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mrkelley23 · #1 Post by **mrkelley23** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 8:23 am

No, not snow. And not Spring Break. Our county Emergency Management Agency declared a state of emergency last night because of the large scale flooding going on, especially down in the Ohio River bottoms. Some pretty scary stuff going on right now. We've got a good levee system (Thanks to FDR and the WPA after the '37 Flood) and the river's not really threatening the town, but the creeks and other tributaries are dangerously swollen, and many roads are shut down.

So let's see how many posts I can put up today! Ha!

TheCalvinator24 · #2 Post by **TheCalvinator24** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 8:32 am

The East Fork of the Trinity River runs across my route to work. It was higher today than I have ever seen it. We got pounded with rain yesterday.

tlynn78 · #3 Post by **tlynn78** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 8:33 am

Be safe.

t.

PlacentiaSoccerMom · #4 Post by **PlacentiaSoccerMom** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 8:39 am

I hope that you stay dry and safe.

peacock2121 · #5 Post by **peacock2121** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 8:43 am

It has been my experience that the people who get hit hard by the damages from flooding are the people who can least afford to get damaged.

May they all find a way to first survive and then repair and then thrive.

Bob Juch · #6 Post by **Bob Juch** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 8:57 am

We already had flooding on the roads I take to work this morning. We're supposed to have rain through sometime tomorrow.

There's a town near here called Bound Brook which in on a stream called Bound Brook (duh!). Moderate rain causes it to become unbound. I expect this storm to cause some serious flooding. Fortunately I don't need to go there.

kayrharris · #7 Post by **kayrharris** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 9:05 am

Everyone will be mad at their insurance companies since flood damage is excluded. You have to have a separate flood policy. Very few people have it. It's not expensive at all.

I do hope everyone is OK. I have a lot of family in Louisville, which is right in the middle of all this mess. They do have a good flood wall, but that won't keep some areas from flash floods and damage.

We're expecting over an inch of rain today, which is a lot for this area. We need it for sure. It should move on out and I'm still looking for my nice weekend weather.

mrkelley23 · #8 Post by **mrkelley23** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 9:16 am

Flood insurance varies widely in cost, I think, depending on where you are in the country. It also apparently depends heavily on outdated maps. When we built our house in 2000, we paid $600 for a re-survey of our lot to show that it had been elevated enough to take it out of the flood plain. The work had actually been done decades earlier, but since the maps are updated very sporadically, it was either pay the 600 or pay approximately 1000 bucks a year more in flood insurance.

I haven't been out yet, but it looks okay around here for now.

MarleysGh0st · #9 Post by **MarleysGh0st** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 9:19 am

Bob Juch wrote: There's a town near here called Bound Brook which in on a stream called Bound Brook (duh!). Moderate rain causes it to become unbound. I expect this storm to cause some serious flooding. Fortunately I don't need to go there.

Yeah. What was the hurricane that hit the area back around '73? Andrea? I remember that we took a ride through Bound Brook after that to gape at the mud stains several feet up the walls of all the buildings.

Bob Juch · #10 Post by **Bob Juch** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 9:22 am

MarleysGh0st wrote:
Bob Juch wrote: There's a town near here called Bound Brook which in on a stream called Bound Brook (duh!). Moderate rain causes it to become unbound. I expect this storm to cause some serious flooding. Fortunately I don't need to go there.
Yeah. What was the hurricane that hit the area back around '73? Andrea? I remember that we took a ride through Bound Brook after that to gape at the mud stains several feet up the walls of all the buildings.

Sounds like they haven't fixed anything since then.