What a rush!

LT.Hit-Man · Post by **LT.Hit-Man** » 2003-04-22 10:36pm

Hi I hope you all are doing well.
For my friends here the reason why I had not been here in a few days wis becuase there was some major flooding out where I am, flooding is normal for this time of year where I am but it had never been as bad as it was a few days ago, took the phones down and washed out the few roads out here.
Needless to say it was a trip and a half.
Have any of you ever had such an expreance?

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2003-04-22 10:37pm

Yes, when I lived in Texas for a few years...currently no.

Hope you made it out well enough though.

LT.Hit-Man · Post by **LT.Hit-Man** » 2003-04-22 10:47pm

Ghost Rider wrote:Yes, when I lived in Texas for a few years...currently no.

Hope you made it out well enough though.

Ya how bad was it in texas I hear that a lot of the out laying aeras in texa get it the worse then the major cites.
Yes I made though the mess ok but it was touch and go, I had to cross a wash out in the road to get home I did not know how deep the wash out was and I nearly got swept away by the raging stream that took out the road, luckly I manged to get the hell out of thar wash out before I got dead, all in all it was kind of cool, near death expreances don't freak me out all that much the only thing I hated about that expreance was that the water was fucking cold, luckly I got home before hypothrema set in.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-04-22 10:48pm

Ugh, flooding sucks...

My sister's basement got flooded last year when there was WAY too much rain for the pathetic Marion water system to handle.

LT.Hit-Man · Post by **LT.Hit-Man** » 2003-04-22 10:51pm

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Ugh, flooding sucks...

My sister's basement got flooded last year when there was WAY too much rain for the pathetic Marion water system to handle.

Shit I hope that she and her famly got out of there safely and that there was not to much damge to her home.

I bet you next year the flooding is going to be a lot worse out here
Were is Marion anyways?

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-04-22 10:56pm

She was divorced, just to let you know. She called us and we had to help move all the stuff in danger to higher ground.

Nothing dangerous, just having to deal with about three to four inches of water from a backed up sewer system. Not really any damage.

Marion is the town that the city of Cedar Rapids pretty much encircles.

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2003-04-22 10:58pm

LT.Hit-Man wrote:
Ya how bad was it in texas I hear that a lot of the out laying aeras in texa get it the worse then the major cites.
Yes I made though the mess ok but it was touch and go, I had to cross a wash out in the road to get home I did not know how deep the wash out was and I nearly got swept away by the raging stream that took out the road, luckly I manged to get the hell out of thar wash out before I got dead, all in all it was kind of cool, near death expreances don't freak me out all that much the only thing I hated about that expreance was that the water was fucking cold, luckly I got home before hypothrema set in.

My worst is because of my ugly childhood(5th grade...in of itself too long of a story) during one such flood in San Antonio...I decided to leave while it was in the midst of heavy raining, making some such excuse that I saw my parent's car.

Just to give an idea, I lived across two dips in a large hilly road, one of which was basically a modified river bed...literally.

So I'm walk through this wonderful raining hell. I pass through the first river relativly well. No real swooshing...just up to my knees.

Then I come up to the big one...now like I said...dry River bed. And yep...now filled with wonderful rushing water. But the two sides had little wire and wood stumps there.

Now me not exactly having really any brains at that age(most of it was beaten out me by five punks...but I digress...later I got back at them) I decided to slowly traverse this thing...and it was easily up to my stomach...about a 5 feet into it. Around halfway I was easily chest high...and for some reason I wasn't swept away but took the procaution of grabbing a hold of of a stump and slowly but surely crossed...got out...walked home.

And proceeded to slump onto the couch drenched.

Honestly I've done dumber...but nothing so blantantly risky.

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2003-04-22 10:58pm

GAAAHHH! Hit-Man, NEVER go through a washout like that! In Arizona we get dead folks evey year for trying that. And if you just get stuck, and have to be rescued, you get charged the "idiot fee" for them having to rescue you. It takes a whole lot less rushing water to overcome a car than most people think. Watch yerself, mon!

Darth Fanboy · Post by **Darth Fanboy** » 2003-04-22 10:59pm

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Ugh, flooding sucks....

Where where you at back in '93 then when Iowa got turned into the sixth great lake?

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-04-22 11:01pm

Cedar Rapids didn't really get hit hard by the Flood.

Our house for example is on a hill that wouldn't get flooded unless the city was under 100 feet of water.

LT.Hit-Man · Post by **LT.Hit-Man** » 2003-04-22 11:18pm

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:She was divorced, just to let you know. She called us and we had to help move all the stuff in danger to higher ground.

Nothing dangerous, just having to deal with about three to four inches of water from a backed up sewer system. Not really any damage.

Marion is the town that the city of Cedar Rapids pretty much encircles.

That is good to know I am glad that there was no major damage in that flood.

LT.Hit-Man · Post by **LT.Hit-Man** » 2003-04-22 11:22pm

[quote="Ghost Rider
My worst is because of my ugly childhood(5th grade...in of itself too long of a story) during one such flood in San Antonio...I decided to leave while it was in the midst of heavy raining, making some such excuse that I saw my parent's car.

Just to give an idea, I lived across two dips in a large hilly road, one of which was basically a modified river bed...literally.

So I'm walk through this wonderful raining hell. I pass through the first river relativly well. No real swooshing...just up to my knees.

Then I come up to the big one...now like I said...dry River bed. And yep...now filled with wonderful rushing water. But the two sides had little wire and wood stumps there.

Now me not exactly having really any brains at that age(most of it was beaten out me by five punks...but I digress...later I got back at them) I decided to slowly traverse this thing...and it was easily up to my stomach...about a 5 feet into it. Around halfway I was easily chest high...and for some reason I wasn't swept away but took the procaution of grabbing a hold of of a stump and slowly but surely crossed...got out...walked home.

And proceeded to slump onto the couch drenched.

Honestly I've done dumber...but nothing so blantantly risky.[/quote]

Trippy glad you lived though that mess, sort of remind me of the blizzrd of 77, me my dad(rip) and my sister where hichicking on manotoba damm near froze to death out there luckly for us a sanding truck saw us and give us a lift into town.

aphexmonster · Post by **aphexmonster** » 2003-04-22 11:25pm

back in 87, the place where i live now was surrounded in 10 feet of water. I live right by the american river, and 7 days of rain caused it to overlap on us. Luckily it hasn't happened since. Thats gotta suck sorreh

LT.Hit-Man · Post by **LT.Hit-Man** » 2003-04-22 11:27pm

Frank Hipper wrote:GAAAHHH! Hit-Man, NEVER go through a washout like that! In Arizona we get dead folks evey year for trying that. And if you just get stuck, and have to be rescued, you get charged the "idiot fee" for them having to rescue you. It takes a whole lot less rushing water to overcome a car than most people think. Watch yerself, mon!

I hear what your saying Frank but I had choce but to get home for reasons I'm not going to get into as for paying the idiot fee you can't get money from a corpes the on the matter of getting rescued that only way I could have been saved was by helicopter and it was raining so bad that all flights where grounded so that did not matter to me besided if your going to die your going to die so why worry?

LT.Hit-Man · Post by **LT.Hit-Man** » 2003-04-22 11:29pm

aphexmonster wrote:back in 87, the place where i live now was surrounded in 10 feet of water. I live right by the american river, and 7 days of rain caused it to overlap on us. Luckily it hasn't happened since. Thats gotta suck sorreh

No kidding you got lucky on that.
Nice avatar what the hell is it?

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2003-04-22 11:31pm

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Cedar Rapids didn't really get hit hard by the Flood.

Our house for example is on a hill that wouldn't get flooded unless the city was under 100 feet of water.

Wasn't there concern about the water level rising too high and contaminating the water treatment plant? Maybe that was Iowa City?

Having grown up in Bettendorf I found it interesting a few years ago when Davenport was making national news for it's flood damage because it was the only city in the area without any real levies or dikes. Supposedly they had more tourism because the view to the river was better this way.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-04-22 11:37pm

I can't remember if there was or not. Not that it really mattered as we have our own well and septic tank.

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2003-04-23 01:06pm

I guess I'm lucky that that I live in PA. I mean, I haven't seen a single disaster greater than some heavy winds in my life.

Cyborg Stan · Post by **Cyborg Stan** » 2003-04-23 01:23pm

LT.Hit-Man wrote:Nice avatar what the hell is it?

'Tis Bass (Japanese : Forte) combined with his robot-dog Treble (Japanese : Gospel) combined with the Super Adapter for flight. From the game Megaman and Bass (aka Rockman and Forte, Megaman 9)

Post by **Zaia** » 2003-04-23 01:30pm

Jeez, babydoll, I'm glad you're ok. *hugs LT*