I survived the flood of '07...

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... and so did my wife, cats, and all my planes. There are many people in much worse shape here than I. :(

[Usta Bee]

May I recommend a sea/float plane ?.



http://youtube.com/watch?v=AZVL4P8VP_g


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pucmWr55cgw&mode=related&search=

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Oops. Guess I wasn't very clear on that first picture. The basement hadn't gotten more than 2 or 3 inches until this flood. It filled pretty much completely up. Unfortunately, the way the tiny house was laid out, this is where the living room was. This was the highest the river rose in nearly 100 years. It was about 1 1/2 feet less than a flood that occured in 1913.

This town still hasn't recovered very much yet. Many businesses are still closed, and many may never re-open. Our little main street looks like a war zone. :(

[Yellow Baron]

theres areas around binghamton Ny that you can still asee where the water was and the mud

[Usta Bee]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Zyc1315KawQ

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I still haven't finished getting out all the waterlogged crap from that basement. I hope it will be done by tomorrow. There are a few inches of water left in there and it just dawned on me this morning what it reminded me of. Remember the death star trash compactor scene form the original (episode IV) Star Wars? I keep expecting to see a tentacle sliding through all the floating debris. ;)

[shane.barton]

Tweener.
Sorry to hear about the flooding. I'm glad that the Rapture and your other planes got out safely. I hope you, and your townsfolk, recover quickly!

[Mark Wood]

I see you have your head on straight, Tweener.
Keep laughing. It'll help keep you from getting p***ed.

mw

[BD Flyer]

This is not a joke Usta...

Sorry to here about the flood Tweener.

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I see you have your head on straight, Tweener.
Keep laughing. It'll help keep you from getting p***ed.

mwYeah. I've handled it much better than my wife has. She's run through the entire range of emotion and kind of settled in at "very cranky" for now. The problem is that two utility rooms were off the main living area, and all of our keepsakes were stored there - wedding pictures, my old comics and magazines, a box of original transformers, and three series of 1977-78 Topps Star Wars "bubble gum" trading cards. The only things that were salvageable were those that were made entirely of plastic or ceramic. Cloth was stained beyond restoration, paper disintigrated, and metal rusted.

I'm just looking at like the show "Clean House" with a flood instead of a yardsale. I wasn't using any of the stuff anyway, and now the load is lighter the next time we move. I had no insurance, and even if I did I probably wouldn't have paid extra for flood insurance, since the only flood on record that was worse was way back in 1913. There was only something like one old guy in town that remembered it.

[Usta Bee]

This is not a joke Usta...




.....more like the consequences of living in a natural flood plain..... :censored: happens.

Near me there is a river that floods it's banks every 10 years or so. Everytime it does the people living near the river get flooded out, and they complain why doesn't the Corps Of Engineers dredge the river so this wouldn't keep happening. My view is, if you KNOW the river floods and yet you choose to live in the flood plain anyway you should be thinking about moving instead of looking for someone to change the natural course of things.

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.....more like the consequences of living in a natural flood plain..... :censored: happens.

Near me there is a river that floods it's banks every 10 years or so. Everytime it does the people living near the river get flooded out, and they complain why doesn't the Corps Of Engineers dredge the river so this wouldn't keep happening. My view is, if you KNOW the river floods and yet you choose to live in the flood plain anyway you should be thinking about moving instead of looking for someone to change the natural course of things.Usta, this is a different situation. This river does have a natural floodplain, and it floods regularly. The areas that flooded on this occasion were areas that had not flooded for 94 years. The river valley in question was subject to over 8" of rain in a 24 hour period, and it was highly localized - affecting only the cities of Findlay and Ottawa, OH to any great degree. There is also something changing in either the weather pattern or the run off to/drainage from this area of the river in the last 10-20 years. Before 1981 there were no floods affecting anything but the barren natural floodplain during my lifetime. Since then there have been numerous high water events, and they seem to be getting worse. Check out the link to a page of historical crests below and you'll see that other than 1913 and 1959, these have all happened since '81. People that built houses (the one I lived in included) since '59 probably were unaware of the highest historical crests along the river. The house I was in never had more than a few inches in the basement prior to this, and only then because the sump pump went out.

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ahps2/crests.php?wfo=iwx&gage=otto1

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Update:

Seems that a few people I talked to are blaming the area farmers for this. They are said to be dredging their drainage ditches and installing tile to expedite the run off from their fields in greater numbers in the past couple decades. The problem is that when it reaches the river so fast, it has nowhere to go. Maybe the state needs to get involved to make them see that one season of crops isn't as important as someone's home or business and demand that they allow retarded runoff. Sometimes changing the "natural course of things" is what causes the problem.