Emergency Notice: Flooded Out

Cloud · Post by **Cloud** » Mon May 15, 2006 10:54 am

luck with everything sounds like a tough mess is good, isn't it! Try saying that with more context.

Not Sir Phobos · Post by **Not Sir Phobos** » Mon May 15, 2006 11:19 am

Water water everywhere and not a drop to OH MY GOD IT'S COMMING IN THROUGH THE WINDOWS!!!!!!!!

Wow, I hope everything turns out okay. Bad feeling when the authorities tell you to leave your house.

Be safe.

glorff · Post by **glorff** » Mon May 15, 2006 12:50 pm

It is worse when they tell you that you have to stay, because there is no way to get out

Multitudinous dry thoughts sent your way

shellie · Post by **shellie** » Mon May 15, 2006 2:26 pm

I hope by this time you are far, far away on the top of some hill somewhere! You poor thing! I hope the water recedes quickly and that you will be back home to shop-vac the little bit of water out of your almost-dry basement soon! (Yes, this is wishful thinking, but HEY, it works sometimes!

)

Add my bazillion dry thoughts to everyone else's!

Cloud · Post by **Cloud** » Mon May 15, 2006 2:26 pm

Don't feel sorry for me, weird no comments.

aernath · Post by **aernath** » Mon May 15, 2006 3:50 pm

I was wondering about any betarians out that way when I saw the CNN spot too!

OOoo! I hope your second floor remains dry!!!

*sends even more dry DRY parched and arid thoughts your way*

Baakay · Post by **Baakay** » Mon May 15, 2006 6:00 pm

Ugh!!

I hadn't seen the news reports until just a bit ago. Footage of the waters rushing up the sides of the old textile miles is an eerily familiar sight!

It looked bad enough that I called my sister in Pittfield, Mass. to see how they were doing. They're up on a little crest, so are high and dry, but folks on the southern coast of Maine are in some places stranded because the little old bridges are washed out. Some of those old dams on the tributaries are NOT going to take this much water very well. They're old and ... well, old. (I was going to say old and rickety, but I don't know having not seen them.) But it's not pretty in any event. Worry, worry.

The last time I saw anything like that -- other than Katrina, which is in a whole league of its own -- was in 1993 in Iowa.

I don't know what part of the area you're in, Kujaku, but I hope its a part that is experiencing the tapering-off part of the storm now!!

animeobsessed · Post by **animeobsessed** » Mon May 15, 2006 6:29 pm

Sending dry and sunny thoughts your way. I hope you and your family are safe.

Cloud · Post by **Cloud** » Mon May 15, 2006 6:30 pm

Don't worry about it, animeobsessed.

klet · Post by **klet** » Mon May 15, 2006 7:02 pm

Baakay wrote:We'd be happy to split the difference with you out here... you send us some of your wet, we send you some of our dry...

kymaera and I have plenty of dry to send you . . .

I hope you and your loved ones make it through all right!!!

Kujaku · Post by **Kujaku** » Tue May 16, 2006 7:58 am

Hi EveryOne!!!!!!!!! Thank you for the Warm, Dry Thoughts <----yes, I added the warm in there this time, it's a bit cold. We left safely, and I'm currently near my house, which doesn't look good from where I'm at. the damn rain is still going

The land is so saturated with water, that the new rain falling is making the rain level rise higher.

(I throw my fist at the rain

). I left my girls up at a friends place about less than 3 hours away from where we live. So they're nice and cozy. We originally tried going to one of the shelters, but it started to fill up. Since we had alternatives (friends, yay) it was best we leave what little room there was to people that didn't have any other means. I'm currently back because I was approached and asked to help. So I drove back this morning, cheated a bit to check my drenched house from afar

& drop everyone a line to say that I'm okay and appreciate the dry thoughts

I'll drop back in later.

Cloud · Post by **Cloud** » Tue May 16, 2006 8:00 am

Hmm. What kind of car do you have?