Good On Them
 

My sister's neighborhood didn't handle the flooding. She is waiting on her insurance carrier, but it looks like a knock down. In the midst of the property disaster, a bunch of shale gas water trucks showed up and pumped the water out of all the basements in the neighborhood. I don't know which company sent them but thank you from the folks in Twin Orchards.

And the good PR can't hurt either.

Yeah No doubt

They definitely got a PR boost, nobody else had the truck capacity to get it done so they're getting big love for stepping up.

Wow, good for them!

So sorry to hear about your sister's place. Did they have time to get the important papers and whatnot out before the water came too high?

Wow! I'm impressed. You rarely see a business do something that doesn't involve putting money in their own pockets. Well done by them.

Yeah, just. The harder part was getting the old man a couple doors down to leave his house. I was talking to one of their neighbors who is a fireman. He got a little stress relief a couple days into it when a local shady businessman tried to torch a building he's been trying to sell for a couple years. The first responder happened to be a fire investigator and saw a trail of flames up the steps. The neighbor got to tear into the building with some big-ass hydraulic apparatus which kinda made his day.

I missed the part about your sister's place being so damaged. I'm sorry to hear about that.

Handy on a hot day though.

:lol2:

I don't think I mentioned it before. The insurance situation still isn't resolved though so we still don't know what is going to happen. Their neighbors let their insurance lapse so they went in and tore the place apart as early as they could. The insurance company told my sister not to go in so the house is much worse than the neighbors beyond the foundation problem. BiL said the black mold was already 2.5 to 3 ft above the waterline, nasty stuff. People are going to get very sick cleaning these houses.

*chortle*

Stupid insurance company.

Yes and no glatt.
Some people go in and tear the place up to get MORE money, others remove valuables and are compensated unjustly for things that were not ruined. Still more are hurt going into homes that are unsafe costing MORE money.
The above are not mutually exclusive.

Not at all related to the OP, but I liked the thread's title.

Today, another dam was purposely breached to improve the habitat of salmon in the Pacific Northwest.
The White Salmon River empties into the Columbia just upstream of PDX.
The Conuit Dam stands about 12 stories high, and will be removed over the next 9-10 months

KATU.com
October 26,2011
Crews breach Condit Dam
This pic was taken just after the dam was breached and water was surging downriver.

Good on them...

Now, THAT's the kind of stuff I like to see. Swim, little fishies, swim! And damn all dams.