Bad nasty for Texans and Okies lately. I hope all are OK.
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Bad nasty for Texans and Okies lately. I hope all are OK.
Looks real bad,read where one river went up 26 ft in one hour,god bless all in those areas.
Wtched on the news, pretty bad stuff. If it was somehow possible to reroute all that water to Cali.
It was certainly bad here in Houston. Lot's of folks lost a lot. I now know the meaning of a 'flash flood'. Got half the houses on my street in a matter of a few hours. (including mine! :()
Hope everyone recovers fast from the floodQuote:
Originally Posted by sharptonn
Sorry to hear that. Water damage is no fun.
Sorry to hear about your house, sharptonn. I hope you stay safe and healthy.
Chit, sorry man,keep us posted:(Quote:
Originally Posted by sharptonn
If I know Tom standing orders in the house are each person has 200 razors each assigned to them to save before anything else in case of evacuation. That said, hope all is getting better for you.
Saw that on the news today too. Hope you weren't too badly hit.
Bob
Hoping it isnt to bad for you Tom and your neighborhood.
Thanks, Guys! I will be OK. Spent the day hauling out carpet and padding, running the wet vac. Going with tile this time! Everything will get back to normal eventually.
I fared better than some, for certain!
Sorry for the tragedy. Prayers are sent.
Be well my friend! Get your immune shot series updated!
~Richard
My Thanks. This urban atmosphere has me weary. They buy a house, tear it down, and put 2 on it. Make a guy building a new business do a retention pond. Then a horse pasture becomes a silly Dr. Seuss town of stupid structures right 3 feet from one another. THEN, they are all dismayed at the flooding. Then, the Mayor. Another discussion for another time. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by outback
Then, there are those in rural settings effected more severe. Go figure....
I just hope all are OK!
Sorry to hear that Tom, but glad everyone in your house came through it uninjured. I was thinking about you when I started the thread on Texas & Oklahoma. We live in a 50 year flood plain here and have had one in 11 years, which is enough!
Take care as you work on the place.
Sometimes, I fear the flood plain map is exaggerated! :rofl2: Second or third one in 15 years. Another a few years back from that. THEN, there are the occasional hurricanes, even tornadoes. I suppose each locale has it's risk! We don't have earthquakes!
Very sorry to hear, trust that everyone is safe.Quote:
Originally Posted by sharptonn
Unfortunately we have far too many in Texas who have lost more than "things" in the past week - all are in our thoughts and prayers.
Amen to that.Quote:
Originally Posted by MJC
Pull the family together as a team,,,don't take all actions/responses upon your shoulders alone,,,delegate them to family members,,, it takes just enough pressure off you to keep you focused,,, it strengthens the family as a whole,,, increasing survival odds.
When it clears,,, reach out to us if needed.
Yeah Tom, "Liked" it in agreement. Lots of the Okie vids are my small hometown. We've had 20+ inches, 8.56" in less than 8 hours Sunday. Tornadoes and warnings, (?) It's a mess!!Quote:
Originally Posted by sharptonn
Sorry for the damage to your home!! At least mine, so far is outside! Hope it stays that way!!
Regards,
Howard :)
Good to hear you are okay, SirStropalot.
I hope all in the flooded areas are ok. We've had a fair bit of flooding here in Saskatchewan the last few years. I was in South Carolina last year ( July) visiting my Mom and sister. We got a text telling us about the flooding that took place near where I live. Thankfully we didn't any damage. Some people weren't so lucky. A few years earlier..... We got a nasty storm and it flooded many of city streets and a lot of houses. Quite a few house had their basements filled up! Took many years to recover from that one. When Mother Nature is PMsing.... She is pretty mean!
Thought and prayers with those affected with the flooding and the havocs of the nasty storms.
My son is there right now and I can't get a hold of him. Probably holed up in a bar somewhere knowing him....... I hope.
"I'm so darn glad He let me try it again,
'Cause my last time on earth I lived a whole world of sin.
I'm so glad that I know more than I knew then.
Gonna keep on tryin' till I reach the highest ground."
Sorry to hear this Tom. That sucks! We had a flood here in 2012 that got our house too. Luckily our sewer didn't back up and me and the family were all over it removing carpet and squeegee the water back in the sump pump once it cleared the top. Setting up fans and moving everything to a higher spot. As hiralou said it can bring a family together.Quote:
Originally Posted by sharptonn
I'm glad that you are safe and you still have a home. Sorry this had to happen to you. On the bright side you will get to update some parts of your home. Hold those insurance companies accountable. Hopefully FEMA is able to be of some assistance.
Very sorry Tom
My prayers are with you
Whoa, just heard how far above sea level Houston is and the layout of the 'bayous.' Texans say it a little different than the folks in Louisiana do......take care Tom.
MickR had a similar experience recently in brissie, though it's persisting down in WA we have come out of it fine except for a leak or two in the roof, I guess that's an advantage of living half way up a hill.
I hope you get it all sorted out relatively painlessly Tom.
Tom I hope everything is ok
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!) :rofl2:
Thanks, Guys. Means a great deal! :bow
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Geezer
Then, it holds it like a swimming pool. Filled that 30 gallon wet vac 36 times! :rofl2: 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! :roflmao 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.
Thanks, Dave. I plan on doing just that. I might pull the seats and carpet as well. Gonna have to wait, though.Quote:
Originally Posted by rolodave
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!
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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:thinking:
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
