Did someone say they needed rain?

Started by Dweller_Benthos, July 15, 2021, 08:03:44 AM

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Dweller_Benthos

So in another forum, we were talking about (off topic as usual, so I'm making this a new post to not hijack that one further) how the weather is dry in one place and wet in another. Anyway, we've been getting more than our share of rain lately. Yesterday it just went over the top. The county I live in got four inches or more of rain in just a few hours. Well, that means floods. This is the end of my road yesterday evening:

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That's the intersection I drive through every day. I drove through it just before this pic was taken and the water was starting to crest over the hood of the car. Very scary, and I really shouldn't have driven through it but was committed at that point and several others had already gone through, but they had large SUVs and pickup trucks. I have a sedan lol. But I made it through and waited on another roadway for an hour or so until I could get to the next intersection and make my way past more flooding there to get home safely.

Here's another shot of that same intersection from the other side. Note the van in the convenience store parking lot with water almost over the front wheels. This is actually a little lower water level than when I went through there.

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This is the bridge I go over every day, or at least what's left of it. This is just up the road from the intersection in the first two pictures. I had to take a slight detour to get around it on my way to w0#k today.

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I guess this would be considered a century storm as they like to label things these days. I remember my father talking about a rain storm like this when he was a kid, in the 30s or 40s that washed out the roads and caused floods like this.
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PZ

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Man, that's bad!  We sometimes have a bit of flooding especially when winter ends, but nothing like that in the 3-+ years I've lived here. I used to think that I would be okay driving in that kind of flooding because I have a tall pickup, but then realized that there could be a big hole in the street that I couldn't see.

I would not drive through any significant water unless I saw someone else drive through safely first  :anigrin:

Art Blade


PZ

Pretty impressively bad weather!

I'm missing the media in the second link  :main_knockout:

Art Blade

it's available here.. maybe a local thing, "not available in your country" type of thing.

And yes, it's historically bad. Many are dead, more are missing. Villages got washed away.. it's unbelievable.

PZ

Quote from: Art Blade on July 16, 2021, 03:09:59 AM
it's available here.. maybe a local thing, "not available in your country" type of thing.

And yes, it's historically bad. Many are dead, more are missing. Villages got washed away.. it's unbelievable.

:huh-new: I don't know what I'm missing, but I just don't see anything  :main_knockout:

Funny thing - one of the pics you posted from the zeitung was on my local news as they were reporting on the severe flooding in the midwest, and in Germany!

Dweller_Benthos

Yeah the second link is paywalled, but the third one with the video of the town, that's incredible. That's a much larger river system than the little creek that caused the flooding in my area. That's more like the damage some places around here saw after hurricane Irene. That caused some towns to lose almost half their buildings.

I can say one thing, I have little problems driving during a snowstorm, but driving in the flood waters was extremely unsettling. I took a pic of the front of my car, you can see the grass and sticks lodged in the grill that were floating in the flood water as I drove through it.

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Art Blade

nice pic :) I am glad that you didn't come across a deep hole somewhere under water which is the biggest danger during floods. Happened here, someone thought they'd "just" pass the road and then sunk their car.


PZ

Awful!

The second pic looks like my playground filled with Matchbox cars when I was a kid  :o

Art Blade

yeah.. it's unbelievable. Meanwhile over 140 dead, water receding in some regions while it's rising in others.

More pics.

https://www.zeit.de/wissen/umwelt/2021-07/hochwasser-deutschland-fotos-ueberschwemmungen-sonntag

PZ

This morning my wife and I were looking at pics taken in Germany and here in the U.S. - they look eerily similar. Then came up the topic of insurance. Some of the companies are now saying that certain areas are not worth them insuring because it is too expensive. Because the weather is ruining so many homes these days, and the numbers appear to be increasing per year, either insurance companies will need to hugely raise their rates or stop insuring some areas altogether.

Dweller_Benthos

Yes I was thinking of that when looking at the one parking lot behind an apartment building I drive by every day. It was flooded with several cars, some with just the top of the roof sticking out of the water, and realized that insurance might not cover flood damage on a car, depending on the policy. As for homes, flood insurance is sometimes tricky or impossible to get, you can be covered for everything else, but not flood, and in that case, if your home is destroyed or unlivable, your only hope is that the federal government buys it, condemns the land and you can buy or build something elsewhere. If not, you're out of luck.
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PZ

We're so hot and dry in my area the insurance companies will likely cover flood over fire  :banghead:

Dweller_Benthos

Can't we make a big funnel or something, channel our water over to you? Another town nearby got hit by a local storm and they were flooded out yesterday. Three inches of rain in a few hours, and though it wasn't a huge amount of damage, the water caused issues in many places.
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