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  • #1

    So, my town in pretty much underwater

    Yeah. This hurricane east coast thing has turned my state into a giant swimming pool.

    I live on top of a huge sand ridge, so I'm fine here, but there's three rivers running through my town and right now, they seem to be doing their level best to have a party with each other. Had a Liberty Tax collapse across the river, lost two dams (that I know of) so far, and a bridge collapsed about 45 minutes north of me.

    I damn near went to the beach this weekend, I'm sure glad we cancelled that trip. Hell, another night of rain like we just had, I suspect I'll have the ocean in my backyard by tomorrow.

    I lived through Hugo, and I ain't never seen anything like this.
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    Ouch. Stay safe!
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    • #3
      Where I am we're getting the very edges of it, nothing more than rain even though it has already been really wet and cold here the last couple of weeks.

      It sounds like the rivers are already having parties, the destruction's definitely there!
      The fact that jellyfish have survived for 650 million years despite not having brains gives hope to many people.

      You would have to be incredibly dense for the world to revolve around you.

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      • #4
        I'm actually starting to get kind of worried over here. I'm okay here, but okay is relative when your town is under water. Seriously, under water. I have never seen anything like this, and I have seen some crazy shit in my life.

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        • #5
          Do you have any way to get out if things get worse?
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          • #6
            I really wish we could somehow average out your floods with my drought, which would get both sides of the country to just about right.

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            • #7
              Hate to give you bad news, but I've just been dispatched on a run to the South Carolina coast. I'll be delivering a load of boat building supplies to some guy named Noah.
              Any fool can piss on the floor. It takes a talented SC to shit on the ceiling.

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              • #8
                Quoth Seanette View Post
                I really wish we could somehow average out your floods with my drought, which would get both sides of the country to just about right.
                Yeah, it would be great if there was some kind of cross-continental pipe system where we could pipe excess water from flooded places to drought-ridden places. The cost would be astronomical, though.
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                • #9
                  Quoth XCashier View Post
                  The cost would be astronomical, though.
                  Not a problem Will will just add a penny tax to every cat picture viewed on the Internet. In less than a week the water shipment will be paid for.
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                  • #10
                    Quoth Ironclad Alibi View Post
                    Not a problem Will will just add a penny tax to every cat picture viewed on the Internet. In less than a week the water shipment will be paid for.
                    (snicker) Hmmmm.

                    That might actually work.
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                    • #11
                      My street was flooded yesterday, I mean it was flooded like I haven't seen it before. I am thankful I did not have to work yesterday or today, I seriously doubt I'd be able to make it in -- not that I would want to. Work can kiss my ass if they thought I would've been able to drive through nearly 3.5 feet of water that was right in front of my damn house; lucky that water drained and more water took it's place overnight.

                      Currently the only damage I can see is me beating the shit out of a couple of neighbors for their stupidity -- other then that, yea....
                      Eh, one day I'll have something useful here. Until then, have a cookie or two.

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                      • #12
                        Quoth Android Kaeli View Post
                        Currently the only damage I can see is me beating the shit out of a couple of neighbors for their stupidity -- other then that, yea....
                        That sounds like a tale we would to hear about. Is karma involved?
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                        • #13
                          Quoth Ironclad Alibi View Post
                          That sounds like a tale we would to hear about. Is karma involved?

                          At this point I couldn't tell you if Karma has done anything yet but it's still early in the week yet. It's not an epic tale although the epicness of the stupidity of both neighbors is, well, epic.

                          Stupid Neighbor #1 lives across the street from me and decided either Friday or sometime Saturday that it would be brilliant to rake up any mulch/leaves/fallen limbs from his property and put them in his trash can before the worst of the storm hit. Which is a Not a Bad Idea in itself, but when said neighbor decides to leave said trash can where his driveway meets the street and drive away to somewhere else for the duration of the storm?

                          Yea, his trash can ended up in the middle of the road yesterday with about 75% of it's contents clogging up the two storm drains on my end of the street [one of which is right next to the end of my driveway]. It took myself, the roommate, my neighbors to the right, their two sons, and the neighbors two doors down about an hour or so to get the drains un-clogged -- all in hip-deep water with rain pouring down. I took a long shower after that.

                          Stupid Neighbor #2 lives about four houses down from me. Although the worst of the storm was gone by this time, it still was not exactly calm either since it still rained pretty hard and the wind decided it wanted to try and be hurricane-grade. Which didn't help this neighbors trash can either, this one ended up between both my car and the roommate's car! Neighbor #2 is damn lucky their trash can didn't make even a scratch in either one of our cars, but again something had to be cleaned up.

                          Which was several broken glass wine bottles in front of three driveways. I only noticed it when I went out to retrieve neighbor #2's trash can and made sure that the three neighbors in between us were notified to, you know, be careful about broken glass. I did what I could to get most of the broken glass up since it was still raining and there was some minor flooding [not like it had been yesterday] so I couldn't get all of it up.

                          I don't know where these neighbors went off to, they still aren't back yet. We did make sure to alert the proper channels about it but I don't think anything will happen, there's just too much other things going on for anyone higher then our HOA to do anything about it.
                          Eh, one day I'll have something useful here. Until then, have a cookie or two.

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                          • #14
                            On the leaf guy -- I don't suppose he has a metal can that might be susceptible to the *ahem* Office Space treatment? Or, at least, a big sign reading "YOU STUPID FUCKER", along with an anonymous explanation about why what he did was bad.
                            "For a musician, the SNES sound engine is like using Crayola Crayons. Nobuo Uematsu used Crayola Crayons to paint the Sistine Chapel." - Jeremy Jahns (re: "Dancing Mad")
                            "The difference between an amateur and a master is that the master has failed way more times." - JoCat
                            "Thinking is difficult, therefore let the herd pronounce judgment!" ~ Carl Jung
                            "There's burning bridges, and then there's the lake just to fill it with gasoline." - Wiccy, reddit
                            "Retail is a cruel master, and could very well be the most educational time of many people's lives, in its own twisted way." - me
                            "Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down...tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens...makes her a home." - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds, "Serenity" (2005)
                            Acts of Gord – Read it, Learn it, Love it!
                            "Our psychic powers only work if the customer has a mind to read." - me

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                            • #15
                              I'd have left the cleaned-up trash on the corresponding neighbor's doorstep.

                              The Warts next door to me sometimes throw trash in our yard. We throw it right back.
                              When you start at zero, everything's progress.

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