Good On Them

Griff · 09-25-2011, 03:35 PM

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.

glatt · 09-25-2011, 05:02 PM

And the good PR can't hurt either.

zippyt · 09-25-2011, 05:28 PM

Yeah No doubt

Griff · 09-25-2011, 06:41 PM

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.

Clodfobble · 09-25-2011, 08:53 PM

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?

Spexxvet · 09-26-2011, 08:10 AM

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.

Griff · 09-26-2011, 05:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Clodfobble

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?

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.

glatt · 09-27-2011, 07:49 AM

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

Gravdigr · 09-27-2011, 12:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Griff

...shady businessman...

Handy on a hot day though.

infinite monkey · 09-27-2011, 12:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Gravdigr

Handy on a hot day though.

Griff · 09-27-2011, 08:31 PM

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Originally Posted by glatt

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

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.

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Originally Posted by Gravdigr

Handy on a hot day though.

*chortle*

glatt · 09-27-2011, 09:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Griff

The insurance company told my sister not to go in

Stupid insurance company.

classicman · 09-27-2011, 09:06 PM

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.

Lamplighter · 10-26-2011, 07:51 PM

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

Quote:

A muddy stew of black silt and water roared through a hole that was
breached Wednesday in a nearly century-old dam in Washington's south Cascades,
marking another step in ongoing efforts to restore habitat for threatened
and endangered fish in the Pacific Northwest.

Removal of the dam opens up at least 33 miles of habitat for steelhead.
Habitat for tule fall chinook will double.
In recent weeks, work crews created a tunnel 18 feet wide and 13 feet tall
in the base of the dam to allow water and sediment to pass through
from the reservoir behind the dam once it is breached.
Over the years, a five-story wedge of silt has collected in 92-acre Northwestern Lake,
a popular recreation spot for boaters and the dozens of cabin leaseholders on the water's edge.

This pic was taken just after the dam was breached and water was surging downriver.

Good on them...

SamIam · 10-26-2011, 08:32 PM

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

09-25-2011, 03:35 PM	#1
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	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. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

09-25-2011, 05:28 PM	#3
zippyt LONG LIVE KING ZIPPY! per Feetz Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Arkansas Posts: 7,661	Yeah No doubt __________________ "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. " Brother Dave Gardner

09-25-2011, 06:41 PM	#4
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	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. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

09-25-2011, 08:53 PM	#5
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	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? __________________ My book My other book My spirit animal

09-26-2011, 08:10 AM	#6
Spexxvet Makes some feel uncomfortable Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 10,346	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. __________________ "I'm certainly free, nay compelled, to spread the gospel of Spex. " - xoxoxoBruce

09-25-2011, 05:02 PM	#2
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	And the good PR can't hurt either.

09-27-2011, 07:49 AM	#8
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	I missed the part about your sister's place being so damaged. I'm sorry to hear about that.

09-27-2011, 09:06 PM	#13
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	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. __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

10-26-2011, 08:32 PM	#15
SamIam Registered User Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Not here Posts: 2,655	Now, THAT's the kind of stuff I like to see. Swim, little fishies, swim! And damn all dams.

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