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I am a snow wimp. I have not always been a snow wimp. I grew up in Wisconsin. I lived in Green Bay (hard core Wisconsin) for a few years. I lived in Akron Ohio for a few years… even Akron gets a lot more snow than Columbus… those darn Great Lakes the dot the eastern Mid-West (sometimes referred to as the Great Lakes States) make a big difference when it snows.

Columbus Ohio seldom gets a lot of snow in comparison to areas near the lakes. Whose snow is this? It is NOT ours.

What do you do on a snowy Saturday in Columbus Ohio when it is a level 2 snow emergency? And the surrounding counties are level 3?

Twitter…

former Columbusite Chris Anderson now in the Dayton area about pets in the snow:

chrisanderson @MaureenMcCabe My in laws’ Yorkie Poo is the same way. He loved the 5″ snow last night but is all business today with 10-12″ on the ground.

Tom Royce in Atlanta who went to school at Denison in Central Ohio:

TomRoyce @MaureenMcCabe I spent a few years in Granville, so I remember central Ohio. Sunbathing in the morning, snow in the afternoon.

Carole Cohen in Cleveland (I tried to give back their weather)

Clevecarole @MaureenMcCabe I refuse to take ownership for snow lol. And I live west of the River so not in the snowbelt. Except today we are all in it

Missy Caulk in Ann Arbor MI:

missycaulk @MaureenMcCabe Us too on the snow, who wants to look at houses in the snow? not many and none of our client

My friend Toby in the City of Delaware about us driving to Michigan in the blizzard:

RealtorToby @MaureenMcCabe You don’t want to do that. 23 north of Delaware - at Waldo - will be a disaster. It is bad when we have 1″, what alone 12″

Twitter.

Do you Twitter?

I do. I am @MaureenMcCabe on Twitter.

I still like Twitter better than most social media. I like Twitter more than Facebook where I have a profile but not much more. I like Twitter waaaay more than MySpace where I have a membership but no profile.

It took me a long time to like Twitter. It was not like at first sight.

I tried to embed the YouTube video but am having trouble so here’s the link:

Twitter in plain English

Continuing the wet basement series this very wet Central Ohio morning. Flash flood warnings in Central Ohio. Heavy rains all night. Super Dry Basement guy’s (he wrote the book on Super Dry Basements) Wet Basement Quiz that he e-mail spammed me with says:

“Question #10: I’ve heard about a lot of scare tactics and High pressure sales being used by Waterproofing companies. Is there an honest contractor that can be trusted? ”

No answer? There was no answer to that question on the email spam. I looked at his website and there’s no answer to question 10 there either.

I think the quiz itself sounds like scare tactics.

Scare tactics?

I met a Central Ohio basement water proofing celebrity once, Norm,  Ron the Basement Doctor of JD Basement Systems . We had a couple of offices in the Worthington Real Living HER office that flooded in heavy rains. My office was one of them… the company kept trying different things to fix it and finally (after years of the problem) brought in JD Basement Systems to get it fixed.

Norm Ron is pictured in the link above at the top of their website.  Norm Ron is on their TV commercials.

When I met Norm Ron did I ask for his autograph?

No.

I gave him a piece of my mind over the one employee of his company I’d ever met. The guy from JD Basements was one of four contractors called in to give an estimate on a repair to a crawl space on a “little old ladies” house… the representative tried to sell a big job rather than give an estimate on the repair an engineer had outlined based on the home inspection.

Their estimate for the repair fifteen times the cost of the repair that was requested by the buyer and outlined by a home inspector (an engineer.) Fifteen times the cost of the repair that was estimated by the other contractors who gave the seller estimates. Fifteen times the cost of the repair that was completed. Why was the estimate so much higher? The representative of JD Basement Systems got creative. He did not think the home inspector had suggested the best repair. He went into a big “what if” scenario based on ??? He put on quite a show for the audience of a little old lady home seller, her listing agent and the buyers agent.

When I met Norm  Ron, he apologized and asked me who the representative of his company was. This salesman was no longer with the company (I called in looking for him to verify it.) JD Basement Systems call their people inspectors on their website:

“The Basement Doctor”®, J&D Basement Systems has some of the finest individuals out in the field serving our customers. Our inspectors would be happy to visit your home to complete your FREE Estimate. Please select names from the following drop-down menu to view our inspector biographies. “

Do representatives of water proofing companies sell a job? Use scare tactics? Some do. Some of the best do. If I had to use someone I would use a company like Norm’s Ron’s. I would still be wary of the “inspectors” selling a job.

Wet Basement Quiz Question #8

Wet Basement Quiz Question 7

Wet Basement Quiz Questions 5 & 6

Wet Basement Quiz Question 4

Wet Basement Quiz Question 3

Wet Basement Quiz Question 2

Central Ohio Wet Basement Quiz…

What happened to question number 9?

“You have been tagged with a blog meme. Please share 7 interesting things about yourself and share this with 7 Active Rainers who also have outside blogs. Here is my post, http://blog.myclosingspace.com/2008/03/so-diane-tagged-me-with-meme.html.”

No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No!

Thanks for thinking of me Mark but I am all memed out. I was memed twice with this same meme in February… once by Lola Audu of Grand Rapids Michigan and a few days later by Wayne Long from Columbus Georgia…

There were not 7 interesting things about me to share in February… much less 14 and certainly not 21.

Meme Madness - February 8, 2008

Curses Memed Again February 5, 2008

Visit the meme on Mark’s My Closing Space site…

What is a meme? Joseph Ferrara on Sellsius°Real Estate Blog defined meme:

“A meme (rhymes with dream) is a catch phrase representing a contagious idea that spreads virally in a culture, like transparency, Web 2.0, Long Tail or maybe unzillowable. The word comes from the Greek meaning “mimic”. In the blogosphere, it’s a game of topic tag. You answer the topic question and pass it on to others to do the same. “