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I have a can of drylok original with a lot left but I see that the can says I should buy the floor drylok for durability. No one really goes in my basement besides my 2 cats to go to the litter box. Otberwise my basement is only used for storage and I only go down to organize or clean occasionally. I was wondering if I can try the original drylok on the floor or if that is an absolutely terrible idea. Anybody have any experience with this, or have a different product they have had a good experience with? My house is over a hundred years old and the basement is unfinished. there is no sump pump but I use a dehumidifier. There is never any standing water or flooding. It’s humid but I wouldn’t call it damp.

This is the line that brings fresh water to your home. The main water pipe starts at your water meter and travels underground, through your yard and comes into your home either through your basement wall, your crawlspace or through the concrete in your slab. In many older homes, this pipe is made of copper, pvc, galvanized steel, or the dreaded “blue poly.” Depending on the material, this can be troublesome. For example, in the ground, copper oxidizes (think green rust). Galvanized steel rusts terribly, releasing rust particles into your drinking water. Not to mention that all that rust causes potentially serious leaking issues. PVC has a tendency to crack with temperature changes. And blue polybutylene? Well, if you aren’t one of the hundreds of thousands of homeowners who suffered through this plumbing nightmare of a product you are lucky!

The global Waterproofing Chemicals market size reached USD 24 billion in 2022. Looking forward, Exactitude Consultancy expects the market to reach USD 62 billion by 2028, exhibiting a growth rate (CAGR) of 11% during 2023-2028.
The "Waterproofing Chemicals Market" is expected to experience significant growth from 2023 to 2029. This report provides valuable insights into the industry segments, types, and applications, as well as the latest developments, business opportunities, challenges, trends, and constraints faced by top manufacturers. With a comprehensive analysis of geographical regions, growth rates, and industry revenue, the report offers a qualitative and quantitative analysis of professional profiles, expansion plans, and industry size, as well as share valuations across all regions. The Waterproofing Chemicals market research provides a comprehensive view of the industry, including both qualitative and quantitative analyses.
The report methodical explanation of current market trends to assist the users to entail in-depth market analysis. The report focuses on a detailed analysis of major market players that are functioning in the global Waterproofing Chemicals market to study the market sales, value, and share. Top revenue-generating key manufacturers are involved in the report. Moreover, a systemic evaluation of drivers, restraints, and opportunities is framed in the report.
For Detailed Information of the Market, Download PDF Sample Report:
https://exactitudeconsultancy.com/reports/1620/waterproofing-chemicals-market/#request-a-sample
Year Considered to Estimate the Market Size:
· Base Year of the Analysis: 2022
· Historical Period: 2017-2022
· Forecast Period: 2023-2029
Competitive Landscape
The Waterproofing Chemicals market competitive landscape provides details by competitor. Details included are company overview, company financials, revenue generated, market potential, investment in research and development, new market initiatives, regional presence, company strengths and weaknesses, product launch, product width and breadth, application dominance. The above data points provided are only related to the companies’ focus related to Waterproofing Chemicals market.
Leading Key players included in this Report are:
Major players in the Waterproofing Chemicals Market are identified through secondary research and their market revenues determined through primary and secondary research are: Pidilite Industries Ltd, BASF, Polygel Industries, ExxonMobil Chemicals, Dow Chemical Company, E.I. DuPont De Nemours & Co, Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Company, Toray Industries, Evonik Industries, Eastman Chemical Company, Choksey Chemicals Pvt Ltd, Tri and Others.
Waterproofing Chemicals Market Segmentation:
Waterproofing Chemicals Market by Product, 2023-2028, (In USD Billion)
Bitumen
PVC
EPDM
TPO
PTFE
Silicone
Waterproofing Chemicals Market by Technology, 2023-2028, (In USD Billion)
Preformed Membrane
Coatings & LAMs
Integral Systems
Waterproofing Chemicals Market by Application, 2023-2028, (In USD Million)
Roofing & walls
Floors & basements
Waste & water management
Tunnel liners
Others
Among the report’s primary offers are the following:
· Direct-To-Consumer Waterproofing Chemicals definition, synopsis, and product specification are included in the research. It also identifies market-related obstacles and opportunities.
· An in-depth study of the market for Waterproofing Chemicals products, including regional evaluations and competitive analyses on a global, regional, and local scale.
· Indicators influencing market scenarios, development patterns, growth plans, as well as major regional enterprises fundamental to the market, are identified and highlighted.
· A comprehensive section on the market’s competitive landscape includes company profiles, strategic activities, and market shares for the industry’s major competitors.
· Various macro- and micro-level influences on the Global Waterproofing Chemicals market is identified and analyzed in the study.
· Offers a detailed overview of the leading participants in the industry, as well as an analysis of their present strategic goals and critical financial data.
Key Benefits:
⏩ This study gives a detailed analysis of drivers, restrains, opportunities and challenges limiting the market expansion of Waterproofing Chemicals market.
⏩ A descriptive analysis of demand-supply gap, estimation and forecast in the global Waterproofing Chemicals market.
⏩ Porter’s five forces model gives an in-depth analysis of buyers and suppliers, threats of new entrants & substitutes and competition amongst the key market players.
⏩ By understanding the value chain analysis, the stakeholders can get a clear and detailed picture of this Waterproofing Chemicals Market
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Has anyone done a basement walkout or similar project requiring concrete footings & a block wall, and have a contractor they’d recommend?
I’m planning to do the excavation myself and it’s not a big project, so I don’t want to hire a full service foundations company if someone has ‘a guy’. Any recommendations are greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Looking for suggestions: First time homeowner here. Bought the house just under 3 years ago as the second owners & the first had it for just over a year so still fairly new.
We just had a hard 3-4 days of rain around Denver, CO which is pretty rare - but towards the end of that we noticed the carpet in our finished basement had become soaked in the corner of the house away from our sump pump (which was working well the whole time). No water entry indications on any walls or trim boards, just seemed to be coming up from the carpet.
A plumber & restoration company that came out said they'd guess it was a crack in the foundation that water was making it's way in away from the walls so as to not leave any marks but was then making it's way into the carpet at the base. They said they'd have to take out the trim boards to be able to know for sure.
A rep from the development company just came out and had already said when we were scheduling "I'm pretty sure I already know what it is but I'll be out in a few days to check." Once here, she looked at outside walls for a few minutes and was in the basement for a total of about 180 seconds and said she's 99.9% sure it was an "overwhelmed perimeter drain" which wasn't pushing water away from the base as fast as it was coming in so water was able to seep through porous concrete & get to the carpet. I asked her how 2 others that looked said they'd have to get behind the walls to be sure but she could be positive without seeing anything & she said she's seen this so often that she would bet on it.
Crack in the foundation is still under developer warranty while "overwhelmed perimeter drain" is not so there's obvious motivation for them to push one over the other. Anyone else deal with anything like this & have a suggestion? I'm assuming we'll need an independent assessment done if we want to prove something that's under warranty but with no experience in this area, not sure if this is actually super common etc. Thanks.
Ironically, I can say with 100% certainty it was not Bukake related this time :)

I read that container homes have about a 25 year lifespan. That’s already very few years for a “forever home”, but where I live in Miami I suspect it could be even fewer years. It’s a very humid climate with a lot of rain in the summer and sun all year round. My question is hypothetical I’m here to hear other ideas!
What if I cover a container home with cement (or concrete) and then paint it with the kind of paint used for swimming pools? Cement has high thermal mass so I’m thinking it would help absorb the heat and keep the container cooler at least a bit.
Alternatively, what if I painted with pool paint or some other kind of waterproofing paint, then cemented, then pool paint again on the exterior.
Here’s the second part of my question… For the roof… I was thinking weatherproofing paint, and a green roof (that is, a roof with plants on it). Green roofs definitely help control heat inside of container homes but I would be nervous again about water from the plants. Any idea is to add a slanted element beneath the planters, so water slides down like a traditional A frame roof.
My thought process with all of this is to basically protect the container within a weatherproof shell. I could retouch cement and paint over the years so that’s why I thought this would be an effective method. I don’t know what else could be used, obviously wood would rot and metal would have the same issue as the container home itself. I imagine this wouldn’t compromise the “look” of the container either, since a few layers of cement wouldn’t hide the corrugated metal.
This is all just thoughts & ideas, I love talking about home design. Thanks!

I’m currently digging near my foundation to apply a sealant to the concrete. When my home was built adding a sealant to the foundation wasn’t required and there has been water intrusion into the crawl space. A french drain was put in and this has helped but when the clay soil becomes saturated the water swaps through the concrete. I’ve looked at a few products and I’d love opinions. One product is Drylok Extreme Waterproofer Concrete and Masonry Sealer. The advantage of this product is it is gray which will blend in well. The next product is Blue Max Basement Waterproofing Sealant. I’m hearing rubberized products are the way to go. I would at least want to paint the top part a different color as the blue would look odd.
Overall, effectiveness and longevity are the most important factors.
Has anyone worked with these products, especially for sealing a foundation?

My Merrel Moab 2 Tactical's are about to kick the bucket after 4-ish years of daily wear in datacenters, the back woods and snow.
Any other good recommendations for a Men's boot meeting the requirements below?

• Non-metallic toe or no additional toe protection
• Waterproof ( deal with a lot of snow & mud )
• Comfortable when standing on concrete for 6-10 hours as well as trekking along pole lines.
• Side-Zipper
• 8"-12" sides
• Available in US Sizes 9.5-11.5 (I'm typically a 10.5 or 10W)
• Under $250/pair

I've had the Bate's Tactical's in the past, but they usually only lasted about 2 years/pair.

I am under contract on a house that had the basement take water recently after a historic rainstorm. I am getting quotes for a full basement/foundation waterproofing job. First quote came in at $46k.
Quote includes: Debris Removal, Concrete, Flatwork (~130sq ft), Excavation (Interior 17.25cubic yards and Exterior 78 cubic yards), Trench Shoring (94ft), 20mil liner (575 sq ft), Exterior drain (95 ft), sump pump, and transportation.
I live in metro Denver. Anyone have experience with this type of job/quote amount? Based on the research I've done, this actually seems relatively 'normal' for the job.
fwiw, I'm taking the quote to the owner and they are going to have to remediate or I am just going to back out.

The global Construction Chemicals market size reached USD 34.21 billion in 2022. Looking forward, Exactitude Consultancy expects the market to reach USD 54.67 billion by 2029, exhibiting a growth rate (CAGR) of 6.8% during 2023-2029.
The "Construction Chemicals Market" is expected to experience significant growth from 2023 to 2029. This report provides valuable insights into the industry segments, types, and applications, as well as the latest developments, business opportunities, challenges, trends, and constraints faced by top manufacturers. With a comprehensive analysis of geographical regions, growth rates, and industry revenue, the report offers a qualitative and quantitative analysis of professional profiles, expansion plans, and industry size, as well as share valuations across all regions. The Construction Chemicals market research provides a comprehensive view of the industry, including both qualitative and quantitative analyses.
The report methodical explanation of current market trends to assist the users to entail in-depth market analysis. The report focuses on a detailed analysis of major market players that are functioning in the global Construction Chemicals market to study the market sales, value, and share. Top revenue-generating key manufacturers are involved in the report. Moreover, a systemic evaluation of drivers, restraints, and opportunities is framed in the report.
For Detailed Information of the Market, Download PDF Sample Report:
https://exactitudeconsultancy.com/reports/4139/construction-chemicals-market/#request-a-sample
Year Considered to Estimate the Market Size:
· Base Year of the Analysis: 2022
· Historical Period: 2017-2022
· Forecast Period: 2023-2029
Competitive Landscape
The Construction Chemicals market competitive landscape provides details by competitor. Details included are company overview, company financials, revenue generated, market potential, investment in research and development, new market initiatives, regional presence, company strengths and weaknesses, product launch, product width and breadth, application dominance. The above data points provided are only related to the companies’ focus related to Construction Chemicals market.
Leading Key players included in this Report are:
Major players in the Construction Chemicals Market are identified through secondary research and their market revenues determined through primary and secondary research are: BASF SE, Arkema SA, Ashland Inc., Fosroc International Limited, Mapie S.p.A, Pidilite Industries, RPM International Inc., Sika AG, The Dow Chemical Company and W.R. Grace & Company and Others.
Construction Chemicals Market Segmentation:
Construction Chemicals Market by Type, 2023-2029, (USD Million)
Concrete Admixtures
Waterproofing & Roofing
Repairing
Flooring
Sealants & Adhesives
Others
Construction Chemicals Market by Application, 2023-2029, (USD Million)
Residential
Industrial
Infrastructure
Repair Structures
Among the report’s primary offers are the following:
· Direct-To-Consumer Construction Chemicals definition, synopsis, and product specification are included in the research. It also identifies market-related obstacles and opportunities.
· An in-depth study of the market for Construction Chemicals products, including regional evaluations and competitive analyses on a global, regional, and local scale.
· Indicators influencing market scenarios, development patterns, growth plans, as well as major regional enterprises fundamental to the market, are identified and highlighted.
· A comprehensive section on the market’s competitive landscape includes company profiles, strategic activities, and market shares for the industry’s major competitors.
· Various macro- and micro-level influences on the Global Construction Chemicals market is identified and analyzed in the study.
· Offers a detailed overview of the leading participants in the industry, as well as an analysis of their present strategic goals and critical financial data.
Key Benefits:
⏩ This study gives a detailed analysis of drivers, restrains, opportunities and challenges limiting the market expansion of Construction Chemicals market.
⏩ A descriptive analysis of demand-supply gap, estimation and forecast in the global Construction Chemicals market.
⏩ Porter’s five forces model gives an in-depth analysis of buyers and suppliers, threats of new entrants & substitutes and competition amongst the key market players.
⏩ By understanding the value chain analysis, the stakeholders can get a clear and detailed picture of this Construction Chemicals Market
Frequently Asked Questions:
☑ What does this report covers?
☑ Does this report estimates the current market size?
☑ What are the key Segments offered in this report?
☑ Which market dynamics are covered in this report?
☑ Does this report offer customization?
About Us
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Room in MIL suite for retiree in finished concrete basement, used as an office (low traffic) and for cat litter boxes.
Due to water infiltration, in addition to foundation repair, mold remediation will be performed (including disposal of current carpet & padding).
Open to any of the following replacement flooring options: carpet/pad, laminate (as foundation repair carries 10 year warranty) or sheet vinyl.
Seeking unbiased pros and cons for each of the above options for this application, please. TIA!

EDIT:
Thank you all for your insights! I've come to the conclusion that I was a bit too gullible when reading through this list for the first time, and should have dismissed many of the points instantly.
Most of the tasks are indeed:

• regularly outsourced to professionals
• monthly, annually or even less often occurring
• rooted in toxic masculinity
• not even really tasks anyway? like the jar opening u/screenee mentioned

So thanks again for opening my eyes on this and seeing the actual value of this list Mr. Farrell made! And also on not creating the female equivalent I was asking for, which would rightly be very toxic as said by u/faeduster
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So there was this post on another sub about how men and women generally divide tasks around the house / the relationship. And how men do more housework than women realise. There was a list added to the post which was created by a man called Warren Farrell called the male housework list.
While reading that list I was surprised by the massive amount of things on there! My second surprise was that I, the woman in our relationship, still do most of the relevant tasks of this list. But that's perhaps something I should talk to him about, because I feel like I'm burning up with the mental and physical load of all the housework I do. Especially since I'm the also the one with the full-time job who brings in the majority of our income...
The total housework list I had in my head was way shorter than just Mr Farrell's male housework list. This was my list:

• grocery shopping
• cooking
• dishes
• house cleaning
• washing clothes
• waste management
• gardening
• property maintenance

Since this male housework list is way more extensive than I could have imagined, I was wondering what a female equivalent of this list would be. Because I must be missing something here and might be doing even more things I didn't imagine I was doing.

So my question is:

What are all the female coded (hidden) household/relationship tasks that women perform?

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Here is the list that Farrell came up with:

WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE TIME DO YOU VS. YOUR PARTNER DO THESE CHORES?
Activities most likely to break an arm, leg, or neck, or to crack a skull: In your relationship, who climbs tall ladders or checks out the roof? For example, who uses ladders to do house painting (e.g., reaching for a spot we’ve missed that’s too far away on a homemade scaffold on a windy day), or to clean outside windows; or to go into the attic? Who shovels wet snow off a roof to avoid roof damage, resulting in many men slipping off the roof every winter?
A man who falls off a roof or ladder is lucky if he breaks only an arm; some men, though, are paralyzed for life, or killed; others find shoveling snow off a roof leads to problems that get them classified in one of the next two categories.

1. Activities most likely to trigger heart attacks: Shoveling snow off a driveway or sidewalk; pushing a car that’s out of gas off a crowded street into the gas station; playing tag, soccer, or basketball with the kids for a “little too long” while trying to teach the children that a parent can be a playmate too; or carrying a sleepy child from an upstairs bed to the backseat of a car and back into bed again without waking up the child, only to find Dad’s heartbeat getting erratic and pain thrusting through his arm.
   
2. Activities most likely to cause lower back problems and hernia operations: Moving furniture or twisting his back as he juggles a heavy suitcase into the backseat of a two-door car (or behind other suitcases in a trunk); or trying to carry a IV or a computer up a down staircase; or moving the refrigerator or some file cabinets; or moving tables at a church event or picnic.
   
3. Assembly: Mail-order products, toys, bikes, furniture, bookcases, beds; putting up kids’ plastic pools, backyard tents.
   
4. Barbecuing: Shopping for barbecue, charcoal, propane; basting, marinating, cooking; cleaning up of grill, tongs, ashes, etc.
   
5. Bodyguard: at home (e.g., who usually checks it out in the middle of the night when you and your partner are awakened by a noise that sounds like someone has just broken into your home, and you know they could have a gun?); in public places (who plays bodyguard when nightfall turns a beautiful park into a dangerous park or a quaint side street into a dangerous alley; or when a lonely hiking trail proves to be a rattlesnake haven; or when a ski slope becomes an avalanche?). We've all read stories of a man saving a woman from a burning house or a raging river or a crashed car. Women often save children in these situations—and even lift cars to save children. Although I’ve asked over a million people (on IV and radio) to send me a story of a woman risking her life to save an adult man, so far, no stories. Every time a woman and man walk together in a public place, he unconsciously serves as an unpaid bodyguard.
   
6. Camping: It starts with taking psychological responsibility for avoiding disaster (checking weather predictions and safety of the location, buying correct tent and camping gear, taking responsibility for not getting lost, knowing how to use a compass, etc.), then carrying the primary backpack (often including the stove and a kerosene lamp), erecting the tent, dig¬ ging drainage trenches, gathering firewood, building the fire, hoisting food away from animals. The man is often the camping home buyer, home mover, and homemaker.
   
7. Car buying: Price negotiation, Consumer Guide/Blue Book- type research.
   
8. Car maintenance and repair: Checking hoses, belts, tire pressures, vacuuming inside, applying Armor All; comparisons of prices with mechanics, tire changing (see also Emergencies).
   
9. Carpentry: From putting up shelves (in garage, basement, and closets) to repairing loose fence slats, to making bookcases, to building a doghouse.
   
10. Christmas: Putting up lights on house and tree; tree purchase, set-up, dismantling and disposal; retrieving boxes of ornaments from dusty attic or storage area.
    
11. “Male cleaning”: Car washing (and waxing); cleaning all painting tools for reuse (brushes, rollers, pans, guides); cleaning out the basement, attic, fireplace and gutters (the darkest, dirtiest, hottest and coldest parts of the house); cleaning filters of air conditioning and heating units; cleaning yard; bathing of dogs; and, if there’s a pool or Jacuzzi. . . . (See also: Barbecuing; Diaper Changing, Male Equivalents of; Guns and Weapons; Activities most likely to break. . . . )
    
12. Coaching-as-child care: Baseball (1-Ball, CAP Leagues, Little League), softball (e.g., Bobby Soxers), football (Pop Warner), roller hockey, field hockey, ice hockey, soccer; more informal coaching-as-child care via "playing together” in basketball, or throwing, catching, and hitting a ball; instructions in individualized sports such as tennis; instructions in self- defense (aikido, boxing, wrestling).
    
13. Computer buying: Researching best hardware and software; comparing prices, new vs. used markets, etc.
    
14. Confrontations—with neighbors or strangers: “Go tell the neighbors their dogs barking too loud.” Or, you’ve just gotten into a car accident with a stranger; who approaches the other driver when everyone is emotionally off center?
    
15. Dead animal disposal: DAD quickly comes to mean Dead Animal Disposer when the gerbil dies, the rat’s been trapped, when the mouse has been lead into temptation, or when the dog’s been run over and the street has blood all over. What’s worse for some dads, though, is having to kill the almost-dead animal—when DAD means Dying Animal Disposer.
    
16. Decks: Building, sanding, staining, sealing.
    
17. Diaper changing, male equivalents of: Plunging a backed-up toilet; wiping up a child's vomit when carsick on a vacation; cleaning up after dog doo from own dog and neighbors'.
    
18. Digging: Holes and ditches, removing of boulders, tree stumps, etc.
    
19. Dinner when company’s visiting: Meat carving, wine opening, cocktail making (careful guys, most women still do most everything else when company's visiting).
    
20. Disciplining of kids: "Wait till Daddy comes home."
    
21. Dragon-killing—modern version: Swatting flies, stepping on roaches, squishing spiders—all without a sword (or, for pacifist performers, removing the spider without hurting it!).
    
22. Driving: To and from functions that both sexes go to together, especially when conditions are hazardous (e.g., when caught in rush hour in a strange city; when caught in snow on an icy mountain road; when caught in heavy rain, wind, and fog at night, or when in a foreign country), or when both are exhausted or have had a bit too much to drink; on long trips, especially late at night while the family sleeps; or on a motorcycle (have you ever seen a woman on a motorcycle with a man hanging on?). The automobile and motorcycle are the modern-day white horse. Like the man on the white horse, his role involves more accidents; the man on the white horse, though, never had to worry about a DU I citation!
    
23. Emergency prevention: In home (e.g., noticing and repairing frayed wires, plugs, sockets, smoke detectors); in car (putting chains on tires; being certain all the cars' fluids [oil, transmission, anti-freeze] are being changed on schedule, tool kit and flares are adequate, flashlight has batteries, etc.); via nature (battening down windows, putting sand bags in the trunk before a blizzard, making sure trees aren't creating a hazard to house or people should a storm arise), on the town (making sure there’s cash in the wallet and gas in the car).
    
24. When emergencies arise despite prevention: Sandbagging; changing a tire on a cold night in the rain on a dangerous part of the road in the bad part of town; taking the walk for five gallons of gas when the car runs out; or risking putting the battery cable on the wrong side of the battery.
    
25. Post-emergencies: Roof repair (shingles, holes, leaks, etc.); removal of fallen trees and branches; rebuilding and repairing after damage; or arranging for, supervising and helping with rebuilding and repair.
    
26. Fences: Building fences from stone or wood, or installing a wire fence.
    
27. Fire building, wood chopping and carting wood indoors while not getting the carpet dirty.
    
28. Garbage: Real men take out the garbage because, you see, it's in their genes to know how to use the garbage can cover as a shield should anything happen in that journey from the castle to the street. If he takes out the recycled items and the garden waste, it’s just because he wants to protect his turf of being the garbage man (excuse me, waste management engineer).
    
29. Gas/electric failures: Resetting clocks and circuit switches; relighting pilot lights; troubleshooting.
    
30. Gift-giving as a contribution to maintaining the romance: We often say men aren’t romantic, but we forget that it is men who are more likely to give the flowers she likes; the diamonds with the right 4 Cs (carat size, clarity, cut and color [then he worries about the 5th C—cost]); the earrings with the hypoallergenic studs; the perfume with the scent she prefers; the right-size ring for the correct finger with the right stone and her preferred cut; or to choose a restaurant that fits her definition of romantic, arranging the occasion, taking her there, and paying. Many a man has never had even one of these things done for him by even one woman one time (just as some women have never had a man do their laundry, cook a meal, or even make a cup of tea).
    
31. Guns and weapon: Purchase, cleaning, usage, and safety for protecting family from thieves in city and from animals in rural areas.
    
32. Hanging: Of heavy pictures, wall hangings, clocks, phones (especially when molly bolts, toggle bolts, or drywall or plastic anchors are necessary)
    
33. Installation/hook-up: Of washer, dryer, computer, TV, cables, and antennas.
    
34. Life insurance: Purchasing and choice of carrier.
    
35. Risky investment management (stocks, joint ventures, rental property): The investments that inspire blame when they fail and induce stress even when they succeed.
    
36. Opening: Jars, doors, big boxes, paint cans, windows that are stuck or frozen.
    
37. Option generating: In many couples, the man generates the options, the woman generates the rejections. For example, he asks, “Where would you like to go for dinner?” She answers, “Anywhere.” “Chinese?” he offers. “We just had that,” she reminds. “Italian?” “loo heavy.” “How about that new place—what's its name?” he tries. “I hear that's expensive.” When it comes to restaurants and to movies, the man often generates the options and the woman often selects even immediately after she's said, “It makes no difference.” Option-generating often involves having one's ideas rejected, which can be emotionally taxing.
    
38. Painting: Inside and outside of the home, and the laying down of masking tape, sheets, and other painting preparation (See also: Male cleaning and Activities most likely to break an arm . . . ).
    
39. Patio and sidewalk making: And sealing over cracks, requiring cement mixing, building of frame, making it level, and living with every mistake because it's “laid on concrete.”
    
40. Planting: New trees, bushes, larger plants.
    
41. Plastering, spackling, grouting, caulking, and mortaring: And creating the plaster, spackle, grout and mortar mixtures.
    
42. Poisons, exposure to: Use of insecticides to spray for ants and roaches; or to spray trees, flowers, garden vegies.
    
43. Programming: The VCR (“Honey, before we leave, I can't miss the special on male housework; would you program the VCR?”), or the CD player, the telephone speed dial.
    
44. Pumping gas, paying for gas, changing oil: When there's both a man and woman in the car, I notice men pump the gas about 80 percent of the time in Northeast 8c West Coast urban areas and university towns, and almost 100 percent of the time anywhere else.
    
45. Reading the business and financial pages: To get a feel for business trends that may affect career decisions and information related to investment decisions (which may just look like him “goofing off reading the paper” but is the equivalent of a woman reading recipes in Better Homes & Gardens or Family Circle [still the best selling magazines to women]). On the other hand, guys, the sports pages don't count!
    
46. Remodeling: Taking down walls, putting in windows, finishing garage or basement, and, for better men than I, building entire new rooms.
    
47. Repairs: Toilets, faucets, plumbing, electrical, window screens, sliding glass and screen doors, problems with cabinets, doors, etc.
    
48. Sharpening: Knives, mower blades, pruning shears.
    
49. Shopping for: Paint, hardware, lumber, spackle, lawnmower, tools, much of the "bulk” shopping (Office Depot, Home Depot, Price Club, CostCo, etc.) (See Also: Computer buying; Car buying; Stereo aTid video buying; and Life insurance, for additional "Male Shopping” categories)
    
50. Stereo and video buying: Hooking up, troubleshooting, repair arranging, and supervising.
    
51. Toy and bike care: Oiling, painting, and fixing kids' bikes, swing sets, jungle gyms, merry-go-rounds, and other outdoor play equipment.
    
52. Weather guard: Guarding a woman against exposure to rain, sleet, and snow by forfeiting his jacket to a woman who is cold even when he is also cold; walking between a woman and a street in which cars and trucks might splash water or slush onto their clothes; scraping ice and snow off a car windshield on a freezing morning; dropping the family off at a restaurant or movie when it's pouring, then parking and walking to the restaurant or theater in the rain (especially if no one has an umbrella); warming up the car before the family gets in it; bringing in the newspaper on a rainy morning; salting the driveway, sidewalk, and stairs when the rain has frozen over, so that if anyone falls, he does .‘(See Also: "Activities most likely to trigger heart attacks” and "Emergency” categories).
    
53. Yard work: Lawn mowing, fertilizing, weeding, clipping, leaf raking, tree trimming, etc.
    

Warren Farrell's male housework list came up here a couple months ago, so I figured I would transcribe it in full.
It comes from the book Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say. It's a relationship book about communication strategies that tackles a lot of the issues that come up in some of these gender discussions.
The author is a well known feminist and men's rights advocate who spent decades working as a professional marriage counselor.
One of the premises of the book is that marital conflict often comes from "political" messages in society that people internalise. A lot of which is the kind of stuff you hear from feminists pretty regularly today. Like the idea that women do all the work at home (they don't) and are unappreciated by men (which isn't true). Or the idea that they're being exploited and treated like slaves because they don't get paid (they obviously live off their husband's money).
Of course if you're a woman and you believe that, you might start harbouring resentment against your husband!
Farrell gives the example of ads saying things like "when was the last time your husband cooked?". And says that men might harbour resentment against their wives if ads instead said things like, "when was the last time your wife helped you clean the gutters?".
Men often don't notice what they do for their families themselves.
One study mentioned by Farrell found that women exaggerate the amount of time they spend doing chores by a factor of 3.
Whereas men underestimate their contributions by a full half.
So if a man estimates that he puts in 10 hours a week at home, in reality he's doing 20.
And if a woman estimates she's doing 60, in reality she's only doing 20 as well.
Sources:

F. Thomas Juster and Frank P. Stafford, “The Allocation of Time: Empirical Findings, Behavioral Models, and Problems of Measurement,” Journal of Economic Literature, vol. 29, June 1991, p. 484.
Martha S. Hill and F. Thomas Juster, "Constraints and Complementaries in Time Use," in Juster and Stafford 1985, pp. 429-70 as cited in Juster, ibid., Table 3 "Changes in Time Allocation in Five Societies, 1965-1980s."

Women of course do a lot at home. On average they spend more time doing housework and taking care of children than men. But that is changing now that more and more women work full-time.
Sources:

Arlie Hochschild, The Second Shift (New York: Avon Books, 1990), p. 248.
Robert VerBruggen. The Myth of the ‘Lazy’ Father (Institute for Family Studies, 2019), https://ifstudies.org/blog/the-myth-of-the-lazy-father. Total paid and unpaid labour for fathers with stay at home mums: 62 hours to mum's 46 hours; both work at least part time: fathers labour 62 hours to mum's 59 hours; both work full-time: fathers labour 63 hours to mum's 62 hours.

When you include paid labor, men actually do more work than women across the board. That includes stay at home situations, and full-time working couples. Data going back to the 1960s has shown that this is relatively constant across time, and between different countries.
Sources:

F. Thomas Juster and Frank P. Stafford, “The Allocation of Time: Empirical Findings, Behavioral Models, and Problems of Measurement,” Journal of Economic Literature, vol. 29, June 1991, p. 477. Her average hours both inside and outside the home add up to fifty-four (54.4); his, to fifty-eight (57.8).
Martha Hill, Patterns of Time Use in Time, Goods, and Well-Being (Ann Arbor, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, 1985), ed. F. Thomas Juster and Frank P. Stafford. See also Joseph H. Pleck, Working Wives of Working Husbands (Beverly Hills, Sage Publications, 1985), p. 41, table 2.3.
John P. Robinson, “Up Close and Personal,” American Demographics, Vol. 11, No. I 1, November 1989, p. 10. Men: 72.9 hours of leisure time; women: 74.7. Included in leisure time was time to eat, sleep, groom, take care of personal medical care, and other personal care, as well as the travel related to these activities.
John P. Robinson, "Americans on the Road,” American Demographics, September 1989, p. 10. Men commute four hours per week to women's two hours per week. Of course, working mothers with young children are likely to commute even less, and fathers, because of their income-producing responsibilities, to commute even more.
"For both moms and dads, more time spent on child care" (PEW RESEARCH CENTER, 2019), https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2019/06/12/fathers-day-facts/ft_18-05-01_fathersday_time/. 2016 dads: 61 hours per week; moms: 57. 1965 dads: 52.5 hours per week; moms: 51.
Robert VerBruggen. The Myth of the ‘Lazy’ Father (Institute for Family Studies, 2019), https://ifstudies.org/blog/the-myth-of-the-lazy-father. Average combined paid and unpaid labour for fathers: 59 hours to mum's 54 hours.

Many of these studies come to these conclusions despite exaggerating female tasks and downplaying male tasks (which is sometimes done intentionally). This is one of the reasons Farrell made his list in the first place. He compares it against a different list used by the radical feminist Arlie Hochschild in her book The Second Shift where she tries to cherry pick government data to prove that women effectively work two jobs, while men only work one.
But the reality is a man's contributions to his family don't stop at the workplace. There's an entire second shift that men do every day around (and outside) their homes as well. Women aren't the only ones who do chores for their families. The only difference is we systematically ignore the male side of this. Many men spend entire weekends, or take days off from work, to get their honey do lists accomplished. But for some reason, we view all of this very different from how we view housework done by women.
Here is the list that Farrell came up with:

WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE TIME DO YOU VS. YOUR PARTNER DO THESE CHORES?
1. Activities most likely to break an arm, leg, or neck, or to crack a skull: In your relationship, who climbs tall ladders or checks out the roof? For example, who uses ladders to do house painting (e.g., reaching for a spot we’ve missed that’s too far away on a homemade scaffold on a windy day), or to clean outside windows; or to go into the attic? Who shovels wet snow off a roof to avoid roof damage, resulting in many men slipping off the roof every winter?
A man who falls off a roof or ladder is lucky if he breaks only an arm; some men, though, are paralyzed for life, or killed; others find shoveling snow off a roof leads to problems that get them classified in one of the next two categories.
2. Activities most likely to trigger heart attacks: Shoveling snow off a driveway or sidewalk; pushing a car that’s out of gas off a crowded street into the gas station; playing tag, soccer, or basketball with the kids for a “little too long” while trying to teach the children that a parent can be a playmate too; or carrying a sleepy child from an upstairs bed to the backseat of a car and back into bed again without waking up the child, only to find Dad’s heartbeat getting erratic and pain thrusting through his arm.
3. Activities most likely to cause lower back problems and hernia operations: Moving furniture or twisting his back as he juggles a heavy suitcase into the backseat of a two-door car (or behind other suitcases in a trunk); or trying to carry a IV or a computer up a down staircase; or moving the refrigerator or some file cabinets; or moving tables at a church event or picnic.
4. Assembly: Mail-order products, toys, bikes, furniture, bookcases, beds; putting up kids’ plastic pools, backyard tents.
5. Barbecuing: Shopping for barbecue, charcoal, propane; basting, marinating, cooking; cleaning up of grill, tongs, ashes, etc.
6. Bodyguard: at home (e.g., who usually checks it out in the middle of the night when you and your partner are awakened by a noise that sounds like someone has just broken into your home, and you know they could have a gun?); in public places (who plays bodyguard when nightfall turns a beautiful park into a dangerous park or a quaint side street into a dangerous alley; or when a lonely hiking trail proves to be a rattlesnake haven; or when a ski slope becomes an avalanche?). We've all read stories of a man saving a woman from a burning house or a raging river or a crashed car. Women often save children in these situations—and even lift cars to save children. Although I’ve asked over a million people (on IV and radio) to send me a story of a woman risking her life to save an adult man, so far, no stories. Every time a woman and man walk together in a public place, he unconsciously serves as an unpaid bodyguard.
7. Camping: It starts with taking psychological responsibility for avoiding disaster (checking weather predictions and safety of the location, buying correct tent and camping gear, taking responsibility for not getting lost, knowing how to use a compass, etc.), then carrying the primary backpack (often including the stove and a kerosene lamp), erecting the tent, dig¬ ging drainage trenches, gathering firewood, building the fire, hoisting food away from animals. The man is often the camping home buyer, home mover, and homemaker.
8. Car buying: Price negotiation, Consumer Guide/Blue Book- type research.
9. Car maintenance and repair: Checking hoses, belts, tire pressures, vacuuming inside, applying Armor All; comparisons of prices with mechanics, tire changing (see also Emergencies).
10. Carpentry: From putting up shelves (in garage, basement, and closets) to repairing loose fence slats, to making bookcases, to building a doghouse.
11. Christmas: Putting up lights on house and tree; tree purchase, set-up, dismantling and disposal; retrieving boxes of ornaments from dusty attic or storage area.
12. “Male cleaning”: Car washing (and waxing); cleaning all painting tools for reuse (brushes, rollers, pans, guides); cleaning out the basement, attic, fireplace and gutters (the darkest, dirtiest, hottest and coldest parts of the house); cleaning filters of air conditioning and heating units; cleaning yard; bathing of dogs; and, if there’s a pool or Jacuzzi. . . . (See also: Barbecuing; Diaper Changing, Male Equivalents of; Guns and Weapons; Activities most likely to break. . . . )
13. Coaching-as-child care: Baseball (1-Ball, CAP Leagues, Little League), softball (e.g., Bobby Soxers), football (Pop Warner), roller hockey, field hockey, ice hockey, soccer; more informal coaching-as-child care via "playing together” in basketball, or throwing, catching, and hitting a ball; instructions in individualized sports such as tennis; instructions in self- defense (aikido, boxing, wrestling).
14. Computer buying: Researching best hardware and software; comparing prices, new vs. used markets, etc.
15. Confrontations—with neighbors or strangers: “Go tell the neighbors their dogs barking too loud.” Or, you’ve just gotten into a car accident with a stranger; who approaches the other driver when everyone is emotionally off center?
16. Dead animal disposal: DAD quickly comes to mean Dead Animal Disposer when the gerbil dies, the rat’s been trapped, when the mouse has been lead into temptation, or when the dog’s been run over and the street has blood all over. What’s worse for some dads, though, is having to kill the almost-dead animal—when DAD means Dying Animal Disposer.
17. Decks: Building, sanding, staining, sealing.
18. Diaper changing, male equivalents of: Plunging a backed-up toilet; wiping up a child's vomit when carsick on a vacation; cleaning up after dog doo from own dog and neighbors'.
19. Digging: Holes and ditches, removing of boulders, tree stumps, etc.
20. Dinner when company’s visiting: Meat carving, wine opening, cocktail making (careful guys, most women still do most everything else when company's visiting).
21. Disciplining of kids: "Wait till Daddy comes home."
22. Dragon-killing—modern version: Swatting flies, stepping on roaches, squishing spiders—all without a sword (or, for pacifist performers, removing the spider without hurting it!).
23. Driving: To and from functions that both sexes go to together, especially when conditions are hazardous (e.g., when caught in rush hour in a strange city; when caught in snow on an icy mountain road; when caught in heavy rain, wind, and fog at night, or when in a foreign country), or when both are exhausted or have had a bit too much to drink; on long trips, especially late at night while the family sleeps; or on a motorcycle (have you ever seen a woman on a motorcycle with a man hanging on?). The automobile and motorcycle are the modern-day white horse. Like the man on the white horse, his role involves more accidents; the man on the white horse, though, never had to worry about a DU I citation!
24. Emergency prevention: In home (e.g., noticing and repairing frayed wires, plugs, sockets, smoke detectors); in car (putting chains on tires; being certain all the cars' fluids [oil, transmission, anti-freeze] are being changed on schedule, tool kit and flares are adequate, flashlight has batteries, etc.); via nature (battening down windows, putting sand bags in the trunk before a blizzard, making sure trees aren't creating a hazard to house or people should a storm arise), on the town (making sure there’s cash in the wallet and gas in the car).
25. When emergencies arise despite prevention: Sandbagging; changing a tire on a cold night in the rain on a dangerous part of the road in the bad part of town; taking the walk for five gallons of gas when the car runs out; or risking putting the battery cable on the wrong side of the battery.
26. Post-emergencies: Roof repair (shingles, holes, leaks, etc.); removal of fallen trees and branches; rebuilding and repairing after damage; or arranging for, supervising and helping with rebuilding and repair.
27. Fences: Building fences from stone or wood, or installing a wire fence.
28. Fire building, wood chopping and carting wood indoors while not getting the carpet dirty.
29. Garbage: Real men take out the garbage because, you see, it's in their genes to know how to use the garbage can cover as a shield should anything happen in that journey from the castle to the street. If he takes out the recycled items and the garden waste, it’s just because he wants to protect his turf of being the garbage man (excuse me, waste management engineer).
30. Gas/electric failures: Resetting clocks and circuit switches; relighting pilot lights; troubleshooting.
31. Gift-giving as a contribution to maintaining the romance: We often say men aren’t romantic, but we forget that it is men who are more likely to give the flowers she likes; the diamonds with the right 4 Cs (carat size, clarity, cut and color [then he worries about the 5th C—cost]); the earrings with the hypoallergenic studs; the perfume with the scent she prefers; the right-size ring for the correct finger with the right stone and her preferred cut; or to choose a restaurant that fits her definition of romantic, arranging the occasion, taking her there, and paying. Many a man has never had even one of these things done for him by even one woman one time (just as some women have never had a man do their laundry, cook a meal, or even make a cup of tea).
32. Guns and weapon: Purchase, cleaning, usage, and safety for protecting family from thieves in city and from animals in rural areas.
33. Hanging: Of heavy pictures, wall hangings, clocks, phones (especially when molly bolts, toggle bolts, or drywall or plastic anchors are necessary)
34. Installation/hook-up: Of washer, dryer, computer, TV, cables, and antennas.
35. Life insurance: Purchasing and choice of carrier.
36. Risky investment management (stocks, joint ventures, rental property): The investments that inspire blame when they fail and induce stress even when they succeed.
37. Opening: Jars, doors, big boxes, paint cans, windows that are stuck or frozen.
38. Option generating: In many couples, the man generates the options, the woman generates the rejections. For example, he asks, “Where would you like to go for dinner?” She answers, “Anywhere.” “Chinese?” he offers. “We just had that,” she reminds. “Italian?” “loo heavy.” “How about that new place—what's its name?” he tries. “I hear that's expensive.” When it comes to restaurants and to movies, the man often generates the options and the woman often selects even immediately after she's said, “It makes no difference.” Option-generating often involves having one's ideas rejected, which can be emotionally taxing.
39. Painting: Inside and outside of the home, and the laying down of masking tape, sheets, and other painting preparation (See also: Male cleaning and Activities most likely to break an arm . . . ).
40. Patio and sidewalk making: And sealing over cracks, requiring cement mixing, building of frame, making it level, and living with every mistake because it's “laid on concrete.”
41. Planting: New trees, bushes, larger plants.
42. Plastering, spackling, grouting, caulking, and mortaring: And creating the plaster, spackle, grout and mortar mixtures.
43. Poisons, exposure to: Use of insecticides to spray for ants and roaches; or to spray trees, flowers, garden vegies.
44. Programming: The VCR (“Honey, before we leave, I can't miss the special on male housework; would you program the VCR?”), or the CD player, the telephone speed dial.
45. Pumping gas, paying for gas, changing oil: When there's both a man and woman in the car, I notice men pump the gas about 80 percent of the time in Northeast 8c West Coast urban areas and university towns, and almost 100 percent of the time anywhere else.
46. Reading the business and financial pages: To get a feel for business trends that may affect career decisions and information related to investment decisions (which may just look like him “goofing off reading the paper” but is the equivalent of a woman reading recipes in Better Homes & Gardens or Family Circle [still the best selling magazines to women]). On the other hand, guys, the sports pages don't count!
47. Remodeling: Taking down walls, putting in windows, finishing garage or basement, and, for better men than I, building entire new rooms.
48. Repairs: Toilets, faucets, plumbing, electrical, window screens, sliding glass and screen doors, problems with cabinets, doors, etc.
49. Sharpening: Knives, mower blades, pruning shears.
50. Shopping for: Paint, hardware, lumber, spackle, lawnmower, tools, much of the "bulk” shopping (Office Depot, Home Depot, Price Club, CostCo, etc.) (See Also: Computer buying; Car buying; Stereo aTid video buying; and Life insurance, for additional "Male Shopping” categories)
51. Stereo and video buying: Hooking up, troubleshooting, repair arranging, and supervising.
52. Toy and bike care: Oiling, painting, and fixing kids' bikes, swing sets, jungle gyms, merry-go-rounds, and other outdoor play equipment.
53. Weather guard: Guarding a woman against exposure to rain, sleet, and snow by forfeiting his jacket to a woman who is cold even when he is also cold; walking between a woman and a street in which cars and trucks might splash water or slush onto their clothes; scraping ice and snow off a car windshield on a freezing morning; dropping the family off at a restaurant or movie when it's pouring, then parking and walking to the restaurant or theater in the rain (especially if no one has an umbrella); warming up the car before the family gets in it; bringing in the newspaper on a rainy morning; salting the driveway, sidewalk, and stairs when the rain has frozen over, so that if anyone falls, he does .‘(See Also: "Activities most likely to trigger heart attacks” and "Emergency” categories).
54. Yard work: Lawn mowing, fertilizing, weeding, clipping, leaf raking, tree trimming, etc.
So if men do all this, why don't we know about it? In part because instead of complaining, men offer to carry the luggage, barbecue, build the shelves, or shop for the stereo. And in part because we perform our roles unconsciously, as with our bodyguard role; it's hard to complain about that of which we're unconscious. Complaining is the shadow side of consciousness. But men were secretly hoping for the lighter side: appreciation and love . . . but someone took the appreciation and love out to the garbage.
Hopefully this list destroys some myths that create anger toward men, and creates instead some of the following understandings.

1997 Central Texas tornado outbreak Tornado outbreak in Texas
A deadly tornado outbreak occurred in Central Texas during the afternoon and evening of May 27, 1997, in conjunction with a southwestward-moving cluster of supercell thunderstorms. These storms produced 20 tornadoes, mainly along the Interstate 35 corridor from northeast of Waco to north of San Antonio. The strongest tornado was an F5 tornado that leveled parts of Jarrell, killing 27 people and injuring 12 others. Overall, 30 people were killed and 33 others were hospitalized by the severe weather.
Quick Facts Type, Duration ... Although the atmospheric conditions enabling the event were forecast to be conducive for strong winds and large hail, forecasters did not initially anticipate as much of a risk of strong tornadoes due to the lack of substantial wind shear over the region. Instead, the coalescence of several weather features—including a cold front, a dry line, and a gravity wave—provided locally favorable conditions for rotating thunderstorms and the formation of tornadoes. This peculiar evolution led to the unusual southwestward motion of the storms and the tornadoes they produced.
A tornado watch was first issued at 12:54 p.m. on May 27 for portions of East Texas and western Louisiana; the first tornado touched down at 1:21 p.m. in McLennan County while the final tornado lifted at 8:23 p.m. later that day in Frio County. The 20 tornadoes collectively inflicted at least $126.6 million in damage. The F5 Jarrell tornado was the outbreak's most powerful and deadliest tornado. It destroyed most of the 38-home Double Creek Estates subdivision west of Jarrell where the most extreme damage occurred. Residences were completely dismantled, swept away, and reduced to a concrete slab, while trees in the area were completely shredded and debarked. Fields were scoured to a depth of 18 in (460 mm) and asphalt was torn from roads. Due to the tornado's intensity, the debris was often small in size and beyond recognition. There were four other tornadoes rated F3 or higher. One F3 tornado moved across Cedar Park, damaging parts of the business district and numerous homes in nearby neighborhoods. An F4 tornado struck areas near Lake Travis and caused one fatality. In addition to the tornadoes, the storms also produced large hail and strong straight-line winds; Kelly Air Force Base in San Antonio recorded a 122 mph (196 km/h) wind gust.
Meteorological synopsis Atmospheric setup A surface weather analysis of Texas at 2:00 p.m. on May 27 showing the cold front (solid line with pennants), dry line (dashed line with semicircles), gravity wave (solid line), and low-pressure area (L symbol). The alignment of these features produced the local environmental conditions enabling the tornado outbreak. The severity of the 1997 Central Texas tornado outbreak was predicated on an unusual spatial and temporal alignment of weather features at highly localized scales. The broader environment was not particularly anomalous for the late springtime over Central and East Texas. Unlike conventional tornado outbreaks in Texas, the 1997 outbreak was not associated with a strong trough of low pressure and strong density gradients in the lower troposphere. Instead, the most prominent weather system over the central U.S. at the time was a distant upper-level low centered over Nebraska imparting little influence on atmospheric conditions over Texas.
Consequently, winds in the mid-levels of the troposphere over Texas on May 27 were weak and westerly, ranging from 30 kn (35 mph; 56 km/h) over North Texas to below 15 kn (17 mph; 28 km/h) over Central and South Texas. Winds closer to the surface were also quiescent; the average storm-relative winds within the lowest 6 km (3.7 mi) of the atmosphere as measured in Del Rio, Texas, prior to the onset of storm development was only 6 kn (6.9 mph; 11 km/h). Further aloft at the level of the jet stream, there were two nearby wind speed maxima over northern Mexico and the central Mississippi Valley; this led to strong divergence of air over Texas. Wind shear was negligible within the lowest 6 km (3.7 mi) of the atmosphere contrary to typical tornado outbreaks.
Despite generally meager winds, the atmosphere was nonetheless thermally energetic. The combination of several days of onshore wind flow from the Gulf of Mexico and the persistence of a capping inversion aloft led to an accumulation of moist air over the state. Dew points soon exceeded 70 °F (21 °C) within the boundary layer, representing ample moisture in the lower levels of the troposphere. Radiosondes launched from Corpus Christi and Fort Worth on the morning of May 27 detected the presence of a robust "elevated mixed layer" of air aloft characterized by steep lapse rates—the change of temperature with height—near the dry adiabatic lapse rate. This contributed to high convective available potential energy (CAPE) exceeding 5,500 J/kg across most of Central and East Texas, denoting a highly unstable atmosphere. In some cases CAPE was as high as 6,500 J/kg. The lack of fronts moving across Texas in the 36 hours before the tornado outbreak allowed this instability to remain and spread across much of the state.
Although these conditions were regionally conducive to the development of thunderstorms capable of producing large hail and strong winds, the potential for supercell and tornado development was not initially clear given the lack of wind shear.: 4–5 Other metrics and indices used to diagnose tornado potential, such as the Energy Helicity Index, storm-relative helicity, supercell composite parameter, and the significant tornado parameter, were also lower than historically observed environments featuring tornadoes. For instance, the amount of storm-relative helicity within the lowest 3 km (1.9 mi) of the atmosphere—a common measure quantifying the amount of wind shear—was measured as 70 m2/s2 at Corpus Christi and reached 117 m2/s2 according to data from the Rapid Update Cycle computer model; values below 300 m2/s2 are correlated with weak tornadoes. A study published in Monthly Weather Review in 2007 described the environment as being "marginally favorable for supercells and unfavorable for significant, supercellular tornadoes."
Instead, the factors that enabled the eventual tornado outbreak may have transpired at a mesoscale involving several features becoming juxtaposed over Texas. The dry line delineating the boundary between the moist maritime airmass over East Texas and the drier continental airmass farther west remained nearly stationary in the region through the morning of May 27. On the preceding evening, a mesoscale convective system developing along this dry line over eastern Oklahoma and Arkansas generated a well-defined gravity wave that traveled southwest across East Texas on the morning of May 27. Its progression was evidenced on satellite imagery as an advancing band of mid-level cumuli. A weak low-pressure area also developed along the dry line near Dallas and tracked southwest along the boundary. In the two days before May 27, a cold front associated with the upper-level low over Nebraska had swept slowly southeast across the central U.S. Prior to dawn on May 27, the front progressed across West Texas; by 7:00 a.m. on May 27, the front spanned from southeastern Oklahoma through the northwestern portion of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex southwestwards to near the Big Bend of Texas. This placed the cold front parallel and just to the west of the dry line along a northeast to southwest orientation. A swath of clear skies emerged between the two boundaries, maximizing surface heating during the daytime and contributing to the weak low-pressure area's southwestward movement through Central Texas.
Development of storms Animation of storms developing over Texas on May 27. The animation alternates between progressing forwards and backwards in time. At around 12:30 p.m., the gravity wave, cold front, dry line, and low-pressure area overlapped near Waco, Texas, with the faster cold front overtaking and merging with the nearly stationary dry line. The cold front and dry line were brought together in a northeast to southwest fashion resembling a zipper. Thunderstorms formed near Waco in tandem with this juxtaposition of features and within a local maximum of surface heating and convergence of moist air. While some storms had spawned along the cold front, the gravity wave's passage in the early afternoon hours coincided with a rapid intensification of the first thunderstorms. The arrival of the gravity wave and its perpendicular alignment relative to the orientation of the cold front and dry line may have enhanced wind shear locally despite weak wind shear at a broader, synoptic scale. This allowed the thunderstorms to rotate and become supercells.
However, the degree to which the wave contributed to the formation of supercells and eventually tornadoes remains a subject of disagreement among meteorologists. The development of new discrete supercells followed the advancing intersection of the cold front and dry line and the gravity wave as they continued southwest, though each individual storm was nearly stationary. Due to the westerly winds in the mid-levels of the troposphere, the outflow from each developing storm was directed east, allowing each new thunderstorm to develop and rotate without interference from the initial storms. The direction of the storms' expansion towards the southwest deviated over 100 degrees away from these westerly winds, representing an extreme and highly unusual motion. The southwestward generation of storms brought them towards increasingly unstable air with higher CAPE, allowing the storms to acquire strong inflow and the requisite rotation to produce tornadoes.
There were at least three families of thunderstorms that developed as part of the initial southwestward-moving complex of storms, composed of at least 16 distinct supercells; six of the cells formed along the cold front, five formed along the dry line, and five formed along the gust front imparted by previous storms. The gust fronts pushed outwards by the downdrafts of the thunderstorms served as foci for tornadogenesis; boundaries like gust fronts can provide low-level vorticity and rising air necessary for the formation of tornadoes. Some of the day's tornadoes were spun up by the gust front itself while others spawned from thunderstorms with preexisting mesocyclones aloft enhanced by the gust front underneath.
The day's first thunderstorm near Waco in McLennan County strengthened quickly in response to the highly unstable atmosphere. A severe thunderstorm warning—the first of the day—was issued for the county at 12:50 p.m. Weather radars showed increasing rotation within the storm, prompting the issuance of a tornado warning at 1:21 p.m. This storm produced the outbreak's first tornado 5 mi (8.0 km) of southwest of Hewitt near Lorena. The same storm produced a second brief tornado near Bruceville followed by a third, intense F3 tornado in southwestern McLennan County that lasted for 20 minutes. A new thunderstorm developed along the flanking line associated with the first storm. This second storm spawned several tornadoes as it expanded towards the southwest, including an F3 tornado near Lake Belton beginning at 2:25 p.m. and the F5 Jarrell tornado beginning at 3:25 p.m. The NEXRAD radar in Granger used to monitor this storm suffered a power failure and went out of commission at 3:38 p.m. A control switch left in an improper position on a prior maintenance visit prevented its emergency power supply from activating. Thunderstorms developing to the southwest later in the afternoon and evening produced additional tornadoes, including the F3 tornado that struck Cedar Park and the F4 tornado that struck Lakeway. The Lakeway tornado was the first instance of an F4 tornado striking Travis County on record. The final tornado of the day touched down in Frio County and lifted at 7:23 p.m.: 2 : 214
Farther south away from the southwestward-moving storm cluster, the cold front and dry line curved west, making them parallel to the advancing gravity wave; this triggered the development of numerous and intense storms between Austin and the Big Bend after 3:00 p.m. when the gravity wave intersected the front. The parallel orientations of the wave and the other boundaries precluded these storms' rotation. They tracked east and eventually merged with the southwestward-propagating complex of tornadic storms along the Pedernales River. This coalescence produced a south- and southeastward-moving squall line and ended the strong tornado activity. Nonetheless, strong and damaging winds were produced by the squall line for several hours. Kelly Air Force Base in San Antonio documented a wind gust of 106 kn (122 mph; 196 km/h), marking a record high wind velocity for the site.
Warnings and preparedness The Storm Prediction Center (SPC) forecasted a moderate risk for severe thunderstorms over parts of East Texas in its severe weather outlook issued at 1:03 a.m. on May 27. The moderate risk region included Waco, the Killeen–Temple–Fort Hood metropolitan area, and extended east towards Shreveport, Louisiana, and Fort Polk, Louisiana. Austin was located at the boundary between the moderate risk region and the slight risk region that encompassed most of East and South Texas, including the Hill Country. The SPC predicted that the gravity wave would be a focal point for storms capable of producing large hail and damaging winds given the unstable atmosphere. A subsequent outlook issued by the SPC at 10:16 a.m. continued to indicate a moderate risk for severe weather and mentioned the possibility of isolated and brief tornadoes. A tornado watch was later issued by the SPC at 12:54 p.m. for parts of eastern Texas and western Louisiana, citing the unstable airmass in place over the region. The Dallas/Fort Worth and Austin/San Antonio National Weather Service forecast offices also issued bulletins on the morning of May 27 noting the potential for severe weather. However, these early outlooks focused more on the threat of wind and hail rather than tornadoes due to the low wind shear present over the region.
The Dallas/Fort Worth National Weather Service forecast office ultimately issued 10 tornado warnings and 5 severe thunderstorm warnings between 1 and 5 p.m. on May 27. The Austin/San Antonio office issued 8 tornado warnings, 24 severe thunderstorm warnings, and 10 flash flood warnings during the afternoon and evening of May 27, with 80 percent of their issued products occurring after 5 p.m. in connection with the widespread storms that developed later in the day separate from the initial tornadic storms. In one case, a media outlet's decision to manually activate the Emergency Alert System rather than allow weather warnings to automatically trigger it resulted in a 25–30 minute delay in the dissemination of a warning. Interviews conducted by a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration service assessment team found that many watched the approach of tornadoes prior to taking shelter due to their slow movement and high visibility. In the case of the F5 Jarrell tornado, some fled while others took shelter. Due to the strength of the tornado, some who stayed behind were killed despite taking appropriate safety measures.
Confirmed tornadoes More information FU, F0 ... More information F#, Location ... Jarrell, Texas Quick Facts F5 tornado, Duration ... Parts of Jarrell, Texas, were struck by an extremely powerful F5 tornado on the afternoon of May 27. The tornado destroyed approximately 10 percent of the homes in Jarrell;: A1 at the time, the city had a population of about 450 people and had been previously struck by tornadoes in 1987 and 1989.: A1 : A10 Hardest-hit was the Double Creek Estates subdivision west of downtown Jarrell.: 6 : A19 The 1997 Jarrell tornado was the first and only known occurrence of an F5 tornado in Williamson County. It was also the deadliest tornado in Texas since the 1987 Saragosa tornado. The thunderstorm that spawned the Jarrell tornado began west of Temple along the flanking line of another thunderstorm earlier in the afternoon of May 27. The storm produced several tornadoes in Bell County, including the F3 tornado that impacted communities along Lake Belton. Weather radar observed a strengthening mesocyclone within the thunderstorm, with the speed of rotation rising above 40 kn (46 mph; 74 km/h). As the storm moved into Williamson County, it produced two short-lived F2 tornadoes north of Jarrell at 3:25 p.m. and 3:35 p.m.; the latter of the two was a multiple-vortex tornado and lifted at 3:39 p.m.: 5 The Austin/San Antonio National Weather Service forecast office issued a tornado warning for Williamson County at 3:30 p.m. in response to the storm's approach; the warning was put into effect for one hour. This was the first tornado warning of the day issued for the office's warning area and warned that "the city of Jarrell is in the path of this storm." Local warning sirens went off about 10–12 minutes before the tornado struck.
The precise start of the Jarrell tornado was difficult to pinpoint. The most prominent and destructive part of the tornado's evolution was preceded by the apparition of short-lived, small, and rope-like funnel clouds. These may have been separate tornadoes or simply an earlier part of the Jarrell tornado's evolution.: C3 An aerial survey conducted by the Birmingham, Alabama, office of the National Weather Service included the damage caused by the earlier F2 tornadoes—mostly to trees and roads—as part of the overall Jarrell tornado path.: C3 Some reports also include the F1 tornado near Prairie Dell as an earlier continuation of the Jarrell tornado. The final, unambiguous apparition of the Jarrell tornado began as a narrow and rope-shaped funnel when it touched down at 3:40 p.m. just within the Williamson County line 3 miles (4.8 km) north of Jarrell.: 6 Like the two F3 tornadoes earlier in the day, it developed along the gust front produced by its parent thunderstorm. This mechanism is typical of tornadogenesis not associated with supercell thunderstorms. Traffic along Interstate 35 came to a stop as the tornado descended nearby.: A1 The Texas Highway Patrol also stopped traffic on both sides of the interstate under the expectation that the tornado would cross the highway; it ultimately moved parallel to Interstate 35. Tracking south-southwest, the tornado quickly intensified and grew to a 1⁄2 mile (0.80 km) in width, changing from its initial thin and white appearance to a blue and black color.: 6 : A1 F5 tornado damage was identified early in the tornado's path.: C3 Its intense winds scoured the ground and stripped pavement from roads.: 3 The tornado tore 525 feet (160 m) of asphalt as it crossed County Roads 308, 305, and 307;: 6 the thickness of the asphalt pavement was roughly 0.8 inches (20 mm). A culvert plant at the corner of Country Roads 305 and 307 collapsed. Nearby, a similar plant and a mobile home sustained some damage, with the latter struck by a 2×4 piece of lumber. The occupants of a mobile home 500 feet (150 m) north-northwest of the culvert plant fled to a frame house that the tornado later struck; the evacuees were killed while the mobile home sustained only minor damage.: A21 Some of the most extreme damage at this location was inflicted to a small metal-framed recycling plant that was obliterated, with little left of the structure besides a few twisted structural beams.
The Double Creek Estates subdivision was pulverized by the tornado, with many homes swept off their foundations and disintegrated. This photograph shows one remaining foundation with plumbing pulled out of the concrete. The tornado then slowly entered the Double Creek Estates subdivision where it exacted its most catastrophic impacts. Concurrently, the tornado expanded further to its maximum width of 3⁄4 mile (1.2 km).: 6 Eyewitnesses indicated that the tornado's movement slowed to around 5–10 mph (8.0–16.1 km/h) as it entered the neighborhood; this may have contributed to the resulting extreme destruction.: 7 The tornado destroyed the first home it encountered at the northwestern corner of the subdivision; a clock recovered from the remaining debris was stopped at 3:48 p.m., presumably marking the time the tornado entered the community.: 6 Much of the neighborhood was completely swept away with little debris remaining, with what was left being reducing to small and unrecognizable fragments that were dispersed over a wide area. The lack of large items that were recovered, and the granularity of the debris was indicative of the sheer strength of the tornado.: 7 Due to the tornado's slow movement, homes near the center of its path experienced tornadic winds for approximately three minutes. The mostly wooden-framed residences, some well-built and anchored, were completely obliterated and swept away, leaving behind concrete slab foundations swept clean of all debris.: 6 In some cases, parts of outbuilding and house foundations themselves in the subdivision were scoured away, and several were found missing all of their sill plates that connected the wood-frame homes to the foundations. Pieces of debris were found deposited in fields miles away from the subdivision, and extreme ground scouring occurred, reducing grassy fields into wide expanses of mud in the most severely affected areas.: 6 : A10 In some cases the ground was scoured out to a depth of 18 inches (46 cm). Vehicles in the neighborhood were tossed and mangled beyond recognition; at least six were found flattened in open areas and coated with mud and grass.: 7 : 5 Some were thrown as far as a 1⁄2 mile (0.80 km) away, and others were torn into multiple pieces of unrecognizable metal. Trees in the neighborhood were completely denuded and stripped entirely clean of all bark as well, including one that was found with an electrical cord impaled through the trunk.: 7 : 5
All 27 fatalities associated with the Jarrell tornado occurred at Double Creek Estates,: 7 which at the time consisted of 131 residents living in 38 single-family homes and several mobile homes.: A20 Entire families were killed at Double Creek, including all five members of the Igo Family, all four members of the Moehring family, and all three members of the Smith family. Bodily remains were later found at 30 locations, and the physical trauma inflicted to some of the tornado victims was so extreme, that first responders reportedly had difficulty distinguishing human remains from the remains of animals at the site. Most of the deaths were attributed in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report to multiple trauma, though one death was attributed to asphyxia. The high intensity of the Jarrell tornado left those in its path with little recourse; most homes in Double Creek Estates were built on cement slab foundations and few had a basement or any form of storm shelter;: 6 nineteen people sought refuge in a single storm cellar.: A21 Some residents who followed prescribed safety measures nonetheless perished. One survivor holed up in a bathtub and was flung several hundred feet from her house onto a road.: A21 The walls of some homes along the periphery of the tornado path remained intact, protecting some of those who survived the tornado. Others chose to evacuate ahead of the approaching tornado. Forty structures were obliterated in Double Creek Estates.: 7 Three businesses adjacent to Double Creek Estates were also destroyed. In total, the tornado dealt $10–20 million in damage to the neighborhood.: A20 Around 300 cattle grazing in a nearby pasture were killed and some were found 0.25 miles (0.40 km) away.: 7 : 5 Hundreds of cattle were also dismembered and a few cows were also skinned by the tornado.: A19
The tornado turned slightly towards the south-southwest after traversing Double Creek Estates.: 7 The damage in these outlying areas was somewhat scattershot; in one case, a mobile home suffered only minor damage while an adjacent house lost half of its roof. Metal buildings were unroofed along County Road 305 south of Jarrell. The road's guardrail was impaled by wooden planks thrown by the strong winds.: A12 The tornado then again crossed County Road 305 and entered a forest of cedar trees. Some of the damage to the trees suggested that the tornado may have been a multiple-vortex tornado, which was documented by storm chasers, receiving a nickname as a “dead man walking”. The path of damage left behind by the tornado ended abruptly shortly after entering this forested area, with the National Centers for Environmental Information indicating that it lifted at 3:53 p.m. after remaining on the ground for 13 minutes and 5.1 miles (8.2 km).: 7 Other government accounts of the tornado list a total path length of 7.6 miles (12.2 km) after incorporating the preceding tornadoes north of Jarrell and near Prairie Dell.: C3 Between May 29 and June 1, the Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorological Services and Supporting Research carried out aerial and ground surveys of the tornadic damage in Texas in coordination with the Texas Wing Civil Air Patrol. The Jarrell tornado damage was classified as F5 severity throughout most of the tornado's path.: C3 However, a critique of the Fujita scale published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology suggested that winds between 158–206 mph (254–332 km/h), corresponding to an F3 rating on the scale, were sufficient to explain the damage wrought by the Jarrell tornado. The critique noted that some of the homes at Double Creek Estates, although built within the preceding 15 years, exhibited structural weaknesses in their design such as the lack of anchor bolts and steel straps in their foundations. Approximately $40 million in damage was inflicted upon property with another $100,000 inflicted upon crops. Twelve people were injured by the storm in addition to the twenty-seven killed.
Due to the unusual southwestward motion of the thunderstorm that caused the tornado, the sequence of weather events experienced by those affected was in the opposite order of typical tornadic events: the tornado arrived first, followed by the hail, wind, and rain of the parent thunderstorm.: 7 Despite the violence of the tornado and the presence of its associated mesocyclone aloft, the thunderstorm did not exhibit a distinct hook echo on weather radar typically associated with such tornadoes. This may have also been caused by the unusual southwestward motion of the thunderstorm, resulting in the tornado's placement in an atypical position relative to the thunderstorm's motion.
Non-tornadic effects In addition to the tornadoes, there were 12 reports of large hail in Central Texas received by the National Weather Service during the late afternoon and evening. The largest hail—measuring nearly 4 in (100 mm) in diameter—was recorded in Cedar Park in conjunction with the F3 tornado that hit the city. Damaging hail was also reported in Georgetown beginning at 3:55 p.m. Severe thunderstorms also generated damaging straight-line winds across the Hill Country and South-Central Texas.: 3 Much of these winds were associated with the eventual, non-tornadic line of storms that resulted from the coalescence of the day's earlier storms. Wind gusts ranging between 58–71 mph (93–114 km/h) were recorded in Austin, with the peak 71 mph (114 km/h) wind gust occurring at Robert Mueller Municipal Airport at 4:20 p.m.: 3 There were also unofficial reports of winds reaching as high as 90 mph (140 km/h) to the west of Austin near Lake Travis. Kelly Air Force Base in San Antonio registered a gust of 122 mph (196 km/h) at 8:03 p.m. Gusts reached 61 mph (98 km/h) in Del Rio and overturned a plane at an airport near Seguin.: 3 The storms knocked out power to 60,000 electricity customers in Austin and as many as 21,000 electricity customers serviced by Texas Utilities.: A10 Telephone service for more than 3,000 residents in the Pedernales Valley was disrupted.: A11 The thunderstorms also produced heavy rain that triggered floods in Blanco, Gonzales, Karnes, and Travis counties.: 3 An official rainfall total of 1.44 in (37 mm) was documented in Austin, though 2.5 in (64 mm) of rain fell in nearby Round Rock. The rains caused Brushy Creek to flood beyond its banks as far east as Thorndale. One person drowned in floodwaters along Shoal Creek in Austin. Another person died in Cedar Park of cardiac arrest likely induced by storm-related stress. The Southwestern Insurance Information Service estimated that the totality of the storms' effects inflicted $25–40 million in insured losses; most insured claims originated from Cedar Park.
Aftermath The memorial at Jarrell Memorial Park naming the victims of the 1989 and 1997 Jarrell tornadoes Law enforcement officers from the Texas Department of Public Safety, four municipal police departments, and two county sheriff's offices aided search-and-rescue efforts in the aftermath of the Jarrell tornado.: A10 The Texas National Guard and other volunteers from around Central Texas joined in the search.: A21 The Scott & White Blood Center facilitated blood donations.: A21 A temporary shelter was established by the American Red Cross at Jarrell High School for those displaced by the tornado,: A10 providing food and accepting clothes donations.: A21 The agency's relief operations, covering residents of 211 homes, cost an estimated $250,000; community donations covered at least $200,000 of the expenses. The Jarrell Volunteer Fire Department organized a temporary morgue;: A10 the deceased were later brought to the Travis County Forensic Center for identification. Although a death toll of 30 people was initially reported, that figure was later revised to 27; the inflated count was attributed to the dispersion of remains that led some fatalities to be tallied twice.: A21 Carcasses of livestock were buried at Double Creek Estates.
Texas Governor George W. Bush declared Williamson County a disaster area; Bush visited Jarrell on May 28 and described the tornadic damage as the worst he had ever witnessed.: A21 U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison also visited Jarrell and Cedar Park. Bush later requested federal aid for Williamson and Bell counties with support from Hutchinson. The Federal Emergency Management Agency elected not to provide federal aid, citing the contributions from private and state sources.: A8 Instead, the Small Business Administration and U.S. Department of Agriculture made available loans for the rebuilding of homes, farms, and ranches. The U.S. Congress approved a relief bill allocating $5.4 billion for 35 states affected by natural disasters, including Texas. However, the bill also included other provisions that led President Bill Clinton to veto the bill. A drive-through donation line was established at Auditorium Shores in Austin.: A1 Local musicians organized and performed at a benefit concert at Austin Music Hall, attracting an audience of 2,800 and raising about $94,000. Businesses also donated to the relief efforts.: A7
First responders representing Cedar Park, Austin, Leander, Round Rock, and Williamson and Travis counties arrived in Cear Park shortly after the city was hit by a tornado. Texas A&M University supplied equipment for search-and-rescue operations in the aftermath of the Cedar Park tornado.: A10 These operations were the first test of the 186-member Texas Urban Search and Rescue Team, which was created following the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. Vouchers were distributed by the American Red Cross to storm victims in the Buttercup Creek subdivision for clothing, food, and other supplies. Texas State Troopers blocked areas of Buttercup Creek to prevent looting.: A10
A memorial was erected in downtown Jarrell bearing the names of the 27 people killed by the Jarrell tornado. The Jarrell Memorial Park was established near Double Creek Estates on the land of the former Igo family, who perished in the tornado. The park contains 27 trees planted in honor of the victims. In 2019, the memorial was relocated to the park along with the city's historical marker. The events and survivor accounts of the tornado were profiled in television documentaries such as the 1999 episode of HBO's America Undercover series titled "Fatal Twisters: A Season of Fury", the 1999 BBC television series titled Twister Week (also known as Tornado Diary in the United States) in an episode titled "Tornado Alley", the seventh episode of the Discovery Channel program Storm Warning, produced by GRB Entertainment, and the 2006 documentary Ultimate Disaster (also known as Mega Disaster) on National Geographic Channel.
See also icon Weather portal List of North American tornadoes and tornado outbreaks 1922 Austin twin tornadoes – also featured southwestward-tracking tornadoes that struck the Austin, Texas, area Tornado outbreak of April 6–9, 1998 – produced the official first F5 tornado after the Jarrell tornado 1953 Waco tornado – the deadliest tornado in Texas history Notes All times in Central Daylight Time (UTC-5:00) unless otherwise noted. The Jarrell tornado was rated as an F5 tornado on the Fujita scale, corresponding to peak gusts of 261–318 mph (420–512 km/h). These winds were estimated from the damage and not directly measured. All damage totals are in 1997 USD unless otherwise noted. The divergence of air at the upper-levels of the troposphere promotes upward motion and aids thunderstorm development. Wind shear—a change of wind velocities with height—is necessary to produce rotating thunderstorms, making it a key physical condition for the development of tornadoes. Environments with thunderstorms often exhibit CAPE exceeding 1,000 J/kg, with extreme cases exhibiting CAPE greater than 5,000 J/kg. All dates are based on Central Daylight Time (UTC-05:00); however, all times are in Coordinated Universal Time for consistency. These winds would correspond to an EF3–EF5 tornado on the modern Enhanced Fujita Scale. The critique noted that the winds corresponding to an F3 tornado in the Fujita scale would completely destroy most homes.

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New Balance U327WCD / Phantom
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Dunk High Panda mens
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Jordan 5 High Orewood
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New Balance 550 White & green
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NEW BALANCE 9060 (Driftwood/Stone Pink/Sea Salt)
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Air Force 1 Low retro waterproof
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New Balance U998GR
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NEW BALANCE 2002R "Family Portraits" Concrete
https://offthehook.ca/collections/footwear-new-arrivals/products/new-balance-2002r-concrete-m2002rln
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Jordan 1 High skyline
https://www.deadstock.ca/products/jordan-1-retro-high-og-craft-vivid-orange-black-iced-lilac
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Dunk High San Fran Chinatown Lunar New Year
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Dunk Low Satin UNLV womens
https://nrml.ca/products/womens-dunk-low-ess-snkr-unlv-satin?_pos=18&_fid=a633bcac5&_ss=c
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Jordan Hydro 6 slides
https://www.champssports.ca/en/product/jordan-hydro-6-mens/10276159.html
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Dunk Low Splash (glow in the dark)
https://www.cntrbndshop.com/collections/footweaproducts/nike-dunk-low-se-in-volt?variant=40093976657983
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Air Max Big Bubble
https://momentumshop.ca/collections/womens-sneakers/products/w-air-max-1-86-prm
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I had concrete repair done on horizontal and vertical cracks in my basement. To do this, they used waterproofing membrane. While it worked well, I’d like to make it a little more aesthetically pleasing.
Wondering what I can use to cover or even just blend in the membrane before repairing.
Has anyone done this?
TIA

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