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See if your air mattress will float you down the street. If it's dark and gloomy out, be sure you have running lights!
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Drag a line!
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Glatt, the water comes in your back door? Down some steps if I recall? Yes. I just found the video. No wonder I had such a specific mental image.
Anyway.... Maybe get a big cat litter box, to collect the water, run some plastic sheeting from the edge of the lowest step that would be above the rim of the box.... Get a fast sump pump, some 1.25" pvc or whatever fits, a one way valve and some of that purple glue and elbows and rig a pipe to blow the water off and away. |
Or, you could always just torch the house for the insurance money and walk away.
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Park a duck boat across your backyard. It'll sink in the storm and then deflect water away from the house.
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Thinking about a son and daughter-in-law not far from glatt and facing the same issues. Other relatives in Virginia Beach are hunkering down. A pilot whom I saw for a physical today mentioned that his family were on the road from SC and traveling at walking pace or less. People are moving inland, but the roads are full.
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I'm ready I have a newspaper and a James Michener book. Everyone is leaving and my dealer had a sale so I am fortified.
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Here in Raleigh we're pretty much ready for Flo's arrival - water and gas are getting hard to find right now. We're forecast for 10-12 inches of rain or 10-15 depending on where you read. I'm more concerned about the trees around us than anything else.
Bbro - if you are in Raleigh - hollar if you need anything! |
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At noon on 9-11 the high tide at Hatteras Light showed an 18 inch(46cm) increase from storm surge, 3 days before the storm should hit.
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This morning's forecast has it really missing me and staying further south. Maybe 2 inches of rain. Our house will be fine.
I feel bad for the Carolinas. |
This is going to be ugly.
Those manure lagoons are really bad news. They're a known problem created by industrial scale agriculture and crappy regulation. |
@sexobon - the only thing that has me worried is flooding. I live in a basement apartment. So the floating in an air mattress might work! I have 2 headlamps! One for front and one for back, I'm good to go :rolleyes:
@Griff - I've got the camp stoves and the camp pots out! I'll probably put the air mattress and sleeping bag in the car in case I need to relocate to someone's house. (see flooding worry above) @Dagney - I am in Raleigh. Near the airport in Brier Creek. I will let you know, thanks. I've got water, batteries, light for power outages, food, full tank of gas. Even if the power and water go, I'm good. Nevermind - I don't have a friend to stay with if I flood. I'll let you know, thanks. |
You guyz, Mom (Katkeeper) is going to drive from Murphy NC to Cary NC on Sunday afternoon. To visit friends there.
Mom is 85 but her Subaru is 4 wheel drive you see The alternative is to just head home to Pennsylvania on I-81 With the new track she is Cary-bound for sure I hope the roads are still passable |
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