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Anyone else having flooding?

Started by Dale Roberts,

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Pirate

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last friday the lexington weather man was on for 4 hours straight doing road by road Doppler. Was a pain in the butt as I missed smallville.

The nerve of him.

 

He's a blowhard who does anything possible to be on tv. Commercial interruptions is fine but every time a big blow comes through, he's on. None of the other affiliates in the area were on continuously going street by street.

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VintageComics

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We just had 65 MPH winds and thunderstorms blow through and I think there might be Tornado warnings around Toronto area.

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I had to cancel our vacation. My husband took off the week. We were packed up and ready to go. We had stayed overnight at a local casino to be sure we were leaving rested etc.

 

Then I happened to call our hotel we were going to stay in in Metropolis IL. They were closed because of flood waters ..indefinitely..

 

So we had to go back home. I am glad I checked the hotel before we drove all the way to Metropolis. I would have been very angry to have gotten there and found it closed..they didn't call to tell me our reservations had been canceled or anything.

 

My Mom is pretty bummed out. We just didn't want to be driving right into the weather problems area..

 

Hope the boardies in that area are high and dry..

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Our one dog is scared of thunderstorms. When they hit she whimpers and barks throughout the whole storm. With the Cincinnati region getting hit night after night I have not had a good nights sleep in several weeks. It is getting ridiculous.

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Right now in my front yard, I have about 40 yards of water all the way across the front (probably 100 yards long or so), and about 8 -9" of water on top of a 30 -35 yard long section of my driveway. Not close to the house yet, but tons of water, and I may be stuck here if the water keeps coming up.

 

I do have a 4 wheel drive Ford F-150, so as long as it doesn't come up another foot, I should be okay. :wishluck:

 

Otherwise.....I have a boat :jokealert:

 

You & the family be safe, Dale.

 

 

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Mr 9.8

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I always wonder about big collections getting caught in massive floods and tsunamis. How the industry looses inventory and yet nobody knows it. How many books lost in Katrina, how about recently in Japan?

 

I heard from a good source that someone was storing a very valuable golden age Ped. collection in the WTC when they went down.

 

WTC?
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I always wonder about big collections getting caught in massive floods and tsunamis. How the industry looses inventory and yet nobody knows it. How many books lost in Katrina, how about recently in Japan?

 

I heard from a good source that someone was storing a very valuable golden age Ped. collection in the WTC when they went down.

 

WTC?

 

World Trace Center during 9/11.

 

 

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I always wonder about big collections getting caught in massive floods and tsunamis. How the industry looses inventory and yet nobody knows it. How many books lost in Katrina, how about recently in Japan?

 

I lost a little over half my collection in Katrina. A run of Wonder Comics 13-20 and near complete run of Adventures into Weird Worlds as well as well as many, many long boxes. Although comics were pretty low in the grand scheme of things, it just added misery to heartache to toss armloads of 80 Page Giants, 100 Page Giants and hundreds of high-grade bronze books into the trashpile. Especially since just a few days before they were beautiful, collectible books.

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I think the flooding here will be worse then 97 which was really bad. I have had Tornadoes go 10 miles north, east, west, and south of my house in the Evansville area in the last week.

 

The rain was suppossed to stop this afternoon and its still pouring. Roads are shut down and people are sand bagging left and right. Thank God my house is on nice elevated ground. I am just hoping my sump pump doesnt burn up because its working round the clock currently.

 

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I always wonder about big collections getting caught in massive floods and tsunamis. How the industry looses inventory and yet nobody knows it. How many books lost in Katrina, how about recently in Japan?

 

I lost a little over half my collection in Katrina. A run of Wonder Comics 13-20 and near complete run of Adventures into Weird Worlds as well as well as many, many long boxes. Although comics were pretty low in the grand scheme of things, it just added misery to heartache to toss armloads of 80 Page Giants, 100 Page Giants and hundreds of high-grade bronze books into the trashpile. Especially since just a few days before they were beautiful, collectible books.

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Mr 9.8

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I always wonder about big collections getting caught in massive floods and tsunamis. How the industry looses inventory and yet nobody knows it. How many books lost in Katrina, how about recently in Japan?

 

I heard from a good source that someone was storing a very valuable golden age Ped. collection in the WTC when they went down.

 

WTC?

 

World Trace Center during 9/11.

 

:(

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Right now in my front yard, I have about 40 yards of water all the way across the front (probably 100 yards long or so), and about 8 -9" of water on top of a 30 -35 yard long section of my driveway. Not close to the house yet, but tons of water, and I may be stuck here if the water keeps coming up.

 

I do have a 4 wheel drive Ford F-150, so as long as it doesn't come up another foot, I should be okay. :wishluck:

 

Otherwise.....I have a boat :jokealert:

 

We're having the same problem in Rochester, NY. Our basement just flooded for the first time ever. And not just a little either, probably well in excess of 1000 gallons of water. We had a bunch of comics, toys, and other stuff completely ruined. (And of course for some reason water is the one thing not covered by home owners insurance (shrug) )

 

This is usually not an issue where we live and our basement has never had water in it before so not sure what is going on with all the rain everywhere..

 

 

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asteroid-comix

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Right now in my front yard, I have about 40 yards of water all the way across the front (probably 100 yards long or so), and about 8 -9" of water on top of a 30 -35 yard long section of my driveway. Not close to the house yet, but tons of water, and I may be stuck here if the water keeps coming up.

 

I do have a 4 wheel drive Ford F-150, so as long as it doesn't come up another foot, I should be okay. :wishluck:

 

Otherwise.....I have a boat :jokealert:

The kids down the road were actually out in a small fishing boat in their front yard yesterday. We've got a lot of water on the ground just north of Columbus. Expecting more :cry:
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Wally's Comics

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God must be laughing because Houston is in the middle of the biggest drought in the last 100 years. We're usually the ones flooding.

 

be careful what you wish for. In Eastern NC back in 1999 a lot of the farmers were rocked

by a bad drought and a double whammy of hurricanes Dennis (with 19 inches of rain) then Floyd

(with 17 inches of rain) within a few weeks crushed us. In both of these storms the rain fell so

fast that the hard sun baked soil couldn't absorb it.

 

It literally turned the little town I was in (Greenville, NC) into an island.

 

I was lucky and lived on high ground. To this day I have never seen a whole airport

under water. The Tar River swallowed it!

 

I will never look at a drought the same way.

 

 

:(

 

 

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I'm sorry to hear about all of the flooding.

 

And of course for some reason water is the one thing not covered by home owners insurance

Federal Flood Insurance is cheaper than what the commercial insurance companies will offer so they don't. Many homeowner insurance companies will coordinate & bill for the Federal program, which is how I signed up for it.

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God must be laughing because Houston is in the middle of the biggest drought in the last 100 years. We're usually the ones flooding.

 

be careful what you wish for. In Eastern NC back in 1999 a lot of the farmers were rocked

by a bad drought and a double whammy of hurricanes Dennis (with 19 inches of rain) then Floyd

(with 17 inches of rain) within a few weeks crushed us. In both of these storms the rain fell so

fast that the hard sun baked soil couldn't absorb it.

 

It literally turned the little town I was in (Greenville, NC) into an island.

 

I was lucky and lived on high ground. To this day I have never seen a whole airport

under water. The Tar River swallowed it!

 

I will never look at a drought the same way.

 

 

:(

 

Been there...Hurricane Ike was 2008.

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