Thread: It's floodin' down in Texas

I Talked to Wullie. He is fine as he lives up a hill! I never thought about FEMA. Oh well, time to redecorate. On the upside, RAD has been quelled, and I will finally clean the carpet in my little car (if it ever dries out!)

Thanks, Guys. Means a great deal!

Something to think about:
I had a car flooded to the door handles and things started going wrong a few months later. The car was professionally reupholstered and dried but.... Super high humidity and actual water raise heck with circuit boards and connections.

Check with your insurance company because results are not immediately apparent; wiring gets corroded and some things go wrong after a few months. In many states, it is now against the law to place a car on the market that has been flooded and repaired without a notation on the title.
My prayer is with you!
~Richard

Originally Posted by Geezer

Something to think about:
I had a car flooded to the door handles and things started going wrong a few months later. The car was professionally reupholstered and dried but.... Super high humidity and actual water raise heck with circuit boards and connections.

Check with your insurance company because results are not immediately apparent; wiring gets corroded and some things go wrong after a few months. In many states, it is now against the law to place a car on the market that has been flooded and repaired without a notation on the title.
My prayer is with you!
~Richard

Ha! At least it was my 'throw down' car, a 96 Saturn coupe with 200k on the clock. Liability insurance only. I checked the air intake, fired it up and shot water out of the exhaust across the street. Drove it to the shop with a wet ass and grabbing brakes/clutch, wet-vac'd it, drilled holes in the floor pans and stuck 4 box fans in there. Grabbed the vac and headed home with the truck. My living room was the garage in a bygone day, lower than the rest of the house. A concrete sill keeps the water out to a point as it seeps in.
Then, it holds it like a swimming pool. Filled that 30 gallon wet vac 36 times! Ripping and hauling out wet carpet and pad all day.


Going with tile and tile baseboards this time. A nice drain hole with a plug in an obscure place will be installed.
Next time, as the water outside recedes, I will pop the plug on the drain and grab a mop! Done!

I have a friend that deals in flooded cars.He claims that once they get flooded they are only good as parts cars.
He buys them,strips them and sells the parts,doors, windows and whatever he can salvage as parts only.

Tom

You may want to check the rearend and tranny. Had a car swamped in Hurricane Allen and both had water in the cases.

I do not want to even think about the work you will have to do. Prayers for you.

Originally Posted by rolodave

Tom

You may want to check the rearend and tranny. Had a car swamped in Hurricane Allen and both had water in the cases.

I do not want to even think about the work you will have to do. Prayers for you.

Thanks, Dave. I plan on doing just that. I might pull the seats and carpet as well. Gonna have to wait, though.
Too much to do. Meanwhile, doors open and fans running will have to suffice!

Gee. Now we have a dam about to go on a lake south of Dallas which was DRY a week ago!

Saw this earlier, if it is the same dam...

10:45 a.m.

Police say the threat of a dam southwest of Dallas breaking has passed.

Midlothian police Capt. John Spann said late Wednesday morning that water was still coming over the earthen dam at Padera Lake, near Midlothian, but that the volume had decreased. The area has experienced days of heavy rain.

Emergency personnel planned to shut down Highway 287 if the dam broke, because it could have flooded with a couple feet of water. About a dozen homes in the mostly rural area were threatened as well.

Midlothian is some 25 miles southwest of Dallas.

Two days here without rain! All local lakes within 100 mile radius are overflowing dams. Red river is a raging mess & shutting down highways. Our poor railroad has taken a beating too as well as BNSF. I'm thankful for a guaranteed 40 hours a week. SO far, our VFD hasn't been called out for any Search & Rescues...strange that folks are using their brains...just strange

Yep, crazy weather. We have gone from years of drought and dried lakes to the spillways over flowing. I have heard the tornado sirens more this month than I have all of my life.

Stay safe, Charelie