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[Packy]

Good morning Cafe and thanks for the coffee.
The river shot up 5.5 ft in 6 hours.
My yard hasn't been this flooded in years. I'm sure some side tributaries have come over their banks but I haven't left the hill yet.
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If this had been a snow event, we'd be buried.

@DobieLover my yard was flooded here in NC, funny thing is we use to live off the Susquehanna and would fear the flood gate horns going off!
Stay safe please

 

[sourland]

Good morning, and thanks for the coffee. Rain predicted here until 3 PM - lots of run off, but so far the cellar is dry

 

[ShrekDawg]

I thought it was supposed to clear up around 1 but now I think it’s supposed to continue raining till 3-4 and the wind warning is until 7pm. That’s the worst part.

 

[Insnesnakos]

Good morning BYC cafe
It was raining and windy this morning too where I live

 

[ShrekDawg]

 

[DobieLover]

@DobieLover my yard was flooded here in NC, funny thing is we use to live off the Susquehanna and would fear the flood gate horns going off!
Stay safe please

Oh, I'll be fine.
I moved up to the top of a large hill out of the flood zone 8 years ago. My yard drains around the house down to the ditch along the road.
The very first house I bought was in zone B. It got changed to zone AE (same as the river) in 2008 after the 2006 record breaker 33.6' at Vestal "500-year" flood. We got hit again with a new record breaker in 2011: 35.26'... exactly 5 days before I was due to close on the sale of that house.
That 1.66' extra depth was all it took to flood the main level of a ranch house causing catastrophic damage (damage where the repair estimate is equal to 50% or more of the value of the house).
This is what really started me on the house flipping adventure. I only had $19K to repair the house. Between help from local businesses giving discounts on appliances, DH and I repaired the house for $19K and I started renting it out. I managed to recover the original sales price plus several extra thousand at the end of that unpleasant adventure.
Needless to say, I'm thrilled to be rid of that particular property.

Pictures of the flood.
This is my exit when I'm coming home.

There is a street approximately where the red line is next to the gas station/McDonalds. That is where I enter my neighborhood. My old house is a little past where the star is.

The house is marked with the red flag. The area partially enclosed in red is where I've running my dogs for over 25 years. I have access to another 30+ acres at the top of the hill.

 

[Mtn Margie]

Wow! Sunny and near 50F today for us. I am doing the doctor run again for my friend, plus some blood work and shopping. I will probably do a MORF list as well.
Tomorrow, I am pretty sure, we will start delivering firewood while the weather is nice.
(I was working at the party, too!) Just 2 cords and we have DS$'s help so it should go fast.
Stay safe, warm, and dry Cafe! Hugs!

 

[Sally PB]

We're on top of a hill, about 80-90 feet above the Flat river. The "100 year flood" of 2013 was nothing, really, to us, but it sure was a problem for the town 10 miles away on the Grand River.

5" of rain in two hours, like last April, however... different story. No water in the house (thank goodness!), but a river ran through my garden.

Right now, we're getting enough heavy wet snow tomake the ground white.

 

[cow whisperer]

Afternoon all! Had a great lunch date with FH yesterday at Texas Roadhouse. Once we got home we satin our recliners and watched TV seeing how it was raining and now today the wind is bad- lost count how many times I've had to fix my Christmas inflatables.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Good morning Cafe, We are still dry.
When we get the heavy rains where rain will make a river from the garden.