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Non-NEC Console Related Discussion => Chit-Chat => Topic started by: toymachine78 on October 04, 2015, 04:41:42 AM
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Just thought I'd post some local pics of what were dealing with in South Carolina this morn.
We've had 11 straight days of rain, and 20inches alone this weekend. I've never seen anything like this.
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The family and obey are all safe and dry. For the most part my neighborhood is in pretty good shape. We can't leave the house though because so many roads and bridges are washed out and/or collapsed. Good thing I've got beer and games to play.
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Is this rain related to the hurricane in the atlantic? If not, I cant image what would happen if that thing had turned towards the carolinas...
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Is this rain related to the hurricane in the atlantic? If not, I cant image what would happen if that thing had turned towards the carolinas...
According to the meteorologists, the hurricane exacerbated the problem but didn't cause it. It was some weird weather systems that combined to channel moisture from the Atlantic and straight over SC.
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Yeah, the hurricane is staying in the Atlantic but a low pressure system over the Carolinas is drawing the moisture from the hurricanes this way. It's rained all week here in NC but that's nothing compared to what SC got.
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How bad was it in Columbia, the capitol ?
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How bad was it in Columbia, the capitol ?
Real bad. They are rescuing people in boats. A lot of the city is in pretty low lying areas, not to mention that three major rivers converge near the center of the city.
The third pic above is a store on forest drive in cola.
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Jesus Christ, that is insane.
Damn.
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How bad was it in Columbia, the capitol ?
Real bad. They are rescuing people in boats. A lot of the city is in pretty low lying areas, not to mention that three major rivers converge near the center of the city.
The third pic above is a store on forest drive in cola.
Oh wow!
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Jesus, I hope my family in Lexington are faring okay...
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The family and obey are all safe and dry. For the most part my neighborhood is in pretty good shape. We can't leave the house though because so many roads and bridges are washed out and/or collapsed. Good thing I've got beer and games to play.
That is good to hear man and I hope the forecast is looking at more sunshine in the days to come. 11 days of rain! Just wow.
Keep safe
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:shock: that's a lot of water right there.
Hope all stays well for you. I Must say I'm (VERY) glad to be spared the flooding this time, well mostly, the cane is still pushing water inland. ( We got lucky with only 6 straight days of rain, and a ton of wind. )
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Jesus, I hope my family in Lexington are faring okay...
Chances are they are OK. Lexington faired a lot better than Columbia. A lot of damage to roads, dams/dykes, and bridges, but I don't think the property damage was too bad here. I think the worst was along mill creek and 12 mile creek.
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Well, I hope you other guys there or your next of kin get through this OK.
My home could in no way survive a genuine flooding given its age and the structural damage caused by termites... Those are some ferocious creatures, I saw what they did to the balcony my dad built out at his house in the suburbs; it was amazing how in short order they had destroyed a balcony/patio and stairs that he had built. It was his fault for using regular lumber and not the green treated exterior type of course, but still, they worked on that wood pretty damn good once they started their colony I guess... I helped demolish it when I visited and I almost got hurt in the process while on a ladder. :/
But back on flooding, we've had minor ones here that have caused some trouble. Huge sinkholes appeared after one of the recent ones throughout the city, one on my neighbor's side of the street, add also some flash floods under those passage ways for train tracks, etc.
A real bad one going much further back shorted the electrical wires buried in the backyard going to power my garage. I had to replace that myself with another wiring idea, and I wasn't gonna pay another electrician after the one with the garage crew took $900 and his way only lasted a couple of years up to that flood... But all in all, in this area, it never rises above a few inches so most homes never saw serious damage. IF you have a concrete basement/basement floor/etc, some homes will have had issues there though, but yeah...
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It doesn't help that some parts of Columbia used to be swampland. I actually used to live off that road in the last picture, maybe 500 yards away? Anyway, I live on top of a hill, so I'm all good. We still have power and beer, but no water. No classes tomorrow either at the University of SC. All in all, it's really bad in some places, but most are pretty good.
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http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_EAST_COAST_RAINSTORM?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-10-04-10-50-54
The monsoon of South Carolina ? Once in 1,000 years ??
Curfews have been ordered, dozens of people are in need of rescue, several interstates are closed and four people are dead in some of the worst flooding South Carolina has ever seen, officials said Sunday.
Emergency managers sent out a statewide alert telling people to remain indoors.
"Stay home. Stay off the roadways," Thom Berry, South Carolina Emergency Management spokesperson, told The Weather Channel on Sunday. "Don't get on the roadways because you very likely can become part of the problem."
Officials are worried life-threatening impacts will only worsen as the 1-in-1,000-year rain event continues. Authorities said hundreds of people were in need of rescue Sunday as the floodwaters kept rising all over the Palmetto State. Columbia, the state capital, was the hardest hit.
At least 5 people have been killed by the flash floods in South Carolina, and officials worry that number will rise. Swift-water rescue teams have been dispatched all over the state to help pluck stranded residents out of flooding. Authorities have asked citizens to only call 911 if there's a life-threatening emergency.
"Move to higher ground now. This is an extremely dangerous and life-threatening situation," wrote the National Weather Service's Charleston office in a Sunday morning flash flood statement.
So full on "2012" (the shitty movie) level natural disaster going ? :/
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It doesn't help that some parts of Columbia used to be swampland. I actually used to live off that road in the last picture, maybe 500 yards away? Anyway, I live on top of a hill, so I'm all good. We still have power and beer, but no water. No classes tomorrow either at the University of SC. All in all, it's really bad in some places, but most are pretty good.
You're a fellow midlander! Welcome!
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Check it out, you got Al Roker down there reporting live! Selfie-time, look, natural disaster behind us, oh, say cheese! ;)
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Holy hell this is ridiculous! I didn't notice it mentioned here, but apparently caskets are starting to be uprooted(for lack of a better word) & floating around. The flooding is horrendous, & now there's ancient dead people surfing the waters! All I can do is pray for you & hope for the best. They're saying that here in Southern Cali we'll be having flooding this winter. We need the rain thanks to the drought, but I don't look forward to flooding. In my mobile home park, we apparently had a bunch of flooding in the 90's & they're saying it'll be much worse. I really don't know how a mobile home does in floods. On one hand, we're several feet above the ground, but if it gets as crazy as it is in SC, I'm gonna be living in a boat. :P
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Check it out, you got Al Roker down there reporting live. Selfie-time, look, natural disaster behind us, oh, say cheese! ;)
(https://s5.postimg.cc/lnnz98ujr/Al_Roker_Disaster_Selfie_Time.png)
I agree completely—maybe it's not the time for a selfie if you can't do it in a way that respects the fact that entire communities have been ripped apart.
Unless of course the cute little yellow truck they were driving washed away and slid into the pit that used to be a road. That would be funny and worthy of a picture.
"Clueless news personalities lose vehicle whilst taking a selfie"
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Jeez I had no idea there were so many south caroleeners on here. Makes me feel warm & fuzzy on the inside. :) Bless y'all's hearts...
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Holy hell this is ridiculous! I didn't notice it mentioned here, but apparently caskets are starting to be uprooted(for lack of a better word) & floating around. The flooding is horrendous, & now there's ancient dead people surfing the waters! All I can do is pray for you & hope for the best. They're saying that here in Southern Cali we'll be having flooding this winter. We need the rain thanks to the drought, but I don't look forward to flooding. In my mobile home park, we apparently had a bunch of flooding in the 90's & they're saying it'll be much worse. I really don't know how a mobile home does in floods. On one hand, we're several feet above the ground, but if it gets as crazy as it is in SC, I'm gonna be living in a boat. [emoji14]
Do you have a link to that report? I haven't heard that. I hope its not Elmwood Cemetery. It overlooks the Broad River, and a lot of Confederate dead are buried there. They may not be too happy that the Confederate flag was removed from the Confederate monument. Just what we need for Halloween.... Ancient ghosts of pissed off rednecks roaming the midlands.
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Such crazy amounts of rain! I hope all the OBEYers are staying safe and keeping their hueys dry. :pray:
I keep seeing headlines proclaiming "worst flood in 1000 years"... am I dense for wondering how in the hell anyone could know that? Did the native americans keep accurate records in the year 1015? Are we looking at rings in the core of 1000+ year old trees? Did Al Gore spill the beans on this factoid in An Inconvenient Truth?
They likely meant it's a '1000 year flood', which is based on indirect statistical analysis and rates the odds of such rainfall falling in a given year and not on a single, specific rain event.
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Are we looking at rings in the core of 1000+ year old trees?
You can in fact do this if such fossils exist.
Other ways include (although they may be anecdotal)other fossil records, sediment layers, and Ocean and Ice cores.
A "1000 year flood" which necro already explained is In the most layman of terms: The probability of SC having a flood of this magnitude is every 1000 years.
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https://www.facebook.com/talyse/media_set?set=a.10153773448553690.1073741861.519163689&type=3
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Wow, that looks rough! Hope you guys stay safe.
We're fortunate over here in this part of Johannesburg we don't get anywhere near that type of weather.
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Jeez that's pretty bad dude D: I wish you (and the people of SC get better)!
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https://www.facebook.com/talyse/media_set?set=a.10153773448553690.1073741861.519163689&type=3
Saw that coffin float pic, thought of Poltergeist, and was like nopenopenope and closed the rest of the album.
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Found this article: http://atlanta.cbslocal.com/2015/10/05/south-carolina-coffins-flooding/
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Found this article: http://atlanta.cbslocal.com/2015/10/05/south-carolina-coffins-flooding/
Ok, that's crazy. Coffins floating around. Damn.
That reminds me of a similar situation that happened a few miles from me:
http://weirdnj.com/stories/hillside-cemetery-spill-madison/
..in 1902.
I live *nearly* next door to several cemeteries. Ancient old ones and modern contemporary ones. I can imagine what it would look like if the flooding was really bad here.
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Fellow South Carolinian here,
I'm in the Upstate, in northern Spartanburg County, so we were largely spared what the midlands had to deal with. All this rain did flood the back room of my basement though. I was hoping we would get a nice clear spell to dry some of this stuff up, but as I look at the radar and see it's still raining across much of the state it looks like that will have to wait.
Man, it really breaks my heart to see what all has happened to Columbia. I've got several friends who live in the area and they have been filling me in on all of the damage. Some are just now able to get out of their neighborhoods, others are still under a boil water advisory. I know Charleston got a heavy dosage too, but the city's location and geography helped deal with dissipating the water more. With Columbia being around so many rivers, that water just had no where else to go, so the poor town was overwhelmed. It is reminding me of seeing images of Hurricane Hugo when it hit the coast when I was a kid.
I hope anyone else here on the board who lives in the midlands, or has family there, learns that they are okay and that their homes missed the worst part. It looks like it's going to take quite a while to repair all of the infrastructure that was damaged. I am happy to see organizations across the state and nation working to donate water and other goods to those affected. After the Charleston shooting and now this, it has been a rough year for poor SC. :cry:
All the best,
- Matt J.
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Yeah, true, you had that shooting a while back, been a really tough year down there!
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Yeah Columbia has been under a boil water advisory all week. Its really caused a lot of havoc at the hospitals. We had no drinkable water at work all week, so the cafeterias been closed, and they've had bottled water available.
The damage is really sad. So many livelihoods ruined. My wife and I volunteered yesterday in Irmo, and helped demo a few homes. It was really sad. House after house had all of their belongings piled up on the street in huge trash piles. We stripped two houses down to the frame.
The homeowners seemed to be in pretty good spirits. Although there was one home where the homeowners hadnt let anyone in. All of there stuff was still inside, and it was obvious the lady was in denial, cause mold was everywhere and she was still trying to salvage things. We finally convinced her to let is clean the house out, but when we started pulling things out a FEMA official said dont bother, the house is being condemned and is gonna be bulldozed. Very sad. Another woman said she didnt need help because she had signed a contract with servpro. So she is going to end up paying thousands for what the volunteers would do for free. A lot of predatory businesses and scammers are taking advantage of people.
Overall though, It really was amazing seeing all of the volunteers from all over the midlands come together to help.
Those not working cleanup were bringing water and Gatorade's to the workers, or fetching/shuttling tools. There was even a family that bought a shit ton of chick fil-a sandwiches, and was riding through the neighborhood passing them out.
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Yeah Columbia has been under a boil water advisory all week. Its really caused a lot of havoc at the hospitals. We had no drinkable water at work all week, so the cafeterias been closed, and they've had bottled water available.
The damage is really sad. So many livelihoods ruined. My wife and I volunteered yesterday in Irmo, and helped demo a few homes. It was really sad. House after house had all of their belongings piled up on the street in huge trash piles. We stripped two houses down to the frame.
The homeowners seemed to be in pretty good spirits. Although there was one home where the homeowners hadnt let anyone in. All of there stuff was still inside, and it was obvious the lady was in denial, cause mold was everywhere and she was still trying to salvage things. We finally convinced her to let is clean the house out, but when we started pulling things out a FEMA official said dont bother, the house is being condemned and is gonna be bulldozed. Very sad. Another woman said she didnt need help because she had signed a contract with servpro. So she is going to end up paying thousands for what the volunteers would do for free. A lot of predatory businesses and scammers are taking advantage of people.
Overall though, It really was amazing seeing all of the volunteers from all over the midlands come together to help.
Those not working cleanup were bringing water and Gatorade's to the workers, or fetching/shuttling tools. There was even a family that bought a shit ton of chick fil-a sandwiches, and was riding through the neighborhood passing them out.
I spent some time doing this once. I do not envy you. But the surprising amount of support is something to be seen, it restores at least some faith in humanity.
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Toymachin78 I am glad to hear you are alright. Both my wife and I are from the area, but now live in NC. Our families are all still there though. Luckily they fared alright. My parents are in Quail Valley subdivision in Irmo. My wife's family is all over the area but all got lucky. My one friend and his parents were not though. They "lived" in the Whitehall subdivision close to where Bush River Road meets St Andrews. His house was condemned and his parents who lived next door had water up to the second story. My brother is now housing my friends kids while they find an apartment for the time being. I didn't even know this shit was happening till late last week. I was in Pittsburgh, PA traveling all week for work. My parents never told me till this past Wednesday. I guess it was the no news is good new mentality. Stay safe man. Glad you're doing alright.
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Toymachin78 I am glad to hear you are alright. Both my wife and I are from the area, but now live in NC. Our families are all still there though. Luckily they fared alright. My parents are in Quail Valley subdivision in Irmo. My wife's family is all over the area but all got lucky. My one friend and his parents were not though. They "lived" in the Whitehall subdivision close to where Bush River Road meets St Andrews. His house was condemned and his parents who lived next door had water up to the second story. My brother is now housing my friends kids while they find an apartment for the time being. I didn't even know this shit was happening till late last week. I was in Pittsburgh, PA traveling all week for work. My parents never told me till this past Wednesday. I guess it was the no news is good new mentality. Stay safe man. Glad you're doing alright.
Thank you for the well wishes. Lexington fared pretty well just a lot of damaged and closed roads.
We were volunteering in the Cold Stream and Pinehurst neighborhoods in Irmo. They were in pretty rough shape too. The downtown and Forest Acres areas received most of the media coverage, so that's where most of the volunteer help went. Volunteers started focusing on Irmo late into the week. Unfortunately, by that time it was too late to save some of the homes because so much mold had already started to grow. Mainly in homes where the homeowners couldn't/didn't clear them out proactively.
Sorry to hear about your friend. There seems to be an abundance of help and support, so I'm sure they'll pull through it.
Does anyone know how much financial assistance FEMA provides disaster victims for house restoration? I've been wondering about this since the majority of homes probably were not insured for flooding, and FEMA has been advertising the financial assistance application portal.
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I'm sorry to hear that some of you have friends and family who have lost their homes or sustained substantial damage due to the flood.
Toymachine78, I did a little digging around regarding your question FEMA assistance. I'm a librarian, so information and reference questions are the name of the game for me. Here's what I found:
It appears FEMA will offer assistance for home repair and restoration, they list some of the things they cover here:
http://www.fema.gov/recovery-directorate/assistance-individuals-and-households-fact-sheet#
Here is a checklist for some of the criteria that needs to be met in order for you to be eligible for housing assistance:
https://www.fema.gov/do-i-qualify-housing-assistance
You can apply for disaster assistance at http://www.disasterassistance.gov/ There is more information and what information you will need to submit when you apply:
https://www.fema.gov/what-information-do-i-need-apply
This is all just scratching the surface on the topic. I could not find anything that gave any monetary compensation information, I suppose it depends on the home's value and the extent of the damage.
I don't know how much this will all helps in your friend's case, but you can pass this information on to him as a starting point. Hopefully there are FEMA representatives already on the ground near the flooded areas who can provide on-sight knowledge to those needing assistance.
Hope this helps!
- Matt J.