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Major floodiing

kolanuraven

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Start looking for gopher wood!!!!! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

We got 2" in 30 minutes in GA....but was much needed as we'd not had a drop in over a month!
 

ranchwife

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MSN has posted about major flooding in the mid-west!! Sure hope all in the way of the water are safe.....to bad we could not figure out somehow to divert some of this much needed water to those in the southwest who could REALLY use it!!! :? :? :?
 

Ranchy

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Hubby was talking to his brother, Kit, the other morning, and Kit told him that they'd gotten 4" of rain down by Alamogordo, NM in about an hour.......it was about to wash town away......there are some steep, steep mountains (the Sacramentos) right by town, and there was a lot of water rushing off them into Alamo.

Wouldn't mind having 4" in a week, or so, but in an hour? :shock: No way is it going to have time to soak in........:(

Hope ya don't get washed away in your flooding!!!!!!!!
 

kolanuraven

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A lot of the urban flooding is due to so much asphalt. The water can't soak in and it just flows in the drains and gains speed as it goes.

Our pastures here soaked up every itty bitty drop....I can't even find a puddle in the fields!!!!

The county has been hounding me to agree to give r/w and let them pave the county road next to my big fields. No way....they would turn every bit of the run off onto me. Those folks that drive 80 mph on a rock road can slow down as far as I'm concerned.
 

Econ101

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reader (the Second) said:
Whoops. Another night of flooding. My son and I are sopping wet from going out to clean the drain and try to deflect the rivers of water from the house. Got flooded in the utility room again despite sump pump and extensive underground drainage in yard -- the latter doesn't seem to do anything in fact.

My son is having fun taking various kitchen tools out to the brick porch to try to bail out the porch or to otherwise deflect the water.

This morning our commute faced -- tree down on our street, landslide on our Washington Beltway exit (Telegraph Ave), and flooding closing the GW Parkway by the Pentagon, one of the other main alternative routes to work. What fun.

But in our area despite major hundred year flooding, we don't have the river overflow that Maryland has had. Oh yes, planes and trains could not run and various national agencies were closed down.

The wife and kids are in your area right now, reader. They have said it is really pouring. Wife is from Bethesda but visiting friends a little west in MD.

Good luck with the floods.
 

cert

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My neice is working in the District right now. She said it is worse than she has ever seen here. Too much asphalt.

Reader, do the subway's flood? I imagine that would come near to crippling a place like DC.
 

nr

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We've had 5 1/4 inches of rain so far and it pours a couple times a day.
It looks like a tropical rain forest. No water in the basement, Reader, though we have in the past. A dreary job scooping up water. In the past I'd shove the water with a sponge towards a plastic dustpan to scoop it up and dump it quickly into a bucket which went faster than anything any other tool we tried. Since we put in a sump pump and bought a wet vac we haven't had any water in the basement and the pump has never had to run which we can't figure out considering all this rain the past couple days. :roll: I hope you dry out soon, REader.
 

nr

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reader (the Second) said:
cert said:
My neice is working in the District right now. She said it is worse than she has ever seen here. Too much asphalt.

Reader, do the subway's flood? I imagine that would come near to crippling a place like DC.

I know that the sewers backed up in DC, related to the subways somehow, and flooded the National Archives. IRS headquarters, Dept of Commerce and the Zoo were also flooded and closed. I think I heard that Archives was built over a river.

The subways and buses are running -- they may have had to shut down part of one line I'm not sure -- although the tracks of some of the train lines got washed away and I guess the runways were too flooded for planes to fly at one point.

My back neighbors did a huge addition and eroded and changed the water course and I have had major water since then. They're really nice and I happened to talk to them and they told me that the water is actually coming from THEIR uphill neighbor.

Well, Reader, Geo.Washington built Washington on swampland so that should explain part of the problem. Mother Nature is retaliating. What a mess to clean it up though not to mention the inconvenience of shutting down parts of our national capitol.

I hope you can make some headway with your neighborhood drainage situation. There must be some ordinances about deflecting water run-off...
 

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