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Thursday, June 21, 2007
If It's Florida, It Must Be Termites!
After having lived in Florida for the better part of 40 years, we have never had to deal with Termites...until today! Over the weekend, we had the house tented and fumigated with Vikane, a deadly gas that will kill anything living, even plants.
We had to prepare by bagging all our food, medicine and personal items, using special non-permeable plastic bags. We took this opportunity to throw out quite a bit of unused, old and out of date material. The house feels lighter, that's for sure!
No, it's not the Ringling Circus!!
Karl ignores the "Danger" sign. I had to pull back the pool cage screen to allow for the canvas.
We left on Friday morning, and got back in late Sunday afternoon. There was still some residual cynopicrin, which burns the eyes a bit (its similar to tear gas), but after opening the house up for a few hours (during which the temperature inside soared to 85 F...), all was returned to normal.
We hope this is the end of all things Termite!