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Jkm

Friday, July 11, 2003 - 08:33 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I can't believe the water around the area I live -- finally the rain has stopped or at least slowed and missed us a few times --- My house is dry -- but I'm a mile from a river. Our neighbors and friends have all gone to the neighboring towns to spend time helping sandbag - which didn't help in most cases -- Now we wait -- what will it be like when the waters recede?

The near by man made lake can't drain fast enough to keep up with the water coming into it -- those down stream from the dam are now in danger of flooding. In the meantime the force of the river is pushing back up drains and ditches -- reverse flooding of farm fields more than a mile from the river -- what a mess -- worse flood since 1913 here they are saying.

I feel very, very lucky -but overwhelmed on how to help when the waters recede (I'm in no physical shape to handle the sand bagging -- but figured I could show up at some friends and try to help with the clean up )

Some of the pictures the local papers have had in the paper - amazing!

Grooch

Friday, July 11, 2003 - 08:37 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Where is this happening?

Jkm

Friday, July 11, 2003 - 10:18 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Northeast Indiana -- all along the Wabash and several other rivers around here.

Halfunit

Friday, July 11, 2003 - 11:18 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Jkm
Friday, July 11, 2003 - 08:35 am

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what will it be like when the waters recede?




Muddy. Very very muddy. Everything below the high water line will be brown. And watch for standing water with mosquitoes.

Urgrace

Friday, July 11, 2003 - 11:41 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Jkm, our town flooded in '98 and '02. If you go to help someone clean up, remember to wear protective gloves, because the water was not just muddy but carried other germs and bacteria as well. Make sure you wear boots and protective clothing if you are cleaning up outside and have to walk through any water.

Another thing we had to watch out for here in Texas, because it was a river that flooded, was snakes. You may not have that problem, but there are a lot of those furry pests in your area.

Cathie

Friday, July 11, 2003 - 03:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Urgrace, are you in the New Braunfels or Seguin area? I have friends in both who had floods the years you mention.

My mom's hometown in IL flooded 10 years ago from the Mississippi River, so bad that the town was destroyed and FEMA won't let anyone rebuild there (unless they want to build their houses on stilts). My aunt lived there at the time and her house was completely under water for over 45 days. By the time the water receded enough to enter most of the floor had broken away leaving a still-flooded basement. Many snakes and other critters took up residence in the abandoned homes until the houses were all removed. We visited the area 6 months after the flood. All the houses were intact (as much as they could be) and it was like visiting a very muddy, dirty ghost town. Very eerie, very sad.

Most of the floods we have here in TX are flash floods due to continuous heavy rain in areas where there is no run-off available. The flood I spoke of above was expected for weeks in advance, so most of the homeowners had moved furniture and precious belongings out.

I hope your rain will end soon, and things will begin to dry out quickly.

Urgrace

Friday, July 11, 2003 - 08:50 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Golly Cathie, I remember the Mississippi flooding. There was one town that relocated on higher ground back from the river after that. I remember when the Mississippi looked like a dried up prune too.

Yes, I'm in New Braunfels. How close are you?

I also have relatives not far from Jkm.

Riviere

Saturday, July 12, 2003 - 04:13 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I sure wish you all the best!!! My hubby was USCG stationed St Louis when the floods of '93 and then '95 came, he worked both disasters from the Red River north to the Old Miss 100 miles south of us.. He set up comms between the ham operators and Red Cross and other local rescuers and made an award winning webpage about it all with a gazillion resource links of the emergency contacts, but it was taken down last year.. He'd been in the thick of it both nasty years.. His USCG base was lost in '93 and relocated inland, only in 2002 basically had the funds to relocate it, because GEPHART of MO was adamant the base remain in MO, though a site had already existed in IL on higher ground that could have been used immediately saving tax dollars.. We live in IL, bought a home here '96, 20 miles from Old Missy. I've crossed the Wabash many times visiting my kin in MI, up there the apt named River Raisin causes my friends annual spring grief, but they stay and keep buying homes farther away..

Cathie

Saturday, July 12, 2003 - 10:26 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Urgrace, that was my mom's hometown, Valmeyer. They rebuilt on the bluff above the "old" Valmeyer.

I am in Fort Worth, but love to run down to San Marcos and New Braunfels for the outlet malls. We have some up here but not the variety that you have down there. I usually try to sneak in a dinner at the Gristmill in Greune while we're there, too! When I was a child our church camp was in New Braunfels, right on the Guadalupe and we had a great "swimming hole" there. I should put this in the "how do you pronounce" thread, but it bugs me how many people call New Braunfels "New Braunsfel". I want to scream "look at the spelling--you're putting the 's' in the wrong place!!!", but I calmly refer to it with the correct pronunciation, hoping it will rub off on them. :)

Urgrace

Tuesday, July 15, 2003 - 08:04 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hahaha Cathie, yes there are those who mispronounce the name and they are the natives! They act like they don't even notice when someone says the name correctly. Kind of like LBJ and those who live in that area calling the Ped-er-nal-es River -> Perd-n-alice {:-D}

San Antonio was bracing for flooding tonight. Claudette is blowing through. We had the first wave of strong wind and rain this afternoon, butI am not expecting it to be too bad here, except for a few limbs falling out of the trees and hopefully missing the power lines. We shall see.

Cathie

Tuesday, July 15, 2003 - 09:30 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Unfortunately, I don't think we will get any rain from Claudette. We have a cute little high pressure system parked here that will take us into the 100s by the weekend. The good news is I'm heading for Florida by the weekend--yea!!!!!

My daughter was in Belize last week when Claudette blew through there, but fortunately they just had one night of strong wind and heavy rain. By the next day the beaches were fine.

Hmmmmm...where did I go wrong--daughter makes her third trip to Belize and I go to Florida...??? What the heck--it beats the TX heat!!!!!! :)

Jmm

Tuesday, July 15, 2003 - 10:58 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Gracie, How did you fare? No problems I hope. Can you believe that they kept Schlitterbahn open and while all that strong wind and rain were going on my DD was working there? Is that crazy or what?

Cathie

Tuesday, July 15, 2003 - 11:08 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Seems like they would have closed it as a safety issue--was there lightening, too? If so, they were really crazy for keeping it open!

Jmm

Tuesday, July 15, 2003 - 11:38 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Nope, no lightening just cold winds and rain.

Texannie

Wednesday, July 16, 2003 - 04:20 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Looked at Schlitterbahn's weather site and it said that they are open rain or shine, they are expecting rain all day there. :(

Jmm

Wednesday, July 16, 2003 - 05:33 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Texannie, If it's any help, right now dd is getting ready for work and the sun is shining. We only live about 20 minutes away.

Texannie

Wednesday, July 16, 2003 - 06:00 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Yippee!! That is great news. It was thundering and lightening here when I put him on the church bus at 7.