Totally effed in these parts

[Particle Man]

Flooding all over my area.

I was lucky with just some water damage. Others were not so lucky and lost homes, cars, etc...

[Rangerscott]

Send it here please.

[azoomm]

Yes. Please send it down here.

We are lucky we had enough rain come through a month ago to nearly fill my water tanks. Now.... Not looking like we are going to get any anytime soon.

[Rangerscott]

Just got done with a tonder storm. Just enough to wet the yard.

['73 H1 Triple]

Flooding all over my area.

I was lucky with just some water damage. Others were not so lucky and lost homes, cars, etc...

Sorry to hear but at least you're OK.

One of the guys in upstate Pa on the cub cadet forum got hit pretty hard. His 86 year old neighbor got washed down stream. That doesn't look like a good ending.

[Porkchop]

Super thunderstorms here as I type. My Droid is getting flash flood warnings every 10 minutes...

[Homeslice]

Send it here please.

Send your avatar here please.

OP: that sucks man

[LeeNetworX]

Sorry to hear, James. Hope it gets better for you up there.

We're getting shittons of rain here this year, too. Luckily, flooding isn't an issue in our area. It's all ending up in Lake Lanier, which is still a foot above full pool but has been as high as 2-3 feet above. First time I've seen the lake where it wasn't 6 feet or more below. Everything is growing like crazy, too...especially the weeds.

[CasterTroy]

Pre-emergent FTW Lee :rockwoot: End of Jan and end of may


We're 6" OVER for the year. 4.25" over in Jun alone. We've not had a summer without a drought in almost 18 years.

This is the first year since the days of first owning my own yard, that it's not been brown and dead/dying in June from heat/drought :tremble:

Hope you're drying out Prtcl!

Zoomy, are you on a well or county water as well? or do you ONLY have tanks? Do you rely on rainwater? Or do you have a tank on a trailer that you run to fill up then dump in your tanks at the house?

The more I hear about your house the more I wanna come just to see it and your "estate" :rockwoot:

[LeeNetworX]

Tru-Green puts it down every Winter/Spring. It's not the grass where they are growing it's the landscape beds. Need to find something that kills the weeds without harming the plants (haven't found anything that doesn't harm the plants yet).

[azoomm]

Zoomy, are you on a well or county water as well? or do you ONLY have tanks? Do you rely on rainwater? Or do you have a tank on a trailer that you run to fill up then dump in your tanks at the house?

The more I hear about your house the more I wanna come just to see it and your "estate" :rockwoot:

ONLY tanks. No well and we are too far out for city water. We have 20,000 gallons of main storage with a 500 gallon pre-wash. That storage is triple filtered (paper filter, charcoal filter and UV light) with a pump to the house. I also have 1000 gallons of unfiltered that is gravity fed to the garden.

I can have water delivered - the services out here only charge for the diesel to have it delivered. They don't charge for the water. So, about 2,000 gallons are about $65.

We are putting in a pool after a wildfire scare earlier this year. That means not only a pool for us, but an added water source. Adding shade and wind turbines... http://bionovanaturalpools.com/

Speaking of estate, I have new neighbors that just moved in from California. I haven't met them. It's pretty rare out here to have someone stop by to say hello, with the gates and "Private Property" signs and all :whistle: But, I got a call from our Constable one afternoon:

C: Hey, are you out shooting this afternoon?
Me: Yes.
C: You have a range, right?
Me: Yes, why?
C: You have new neighbors just South of you, right?
Me: Yes. Again, why?
C: [with a bit of a giggle] They just called 9-1-1 to report attack-like gunfire.

The funny part, it was just me, on my range with my 9. Just target practice BANG-TING
BANG-TING
BANG-TING

no rapid fire, no mass amounts of shots. Attack-like. :panic: :lol

Sorry for all the OT, y'all drying out up North yet?

[Turbo Ghost]

C: You have new neighbors just South of you, right?
Me: Yes. Again, why?
C: [with a bit of a giggle] They just called 9-1-1 to report attack-like gunfire.



I think you and your new neighbors are going to get along fabulously! Cali folk are funny!

[Trip]

LOL, welcome to the country...

That natural pool thing is pretty cool, be interested to learn what you think after you have had it for awhile.

[CasterTroy]

ONLY tanks. No well and we are too far out for city water. We have 20,000 gallons of main storage with a 500 gallon pre-wash. That storage is triple filtered (paper filter, charcoal filter and UV light) with a pump to the house. I also have 1000 gallons of unfiltered that is gravity fed to the garden.


:rockwoot:

I'm going to rain harvesting seminars later this summer. That shit is HUGE in DC, and I designed the mechanical on a 12 story condo in DC back in 2007 (Square 54 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_54_Redevelopment)) which was LEED and used a green roof and greywater collection, but that was only used for landscape irrigation.

We're not suffering here, so no one wants to foot the bill for greywater and retention (YET) and with Colorado and other districts now making it illegal, or even TAXING rainwater collection, it's making it even harder to encourage harvesting.

I've told vendors we need some PE points and trying to get more participation thru our office.

As far as the pool......everyone HERE seems to be going saltwater :skep: I'm not a pool person so I don't know all the in's and outs and advantages. Of course...YOU couldn't do that and rely on the water for anything other than fire suppression without some sort of desalinization system...which...well would be stupid.


AWESOME estate Zoomy! :rockwoot:

[OneSickPsycho]

:
As far as the pool......everyone HERE seems to be going saltwater :skep: I'm not a pool person so I don't know all the in's and outs and advantages. Of course...YOU couldn't do that and rely on the water for anything other than fire suppression without some sort of desalinization system...which...well would be stupid.


The salt that goes into a saltwater pool is the same shit you put in your water softener... In an emergency situation, if the pump wasn't working chlorine and salt levels should be reduced to the point of drinkability within a few days... I don't know the specifics, but I'm sure it could be done as a last resort.

Advantages are no more shocking the pool (unless somehow contaminated), the 'salt cell' which converts the salt into chlorine... Less harsh on the skin and all that. The disadvantage is it's another point of failure - cells are like $6-800 and if yours last 5 years you're doing really, really well. My pool was saltwater, but the cell took a shit and I just couldn't justify the cost when chlorine is so cheap and it really doesn't take much more to maintain.

[azoomm]

The salt that goes into a saltwater pool is the same shit you put in your water softener... In an emergency situation, if the pump wasn't working chlorine and salt levels should be reduced to the point of drinkability within a few days... I don't know the specifics, but I'm sure it could be done as a last resort.

Advantages are no more shocking the pool (unless somehow contaminated), the 'salt cell' which converts the salt into chlorine... Less harsh on the skin and all that. The disadvantage is it's another point of failure - cells are like $6-800 and if yours last 5 years you're doing really, really well. My pool was saltwater, but the cell took a shit and I just couldn't justify the cost when chlorine is so cheap and it really doesn't take much more to maintain.

The man reason for looking at BioNova is no need to shock. We travel enough that creating a pool that maintains itself is a huge deal.

Water here is precious. I would love to have those in the suburban world of rooftops understand how dumb their 3am sprinklers are.

[Particle Man]

Keeps coming down - brief reprieve today with the sun out but we're supposed to get more later. They've declared much of the area "disaster" areas.

[azoomm]

Keeps coming down - brief reprieve today with the sun out but we're supposed to get more later. They've declared much of the area "disaster" areas.

:(

I'm really glad y'all are ok.

[Particle Man]

:(

I'm really glad y'all are ok.

Thankfully, I'm up on a hill so all I have to worry about is water running down from behind the house further up the yard. It's come into the basement windows but the French drain along the outside of the basement floor has been keeping up. Carpets got effed, however, but I can cope considering some folks lost their cars, their houses, and everything else they owned.

They have full time police presence in the area because of fucking looters (people SUCK). Apparently, people were going into destroyed houses and ripping out the copper pipes and shit. People continue to sink to new lows in my mind.

[azoomm]

Thankfully, I'm up on a hill so all I have to worry about is water running down from behind the house further up the yard. It's come into the basement windows but the French drain along the outside of the basement floor has been keeping up. Carpets got effed, however, but I can cope considering some folks lost their cars, their houses, and everything else they owned.

They have full time police presence in the area because of fucking looters (people SUCK). Apparently, people were going into destroyed houses and ripping out the copper pipes and shit. People continue to sink to new lows in my mind.
Seriously? I mean, looting the TV is one thing. Taking their pipes is a whole new level of asshole.

[Trip]

Seriously? I mean, looting the TV is one thing. Taking their pipes is a whole new level of asshole.

copper has always been a big thing to loot, they do it all the time from new and abandoned homes. Morons try to steal our copper grounding straps and wires connected to live equipment. Some of them have been lucky enough to live, some of them have provided some interesting pictures of how limbs and genetals explode off the body when exposed to high voltage.

[Homeslice]

There is this scrub who rents out a warehouse to store huge quantities of pennies, because he's hoping the govt decides to stop making them so that it becomes legal to sell them for scrap.

[OneSickPsycho]

There is this scrub who rents out a warehouse to store huge quantities of pennies, because he's hoping the govt decides to stop making them so that it becomes legal to sell them for scrap.

Hopefully they're sorted by date... they've been something like 95% zinc for 30 or so years...

[CasterTroy]

copper has always been a big thing to loot, they do it all the time from new and abandoned homes. Morons try to steal our copper grounding straps and wires connected to live equipment. Some of them have been lucky enough to live, some of them have provided some interesting pictures of how limbs and genetals explode off the body when exposed to high voltage.

When I was in contracting, I had my foremen paint all the copper piping going in that day on a big job (usually a big high school) black to resemble black steel piping because the GC was too cheap to pay for security and the hood ratts that lived where the school was being built would break into the building every night and steel the copper installed that day. Builders risk only pays after $10k of damage has been done so it's up to the subcontractor to insure his own stuff up to that amount. Sucks because it'd be $5k-$8k nightly.

OH...and several of our recent jobs have been designing new condensing units for warehouses who's units were stolen while running at night.

[OneSickPsycho]

One time last summer I went to jiu jitsu and it was like 200 degrees in there... turns out, the night before someone stole the AC units out of most of the places in that plaza. The plaza was set for demo within 3-4 months... the owner replaced everyone's AC unit. No doubt he probably pocketed a few bucks in the deal... and maybe was responsible for the theft to begin with.

[azoomm]

copper has always been a big thing to loot, they do it all the time from new and abandoned homes. Morons try to steal our copper grounding straps and wires connected to live equipment. Some of them have been lucky enough to live, some of them have provided some interesting pictures of how limbs and genetals explode off the body when exposed to high voltage.

No, I know that. I had a condenser stolen off a house I was rehabbing. It just seems so much more low to loot pipes from someone's destroyed home. It's sad.

[Papa_Complex]

Well I've got a couple of small streams running across my basement floor, but not much really. Just small foundation cracks. Toronto, on the other hand, has two major highways that are under water, commuter trains that have their lower floors half full of water, and rivers running in the streets. Buses and subways are apparently shut down.

Mississauga, the city immediately west of Toronto, has 3/4 of its residents without power. I've got friends whose basements and lower floors are under water. What's worse is that it's not going to stop raining all night.

http://www.cp24.com/heavy-rain-causes-flooding-commuter-chaos-1.1358702

http://www.cp24.com/video?clipId=706871

[Particle Man]

Well I've got a couple of small streams running across my basement floor, but not much really. Just small foundation cracks. Toronto, on the other hand, has two major highways that are under water, commuter trains that have their lower floors half full of water, and rivers running in the streets. Buses and subways are apparently shut down.

Mississauga, the city immediately west of Toronto, has 3/4 of its residents without power. I've got friends whose basements and lower floors are under water. What's worse is that it's not going to stop raining all night.

http://www.cp24.com/heavy-rain-causes-flooding-commuter-chaos-1.1358702

http://www.cp24.com/video?clipId=706871
Freaking crazy

[Papa_Complex]

I'm just lucky that Brampton has flood control channels and higher elevation.

['73 H1 Triple]

....

Mississauga, the city immediately west of Toronto, has 3/4 of its residents without power. I've got friends whose basements and lower floors are under water. What's worse is that it's not going to stop raining all night.



Crap, I just got a Kawi triple oil pump to helicoil for a guy from Mississauga. Hope he's OK

[Papa_Complex]

Well Toronto got its entire normal rainfall, for the month of July, in less than an hour last night. The total was almost 5 inches which broke the record set in 1954, by Hurricane Hazel. No casualties reported.

A few subway stations are closed, due to flooding, and 3 of the 7 commuter train lines are closed for the same reason. The last of the one thousand train passengers, that were stranded when the track and their train flooded, were finally pulled off by boat around 1:00am.

Minimal water damage here, at work, which is quite a change given that we're in a sub-basement and have had ongoing issues with leaks.

By comparison Hamilton, which is just 40 miles to the southwest of Toronto, got something like 2 inches of rain.

[azoomm]

Wow, y'all stay safe.

We had .2 inches of rain yesterday. WooHoo!!!! /ugh

[Papa_Complex]

This city generally bounces back pretty quickly. The most circulated pictures were of the Don Valley Parkway which looked more like a muddy Venetian canal, than like a major highway. It was reopened, in both directions, by 7:30am today. Most of the subways are back up and running. Just a few stations are still closed for cleanup. There are still some local roads closed due to fallen trees and flooding, and Disco Road (yes, we have a disco road) had a major sink hole open up in it.

*EDIT* Pictures and video:

http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/dramatic-photos-show-parts-of-toronto-underwater-1.1358806

[CasterTroy]

That's NOT a storm drain!!!!

http://i.embed.ly/1/display/resize?key=1e6a1a1efdb011df84894040444cdc60&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpbs.twimg.com%2Fmedia%2FBOr2MYMCM AAAaoI.jpg

:skep::tremble:


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[Trip]

Rivers are starting to get worrisome down here. people on the mississippi are going to get fucked again. We are spilling constantly right now, have fun with that Ohio River and Mississippi River people.

[Gas Man]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NLaVUc3Pzdo

[Papa_Complex]

That's NOT a storm drain!!!!

http://i.embed.ly/1/display/resize?key=1e6a1a1efdb011df84894040444cdc60&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpbs.twimg.com%2Fmedia%2FBOr2MYMCM AAAaoI.jpg

:skep::tremble:

Actually yes, that's a storm drain.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NLaVUc3Pzdo

Whoever made that video would open his veins after one season in Seattle or Vancouver.

[CasterTroy]

Actually yes, that's a storm drain.





you kill the funny homie :td:

[Papa_Complex]

you kill the funny homie :td:

The poop was further south ;)

[Papa_Complex]

Turns out that one of the 'victims', who was interviewed after being stuck on the flooded train, was actually a cop who thought it would be funny to pretend to be. Less funny to him, now that he's busted to traffic.

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/07/16/toronto_cop_disciplined_for_posing_as_flood_victim .html

[Trip]

ha ha, awesome