The 2010 Hartsville Flood

[wuapinmon]

3.89 inches of rain in 90 mins last night, after a week of rain. My laundry room got 3" inside and my shed got about 2". The water got up to a foot deep in my yard due to city drainage from the street into our yard. It looks like all we lost were some cardboard boxes and bags and stuff. I was awake when it happened (1:30AM), so I was able to get out there and stand up my folding tables, get the food storage off the floor, and save a bunch of other stuff from ruin.

I'm glad I have flood insurance, even if we don't have a claim. Two more inches of rain, and we'd've had water in our addition.

[falafel]

t'fuh? Is that your house? Yikes.

[creekster]

glad it wasnt more serious. Best wishes for a fast celanup.

[wuapinmon]

glad it wasnt more serious. Best wishes for a fast celanup.

t'fuh? Is that your house? Yikes.

Thanks for the wishes. The cleanup wasn't too bad. I rented a carpet-drying fan from ACE and when we got home this afternoon, my shed is completely dry. I had to throw away about 30 moving boxes I was saving, some carpet remnants, and a few boxes, but luckily I was able to save tons of stuff because I was awake when it flooded.

My great uncle was a civil engineer for Ventura County, CA for 30+ years. He's retired and lives in Wake Forest now, and he and my aunt are coming down here on Wednesday to survey the land (she's an engineer too) and give me a plan to implement to optimize the drainage should the same thing happen.

Our poor neighbors on the other side of the road had all their ductwork fill up with water from the creek behind their house. Their whole place just reeks of sewage. We're not sure how the sewage got loose, but luckily the street acted like a dike between their flood waters and ours.

I feel bad for them. The house is fine, but the smell, even after things are fixed, is going to take time to go away.

[CardiacCoug]

Crazy pictures, Wuap.

Glad things weren't worse.

[New Mexican Disaster]

You can't catch a break can you?

[ERCougar]

Wow...that is a crazy amount of rain in a short time.

Those pictures remind of my one flood experience. We were in residency in Indiana. We had friends over for dinner one night when it was raining. You could tell it was a big storm, but didn't seem unusual for the midwest. However, when our friends went outside to go home, there was about 3-4 inches of water on the street outside. Our street was elevated a little higher than the street behind us (the way out of our neighborhood), so all the water from our street was draining to the street behind us. On that street, there was 4-5 feet of water (no exaggeration)--literally a river of water. We went out and were walking through chest deep water, pushing vehicles that were floating away onto drier ground. It was unreal.

Our friends had to stay the night and the scene the next morning was amazing--cars on yards, junk scattered everywhere. Just bizarre. I think the cumulative rainfall was pretty high, but nothing like 4 inches in 90 minutes.

Remind me to never live in the same town. I think floods follow you. Or maybe you need to move to southern Utah.

[wuapinmon]

Crazy pictures, Wuap.

Glad things weren't worse.

Gracias.

You can't catch a break can you?

I have a lot to be thankful for, and I don't think that I have more afflictions than others. I think I'm just more (too) open about sharing them with others.

Life is a lot rosier since I got my gallbladder out. There's always that.

Wow...that is a crazy amount of rain in a short time.

Those pictures remind of my one flood experience. We were in residency in Indiana. We had friends over for dinner one night when it was raining. You could tell it was a big storm, but didn't seem unusual for the midwest. However, when our friends went outside to go home, there was about 3-4 inches of water on the street outside. Our street was elevated a little higher than the street behind us (the way out of our neighborhood), so all the water from our street was draining to the street behind us. On that street, there was 4-5 feet of water (no exaggeration)--literally a river of water. We went out and were walking through chest deep water, pushing vehicles that were floating away onto drier ground. It was unreal.

Our friends had to stay the night and the scene the next morning was amazing--cars on yards, junk scattered everywhere. Just bizarre. I think the cumulative rainfall was pretty high, but nothing like 4 inches in 90 minutes.

Remind me to never live in the same town. I think floods follow you. Or maybe you need to move to southern Utah.

After a disaster, there is that surreality that cannot be described unless you've lived it. As to the floods following me, I pissed off Chaac when I was a missionary, and he's been following me ever since. As to the move to southern Utah, I was in St. George when the big floods happened on the Virgin river a few years back. Chaac will get me someday, but not today.

[wuapinmon]

Wow! We've gotten 8.16" of rain so far in August, and 9.68" since July 31st.

We only average about 47" per year, and it rains pretty consistently throughout the year.

[wuapinmon]

What does cj say? "Boom Bitches!"

So, I just got back from a FEMA meeting. After the last rain, they have decided to declare the entire Prestwood Lake district as a "Standard Risk" flood zone. While my streeet is modest ($110k avg), the ones around me are well above-average ($250k, avg) keeping mind that a $250k house in these parts is like a 6bed 7 bath palace.

The meeting was full of rich white people bitching. "I livd hare awl my life and I neverseenit flooood."

Since I am apparently the only person there who currently has a flood insurance policy, good news to me. My house was built in 1962, which makes it a pre-FIRM (flood insurance rate map) structure. Because I have a current policy, with no lapse in coverage, ever, I am grandfathered in as a "premium-risk" policy, and if I ever sell the place, the new owner can buy that policy right if they want.

[pellegrino]

So, I just got back from a FEMA meeting. After the last rain, they have decided to declare the entire Prestwood Lake district as a "Standard Risk" flood zone. While my streeet is modest ($110k avg), the ones around me are well above-average ($250k, avg) keeping mind that a $250k house in these parts is like a 6bed 7 bath palace.

The meeting was full of rich white people bitching. "I livd hare awl my life and I neverseenit flooood."

Since I am apparently the only person there who currently has a flood insurance policy, good news to me. My house was built in 1962, which makes it a pre-FIRM (flood insurance rate map) structure. Because I have a current policy, with no lapse in coverage, ever, I am grandfathered in as a "premium-risk" policy, and if I ever sell the place, the new owner can buy that policy right if they want.

that's a pretty big score for you wuap. I like your imitation of the rich white people, especially the two syllable "flooood." One of my favorite things about southern accents is the creation of extra syllables in monosyllabic words.

[Tim]

that's a pretty big score for you wuap. I like your imitation of the rich white people, especially the two syllable "flooood." One of my favorite things about southern accents is the creation of extra syllables in monosyllabic words.

This makes me miss North Carolina:

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There's a guy on my team who sounds EXACTLY like that.