Posted on 01/19/2023 1:07:18 AM PST by blueplum
Rep. Greg Steube (R-Fla.) sustained multiple injuries following an accident at his home on Wednesday afternoon, his office announced in a statement on Twitter.
The Twitter statement did not provide additional details about the nature of the accident but urged people to “ pray for the Congressman and his family.”
According to a report by Florida Politics, Steube was carrying out “routine home maintenance” when he fell nearly 25 feet from his roof to the ground....
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Taking down Christmas decorations?
That’s why you hire people, if you can afford it.
A smaller ranch house, but a fair 20 or so feet . . . . blind (because the black tar paper obstructed my vision).
SOMEhow, I landed on my feet . . . . . forever back pain since.
Worse now at 75
Prayers for your quick and complete healing, Greg . . . in Jesus' name, amen.
Amen
and if you hire someone make sure they have their own liability insurance so you don’t get sued if they fall off
Yes and equipment.
There are somethings I would either stop doing or do much more away from the winter season, such as Christmas lights. Once their up, they stay up.
Christmas has nothing to do with lights on the house. Bad idea.
Amen from another Can do, A type of guy.
I was/am a can do guy. But, I have learned after many years that there is a time and place to “call the guy”. For example there are a group of college aged people that will come around and take down your Christmas decorations for a very reasonable price you get them back all wound up neatly in a box and they go right on the shelf for next year. A guy I used to work with fell off the ladder taking down Christmas decorations and it was a life altering injury when he stepped off the 4th rung of the ladder.
It sounds cold but I’d rather have the wheelchair ramp at the handyman’s house than at my house.
Yes when we have a four seat majority, we must celebrate these idiots. Just stop. We don’t have the luxury of this type of behavior. If we had 30 seats maybe.
The peak of the barn roof is over 4 stories up.
I have scaffolds for much of it, and rent a boom lift for the rest.
I have railings for all of the scaffolds.
When I go off the boom lift (seldom) or scaffold (often), I wear a harness tied in such that the greatest I can fall is a foot or so.
The safety equipment is well worth the extra money.
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He’s Mine!! Prayers!!
prayers up for your guy :)
After falling fifteen feet or so and cracking my pelvic bone a few years ago on the farm, I invested in a man lift. Though expensive, it one of the greatest investments I have made. Yesterday, I was up checking on clogged gutters. I’m also rebuilding a shed and there is nothing like working off a caged platform. Expensive ‘toy,’ yes, but after hobbling around for weeks with that cracked hip, the lift has come to be priceless. Just the annual tree-trimming tasks on the farm make it worthwhile.
Many a good man has been killed by a ladder.
At my age, I am extremely cautious on them. I have a weather station, and I installed it on my aerial on top of my house, which is simply a one story ranch.
But I had to make the trip up there via a ladder any time I needed to change the batteries, and I know, no matter how careful I am...something will eventually happen.
So I 3D printed a new holder for the components and placed it on top of my collapsable flagpole.
Even small ladders can be dangerous. I have a shed with a concrete floor, and an attic reached from the inside via a step stool (three rungs and a platform type).
Well, I was descending, not thinking much and I stepped off from the second rung up instead of the first rung, fell hard onto the concrete floor after bouncing off and caving in the paneling.
I lay there realizing just how damned lucky I was. If I had fallen in a different way, it would have happened so fast I could have been killed or severely injured on that concrete floor.
We gotta be careful. I am all in on being a can-do guy, but I recognize, my entire life, I have always been accident prone.
Being accident prone near Seventy is different from being accident prone near Twenty!
Given the rest of the info at the link, should we really believe the explanation for the injuries...?
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