The big Flood

[sb47]

Well, that there sucks..hmm..littering? maybe you could get the cops to charge them with littering, easy "fine" money for them. the word would get around and they would switch to a yard vacuum for cleanup instead of blowers.

Our county spends money like..uhh. insert any appropriate reference, but they do keep the drains done and the roads fixed and contract out the line clearing a lot. After the big flood some years back they learned their lesson, I think too many rich folks and even too many gov workers freaked out over it. compared to you guys rain it wasn't a lot, six inch, but it all fell in four hours, and being in a huge valley with mountains each side, man, low areas with creeks and river frontage like here built up fast.

Down here it's flat, so no where for water to go except into rivers a bayous. Harris county has been doing a lot of retention areas throughout flood prone areas. There making retention holding areas along side bayous and some are huge..
But since my culverts are clogged up, the water never gets there.
My street has 24" culverts, and most only have a few inches that water can get through.
I have started hounding the local news about it so maybe they can look into it.\
Funny, once the media runs a story, suddenly people take notice.

 

[sb47]

Well, that there sucks..hmm..littering? maybe you could get the cops to charge them with littering, easy "fine" money for them. the word would get around and they would switch to a yard vacuum for cleanup instead of blowers.

Our county spends money like..uhh. insert any appropriate reference, but they do keep the drains done and the roads fixed and contract out the line clearing a lot. After the big flood some years back they learned their lesson, I think too many rich folks and even too many gov workers freaked out over it. compared to you guys rain it wasn't a lot, six inch, but it all fell in four hours, and being in a huge valley with mountains each side, man, low areas with creeks and river frontage like here built up fast.

COPS!!!, They don' even show up when **** hits the fan down the street.
Takes about 4 hours to show up, if they show at all.
My area is a little rule so getting help takes awhile.
Urban expansion with so much concrete going on. there just pushing water onto someone else.
They have moved the flood plan maps and my street is on it.
Getting flood ins. in a flood plane is expensive.
I can't even bring in yard dirt.
If I wanted to build a new house next door, regulations restrict me to elevate the slab to a point where high water would not get in.
Bureaucratic BS.
BS.

 

[sb47]

I might add that I have lived here since 1968. Almost 50 years. I have seen a lot of floods and TS, Hurricane's
twisters, come and go. Because of so many subdivisions popping up. Infrastructure cant keep up.

 

[sb47]

The story gets better.
I walk next door to my 82 year old mothers house to check on her. She open the door to look outside.
Nothing but water up to the doorstep.
Her little dog sees a skunk on the wood deck escaping the water.
You guessed it. Dog bolted strait for the skunk in what I'd call a MMF fight.
Typical woman, mom tries to break it up. It's rare but I yell'd and cussed my mother to stop and back up.
This was all happening in a narrow hallway about ten feet long.
The dog finally retreats and she picks up the dog.
Now she has to walk (wade) all the way around a work shop.
I'm keeping an eye on the skunk till she get back in the house.
Now her house has water in as well. Plus a dog sprayed by skunk.
It was so strong the skunk itself might as well came in.

 

[sb47]

What surprised me is my spliter was under water, yet not a drop got in.
I went ahead and did a full service on it just to be sure.
The house seems to be drying pretty good. Floors are looking better and should survive.
I may have to replace some base boards and quarter round.
Been washing everything, like close and things that were on the floor.
I think I'm gonna make me some nice looking feet to keep the big furniture up off the floor a few inches.
The little stuff is easy enough to move if i need to.

One project is my shop got about 4" and my generators are on the floor.
They just barley missed getting water in them.
Gonna have to put them up a little higher.
We seem to be having these so called 500 year floods ever 3 to 4 years.
Hope everyone else is well and missed all the bad weather.

 

[abbott295]

If you get 500 year floods every three to four years, you'll be 1000 years old in no time. Einstein's theory of Relativity and all that.