Rep. Greg Steube hospitalized after falling
from roof
Washington Examiner,
by
Brady Knox
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
1/18/2023 11:50:01 PM
Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) was hospitalized after falling from his roof while carrying out routine home maintenance.
The Florida representative fell 25 feet to the ground, Florida Politics reported. He was found by a Republican staffer in the neighborhood doing part-time delivery work.(snip)The Iraq War veteran was recently reelected to his third term in Congress, where he has garnered a reputation as a strong conservative.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
thefield 1/19/2023 12:08:02 AM (No. 1381943)
Any word on his condition?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DVC 1/19/2023 12:11:16 AM (No. 1381945)
Inconvenient Russians often fall out of windows. Has the FBI learned another trick from the KGB?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
HisHandmaiden 1/19/2023 1:19:53 AM (No. 1381958)
With many one-story homes here in America, many home-owners do some of their own maintenance using appropriate tools.
My MIT engineer-Dad was one of the best. Everything from repairing roofs, fences, roads, etc. with our John Deer tractors, to helping vet birth foals and calves.
TBIYTC
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Highlander 1/19/2023 6:45:50 AM (No. 1382041)
A fall of 25 feet can easily have killed him. He is most fortunate to survive. I fell eight feet from my kids’ tree house. No broken bone except a badly bruised ego. Believe me, it hurts big time.
May Mr Steube have a quick recovery.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
HPmatt 1/19/2023 6:53:07 AM (No. 1382044)
Prayers that he recovers and learns not to work on his roof after 35 y/o.
If he did land on his head, he can run for the Senate where he will fit right in for another 50 years.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
petrichor 1/19/2023 7:12:45 AM (No. 1382060)
A ladder slipped out from under me and I fell about eight feet, head first. I managed to land "right" but I still hurt for many days. The downside of housework in your 70's. Recovery time is a beetch!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Paintman 1/19/2023 8:51:38 AM (No. 1382137)
I'm a painting contractor in my mid fifties and still work all the jobs. Every time I go up a tall ladder or on a steep roof I'm reminded of what an old timer told me when I was starting out.
" At a certain age we don't bounce back and start to break."
Sure hope the Congressman is going to be OK.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
felixcat 1/19/2023 9:20:49 AM (No. 1382160)
Notice how Republican members of Congress (Sen Rand Paul and Rep Steube) do their own chores. Never read about a Dem member of Congress falling from a ladder while cleaning gutters or being attacked by neighbor while mowing their lawn.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
udanja99 1/19/2023 9:23:39 AM (No. 1382164)
I grew up in a one story house and we kids used to climb up on the roof and jump off. A roof that is 25 feet up is not a one story house.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
mc squared 1/19/2023 10:15:59 AM (No. 1382212)
I noticed that right away #8. He didn't tell a staffer to go up there.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 1/19/2023 11:24:41 AM (No. 1382320)
At some point in life, you're better off paying a professional to do certain jobs for you. Someone who walks on a roof every day is more skilled at it than someone who does it once every year or so. They're likely younger and fitter than the average white-collar professional. Let them do it, but make sure they're bonded and insured.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
DVC 1/19/2023 12:25:37 PM (No. 1382411)
Be careful on roofs. I hope the Congressman recovers fully, that fall could have easily killed him.
My cabin on Colorado needs a new roof, strong winds have broken a few off. I think that this summer we'll put on a metal roof over the top of it. I've asked a nephew, in his 20s, to come out and help. In my 70s, I'm a little less ready to tackle it myself. My wife is a lot less interested these days.
The old roof was put on by my wife and I, after I carried the bundles up the ladder, handing them off to my brother and his son to carry to the roof peak. They had to leave to head home at that point, but getting the shingles up on the roof peak was a heck of a head start.
But that was in the 90s, we were a whole lot younger then. And we wore safety harnesses and ropes tied to the roof peak so we couldn't hit the ground if we lost our footing. Even that many years ago, I wasn't going to risk a fall. The harnesses and ropes were inconvenient at times, but we always used them.
My wife used to run the roofing crews for the local Habitat for Humanity. Once I taught her how to lay shingles, it turned out she was the only person who volunteered for HforH who knew what to do, so she was put in charge of a bunch of ignorant, but hard working college kids. They did an acceptable job....but she wisely had them shingle the back side first, and the crooked lines there are less noticeable than if they had been on the street side. By the time they did the front, the work looked better, and all of it was rain proof.
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