a few lost. Yes, the Noid and Mr. Green Jeans made it through the tornado and were found near by where I left them.

Saturday we couldn't start clearing stuff until the rain passed, 4 and a half inches more, but the crane needed to lift the beam couldn't make it due to all the area flooding. We were able to clear a LOT of stuff from the sight and gather up more signs and get everything shuffled over to a storage building. Sunday was spent trying to rest and do some laundry. I've been exhausted!! Today was spent back at the shop site avoiding reporter calls and messages for further interviews, taking pictures for insurance and contractors, walking around and looking for other items, trekking through the woods behind my shop where a portion of my shop stuff went into.  I found a few things along with a helper friend. Then the afternoon was spent meeting with contractors hammering out the details of insurance gobbled gook and working on ideas for improvements for the new building that will go up. Tomorrow will involve walking around looking for missed items that are still underneath walls that will be lifted tomorrow as a contractor comes in to lift the beam and begin the clear the concrete pad of all the steel, metal, wood and CRAP!!

I have insurance for the rebuild and will even be reimbursed for loss of work. I have had a dozen plus offers of buildings to go to rent free but will have to go take a look see at them all and decide where to set up temporarily until my new shop building is ready for me.

I'm excited to be getting a new building to celebrate thirty years in Muskogee! Not gonna lose sleep or cry over things lost. Lives were not lost during the entire tornadic event in town.

Today National Weather Service declared today that an F2 tornado did indeed hit Muskogee, mainly my building, and that we had a total of seven in our area that night alone. The sheet metal from the roof of my shop was found all the way to WalMart, a block away around the new shopping center on the other side of the woods. Crazy stuff!!

Thank you all for all the well wishes and hugs and support. Now if Tint Dude could come up with a tornadic medal to commemorate the survival of a tornado....

Thank you everyone for all the kind heartfelt well wishes. Hit the ground running today and was so blessed that a close friend and his son work for a great establishment that got the ball rolling on clearing things out of what is left of my shop. I bigger crew will come tomorrow to finish removal of personal things after shoring up and lifting the steel carefully. Insurance adjuster came and declared it a total lost and promised a check to get me up and going quickly again. So many of my business friends and customers rushed to come help, hug support us through it all. I was overwhelmed. Now we are going to try and get some more sleep although we are under another tornado threat this eve. Thanks again. God Bless you ALL!

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Thursday night a tornado struck Muskogee Oklahoma and my shop took a direct hit and is a total loss. My steel building was crumpled like a tin can...a total loss. Husband and I were home about to go to sleep thinking we had dodged the bullet when the news channel flashed a picture of my corner of the world and I could clearly see my building was gone. We dressed and drove to town, my phone blowing up as we went. I finally took one phone call and a friend was standing in my parking lot telling me what he saw. My shop was completely destroyed he said. I cried all the way to town and to my shop. So many of my friends were there wanting to help, console me, offers of help tomorrow. We could do nothing as gas was rushing from my torn gas meter and electric lines down everywhere. Couldnt even reach my film as it lay visible under a wall. My  customers truck severely damaged and the only thing not moved strangely enough. After many hugs, tears and offers to carry out what we could we were made to evacuate the area. 

I cant sleep. I know I will have to be back there early this am which is fast approaching. Glad I have insurance. The pits that I just got a shipment of film in yesterday. Thankful I have God on my side and a wonderfully supportive husband, friends and church family. 

My trust is in the Lord. My eyes are on Him. To God be ALL the Glory!

On ‎1‎/‎28‎/‎2017 at 5:56 PM, addicted to tint said:

 

On ‎1‎/‎27‎/‎2017 at 11:25 AM, Metro Films said:

 

Youve been tinting a long time and you dont have tools to take cars apart???? And your scared to take cars apart???? Dont sound like a tinter.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Really?? You gotta run him down because he doesn't do it your way?? SERIOUSLY??

On ‎1‎/‎27‎/‎2017 at 8:16 PM, Metro Films said:

To me it was the abc's of tint. Then came the two stage.

On ‎1‎/‎28‎/‎2017 at 5:56 PM, addicted to tint said:

Plenty installers don't like to take things apart.  And are pretty darn good at installing without doing so.

 Me included! I've been tinting for over 34 years!

I'm thinking...I've got a good excuse to shut the doors if one of those comes through my shop. LHORTY I don't even want to mess with one of them. I'm sure I could do it...just really don't want the headache that would come with it.

Nice!

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