Here come the floods

[The70RT]

We had 11 inches of rain over the weekend. A creek over a half a mile away backed up everyones basment when it breached a lake a few miles away. My best frend lives on the street that runs beside the creek and woke up too a foot of water in his house and by the time he could get out it was 4 foot in is street.....he lost almost everything. I started my clean up yesterday after pumping out water. It' is a nightmare I have a 1300 square feet of basement and I spent a ton of money on the water prevention thing and then the sewer drain flooded it. Luckily I got only a foot of water. It is packed with boxes of vintage car parts stacked 3-4 feet high in most of it. Some stuff I had for over 30 years. Hopefully I will be able to save most of it. It all has to go to the garage up front where we park are drivers. My charger is at the blaster shop now but that sets the resto back now for a couple months doing all this.  ........lookes like missouri is getting all of our water now.

[CharlieCharger]

Man that sucks..Make sure your insurance is up to date..Lets hope it doesn't get that far in the first place..

[BMOTOXSTAR]

I live in Lake County, Ohio. Remember last summer, we had a huge flood. It made national news and was declared a disaster area. Thank god my house was spared, not a drop of water in my basement !

[The70RT]

Man that sucks..Make sure your insurance is up to date..Lets hope it doesn't get that far in the first place..

I wasn't in the flood zone so i didn't have flood coverage. All I had was 5k for sewer back up. So I had to upgrade. Im glad it din't get any higher than it did. My neighbor had 3 ft.

[Shakey]

I flew into Kansas City this afternoon and noticed the swollen rivers.  I even saw some rail cars half underwater from the plane.

[RD]

Ottawa, Kansas

[Shakey]

Ottawa, Kansas

Great - my destination on Wednesday.

[ck1]

I feel for you..........i have been flooded out 3 time in fall of 1994 and 1995....................It really sucks..............FEMA helped out replacing allot of my stuff in the house and garage that got ruined, insulation, draywall, paint, dry rot etc..............I kept bugging them about money to have my house raised tell they directed me to a person who was involved in lobbying the government for money to have people houses in the area to be raised......it finally happined that fallowing summer and got a interest free loan that you don't have to pay for tell you sell your house, "note this is great for the terms but it puts a lean against your house tell you pay loan off which i haven't"...........anywho i had my house raised over 3 feet, you can tell from the back, "picture" but you can't from the front.......use to have to drive down into my gargage, now you drive slightly up...............it was my design which allot of contractors didn't want to do and there bids were really high, but the contractor that was willing to do it my way was the cheapest and best for I didn't want it to look like you could drive a two story sailboat in to my garage and walk up a flight of step to get into the house from the front.........raised the front small yard up to make in look un-raised from the front...............if you want help from the government and FEMA bug the crap out of them relentlessly............my problem was because of the boobs that built this housing development blocked the natural stream that flowed out of this low spot in middle of housing development with a road without putting in a very large culvert

[RD]

Ottawa, Kansas

Great - my destination on Wednesday.

really?  if so, call me at 620-757-1284.  Shakey, that is where I work, we can hook up.

[41husk]

The Missouri is over flood stage now and runs into the Mississipi, sure hope this isn't another 92

[AlexInOklahoma]

I am surprised there's even water there with all that's been falling *here*.  Well, maybe the winds/tornadoes have pushed it uphill, LOL!

Alex

[Nacho-RT74]

heeeey ALEX!!! WELCOME BACK

[Todd Wilson]

We have some flooding in Hutch here. Friends sent me some pictures and we got some off the railroad bridge last night. We had a wash out on the tracks out by Greensburg after the twister and they havent ran trains in 2 days. Our switch engine gets to come out and play without having to get out of the way which makes it nice.











From the trees back is usually the river. They mow from tree's forward several times a summer.

[41husk]

Man thats some water.  How far are you from Hayes KS.?

[Todd Wilson]

Man thats some water.  How far are you from Hayes KS.?

2 hours or so.


Todd

[Todd Wilson]

Here's all the pictures of the water.

http://www.chargerfever.com/07flood/index.html


Todd

[The70RT]

Todd - did you hear about the loss of two engines up here. A bridge was weakend and collapsed as the engines went over. I think they survived but are in the hospital.

[RD]

Todd - did you hear about the loss of two engines up here. A bridge was weakend and collapsed as the engines went over. I think they survived but are in the hospital.

wasnt that by Fort Riley?

[Charger_Fan]

Man, that's some crazy stuff!
'Skeeter season's gonna suck.

[Nacho-RT74]

do you want some FLOOD...

Here what did happen on dec 99 down here...

death account ? still unknown. Aproximatelly calculations 20K deaths

this is kinda historical Vargas history, specially firts part, and then they tell the tragedy on next ones. Sorry, is in Spanish
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU_zTtSNluM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR4cGxEXfK4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV7O016CPzs

Some death bodies were found around 300 Km from the place where the flood happened

I know Asian Tsunami was even worse, but this was with just RAIN joined with the water falling from the  mountain. Very different stuff.

A friend of mine was on a house roof after get saved and tired of swim and saw the rest ppl trying to swim on the water... some of them were smashed with falled trees... he saw some heads blowed.

[Todd Wilson]

Todd - did you hear about the loss of two engines up here. A bridge was weakend and collapsed as the engines went over. I think they survived but are in the hospital.

wasnt that by Fort Riley?

Yup! Up by there and then around salina we lost 8 miles of track.  Things are backed up bad here in Kansas.


Todd

[472 R/T SE]

Man thats some water.  How far are you from Hayes KS.?

Why do you ask about Hays?

Hey Alex, loooonnng time no see, welcome back.


It's never consistent back there, either a deluge of it or drought.

[ck1]

We have some flooding in Hutch here. Friends sent me some pictures and we got some off the railroad bridge last night. We had a wash out on the tracks out by Greensburg after the twister and they havent ran trains in 2 days. Our switch engine gets to come out and play without having to get out of the way which makes it nice.











From the trees back is usually the river. They mow from tree's forward several times a summer.

You get to ride or drive a train I want  :yesnod:to do that.......................

[Forza]

Man thats horrible. I got lucky and most of the flooding hit to the North and South of my county. Its sure going to be a crappy summer, lots of standing water = lots of mosquitos  .

[Shakey]

Ottawa, Kansas

Great - my destination on Wednesday.

really?  if so, call me at 620-757-1284.  Shakey, that is where I work, we can hook up.

RD,

Perhaps next time.  My meeting was from 10:00 AM - 2:30 PM and then it was straight to MCI for the flight home.  I'm down there a few times a year and one of these times I'll give you a heads up and maybe we can have lunch at the Mexican restaurant or Driver's Cafe.

One of these days.   

[RD]

Ottawa, Kansas

Great - my destination on Wednesday.

really?  if so, call me at 620-757-1284.  Shakey, that is where I work, we can hook up.

RD,

Perhaps next time.  My meeting was from 10:00 AM - 2:30 PM and then it was straight to MCI for the flight home.  I'm down there a few times a year and one of these times I'll give you a heads up and maybe we can have lunch at the Mexican restaurant or Driver's Cafe.

One of these days.   

sounds good, who did you meet with?

[41husk]

Man thats some water.  How far are you from Hayes KS.?

Why do you ask about Hays?

June 14-16 I may be taking some wrestlers to a tournament there, i belive its about 7 hours from StLouis MO.

[6670charger]

I'm living in Junction City, KS temporarily wihile I'm on Active Duty.  We've had quite a bit of flooding out here too, along with the tornado that wiped out a whole town about 4hrs from here.  Be nice when the spring weather settles down a bit.

[Todd Wilson]

Todd - did you hear about the loss of two engines up here. A bridge was weakend and collapsed as the engines went over. I think they survived but are in the hospital.

Got some pictures of the Ft Riley crash.






All the pics


http://www.chargerfever.com/ftrileytrain/index.html



Todd

[The70RT]

Todd - did you hear about the loss of two engines up here. A bridge was weakend and collapsed as the engines went over. I think they survived but are in the hospital.

Got some pictures of the Ft Riley crash.






All the pics


http://www.chargerfever.com/ftrileytrain/index.html



Todd

That looks like a different one then from another I seen on tv. I was thinking there was one closer to Topeka? Maybe not?