Need a boat!!!

[CaptPete]

The rain just won't go away!!! In the last week it has rained right at 13" here. Last night we got 6.1". There was a line in our river shed that received 4"-6" last night. The river, that splits our town in half, has risen from 6.5' at midnight to 11.5' at 6:30 this morning...floodstage is 12'. The forcast for the river is to hit 24' by 1:00pm today....that's raising another 12' in the next 6-7 hrs. The record flood is 22.4" in 1999. When the river gets to 18" one brige is closed. When it hits 21.5' the other 2 bridges in town are closed.
This kind of weather and events have been happening all week all over the state.

 

[jaykellogg]

I lived in Iowa in 1993 when DesMoines was flooded and the city was without domestic water for something like 35 days. I moved back to NC in 1996. Earlier in 1993 my sump pump had a hiccup and I got a tiny bit of water in the basement. Monday I took a half day off, went to TSC and got a new sump pump and installed it. Later, I rebuilt the switch in the old pump. When the floods really hit you couldn't buy a sump pump or hose for one for love or money. I was able to sell my 3 year old pump for $50.

I hope your property is on high ground.

 

[Toyman]

I am in NE Iowa , cell phone alert went off 3 times in night warning of flash flooding. I have 2 pumps on 2 separate circuits and a generator back up. Highway 13 south of me closed due to trash washed onto road. County is advise many county road and bridges have damage. Good new rain supposed to stop by noon and 2 dry days to follow

 

[Nico Testosteros]

Send the rain our way. We are in a drought and running out of water

 

[CaptPete]

Send the rain our way. We are in a drought and running out of water

Would love to!!! This has been the wettest our spring on record.

Everybody can look forward to food & gas price to rise this year. Many fields have been washed out, flooded and/or just didn't get planted because of all the rain this spring.

 

[H Richard]

I'm with you, stop the rain. I'm just down river in IL, and we got the FLOOD alert this morning. Huge rainfalls all along north of us and they expect the river to rise possibly 10 feet to past flood stage. This will be our 4th Flood crest so far this year.

 

[gdnagle]

Just be careful and heed all warnings about flooding. The emergency teams have enough to do without rescuing anyone. Anything of real importance you should have packed up and ready to move by now or at least highest level you can put it.

Be safe and cautious, hope you don't get flooded.

 

[Memphiscbrider]

I lived in Iowa in 1993 when DesMoines was flooded and the city was without domestic water for something like 35 days. I moved back to NC in 1996. Earlier in 1993 my sump pump had a hiccup and I got a tiny bit of water in the basement. Monday I took a half day off, went to TSC and got a new sump pump and installed it. Later, I rebuilt the switch in the old pump. When the floods really hit you couldn't buy a sump pump or hose for one for love or money. I was able to sell my 3 year old pump for $50.

I hope your property is on high ground.

That's why you gotta love the mountains. Only low spot is in the valleys

 

[Brian41]

We've had a pretty wet spring here. Last week severe thunderstorms and lost power for 1 1/2 days and was on generator.
We've been sucking up water in a leaky basement all spring and this week have a crew waterproofing the basement. Five thousand for the job and just may have to put some S&W revolvers in classifieds yet.
They had quite a time moving my 2000# safe and have to move it back later. With my bum back I'm no help but when it rains it pours as they say.

 

[jaykellogg]

That's why you gotta love the mountains. Only low spot is in the valleys

The water gets quite deep in the Biltmore area. We also have mudslides in the mountains.

 

[CaptPete]

Well they changed the forecast for the river to hit somewhere between 21' & 25' between 7pm & 9pm this evening. I'm high and dry(well the sump pump is running about every 1 1/2 minutes)...if the river gets to me the whole town will be under.

Yep, know all to well about the emergency teams needing to make rescuing people not heeding the warnings. I was still on the fire dept. in 1999 and spent many hours getting people out of their houses, people off the river, tying up loose boats & LP tanks floating in the river...I was on & off the river about 14 hrs. that day during the worst of the flood.

We had our basement waterproofed 8-9 yrs. ago. So far, so good...the basement is staying dry....worth the $5K we spent. This is the first time since we had it done that it has been this wet. The sump pump will run occasionally after a heavy rain, but nothing like it is right now.

 

[Bullet Bob]

"Send the rain our way. We are in a drought and running out of water "

How can we when we don't know where you are?

 

[Cyrano]

I'll take some too; we haven't had any rain since February, and today is about our 15th day at over 100º; tomorrow the forcast is for 106º.

 

[CaptPete]

Sometime last night/evening they changed the forecast again. They dropped the predicted crest to 15'. I just looked at the river gauge online and it appears as thought it crested about 4:30 this morning at 13.5'......1.5' above flood stage & about 10' below what they originally predicted it to crest at. Good news for a lot of people.

 

[vito]

Here in northwest Illinois we have had the most rain that I have seen in the 17 years I have lived here. Back in April we had 3 days of steady downpours, and my sump pump failed. Although it was only a few inches of water in the lower level of my home, it ended up costing me $18,000 to make right. Now we are again having torrential rains almost daily and my sump pump is going every minute or so. I just hope we don't lose power since I do not have a battery or generator backup yet. I'm supposed to retire in the next few months and I worry that I might have to change my plans if we flood again. If I ever buy another home it will be built above ground without a basement!

 

[gdnagle]

CaptPete glad to here the rise isn't as bad as predicted stay safe...