area flooding

MsSparkie · 07-03-2006, 09:56 AM

Scroll down the page....lots of steamy weather, tornados too....

http://wwwa.accuweather.com/adcbin/p...unity_blog.asp

Trilby · 07-03-2006, 10:25 AM

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Originally Posted by MsSparkie

...lots of steamy weather, tornados too....

O. M. G. it is soooo freakin' hot and humid here in the Miami Valley that you can't even go outside unless you are right next to the pool. It's misreable! This weather forces a person indoors. It's just too hot.

07-08-2006, 12:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Brianna

O. M. G. it is soooo freakin' hot and humid here in the Miami Valley that you can't even go outside unless you are right next to the pool. It's misreable! This weather forces a person indoors. It's just too hot.

You ain't lyin', here inland it is nasty with no sea breeze.

Griff · 07-09-2006, 09:25 AM

This mornings paper has the so-called flood plains mapped. People are asking the right questions, a new map is needed. An example is Lourdes Hospital which was supposed to be on the high end of the 500 year flood plain and was inundated. Lots of homes on morgages were above the known flood plain and were not required to have flood insurance. Bottom line, everyone was working with bad information.

richlevy · 07-09-2006, 10:26 AM

All I can say for sure is that the elevation listed on Google for my house is between 180 and 190 feet above sea level. The bottom of my street is about 160 feet. There is almost 0 percent chance of any amount of standing water flooding my house.

There is, however, an issue with runoff and drainage. When they built my development, they were pretty careful with landscaping design. Unfortunately, they began building above me and I got a lesson in design when they didn't put up a silt fence before they started and a severe rain took off the few inches of the already thin topsoil off of the hill in my backyard.

The runoff is designed to run away from my house and in the alley between my house and my neighbors to the street. The winter before last, due to a design flaw, it pooled near my back steps and caused problems. The builder had to excavate and redesign the terrain to build up the embankment between the alley and my house.

That being said, everything is good now and I sit well above sea level, away or above any creeks which can flood, tucked in a slight valley to discourage tornadoes and hurricanes, and in one of the more geographically dead states on the east coast.

Except for the fact that I am not too far from chemical plants, I have a pretty safe environment. The biggest disaster I have to worry about is my homeowners association.

xoxoxoBruce · 07-09-2006, 02:03 PM

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The biggest disaster I have to worry about is my homeowners association.

Did you have to get approval for your red,white & blue mailbox?

About 6 months after I bought my house the Army Corps of Engineers decided I'm on a 100 year flood plain.

glatt · 07-19-2006, 08:02 AM

This thread is kind of old news now, but I'm going to add to it anyway. I've been away for two weeks or so on vacation, and just recently was able to organize some of my pictures. I went to NE Pennsylvania, not so far from Scranton, where my family has a cottage on a lake.

This first group of pictures was taken by my Dad on I-81 at Great Bend, PA. This was during the height of the flooding. They temporarily closed the highway so a Coast Guard rescue helicopter could use it for landings while doing rescue work. He was lucky enough to be just a few cars back from the action.

http://static.flickr.com/68/193044067_8bee54a79a_b.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/47/193044068_0ac8457bd3_b.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/57/193044069_4e039237ba_b.jpg

07-03-2006, 09:56 AM	#1
MsSparkie Curious Sagittarius Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 302	Scroll down the page....lots of steamy weather, tornados too.... http://wwwa.accuweather.com/adcbin/p...unity_blog.asp __________________ ~There is a forest in an acorn......

07-09-2006, 09:25 AM	#4
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	This mornings paper has the so-called flood plains mapped. People are asking the right questions, a new map is needed. An example is Lourdes Hospital which was supposed to be on the high end of the 500 year flood plain and was inundated. Lots of homes on morgages were above the known flood plain and were not required to have flood insurance. Bottom line, everyone was working with bad information. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

07-09-2006, 10:26 AM	#5
richlevy King Of Wishful Thinking Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Philadelphia Suburbs Posts: 6,669	All I can say for sure is that the elevation listed on Google for my house is between 180 and 190 feet above sea level. The bottom of my street is about 160 feet. There is almost 0 percent chance of any amount of standing water flooding my house. There is, however, an issue with runoff and drainage. When they built my development, they were pretty careful with landscaping design. Unfortunately, they began building above me and I got a lesson in design when they didn't put up a silt fence before they started and a severe rain took off the few inches of the already thin topsoil off of the hill in my backyard. The runoff is designed to run away from my house and in the alley between my house and my neighbors to the street. The winter before last, due to a design flaw, it pooled near my back steps and caused problems. The builder had to excavate and redesign the terrain to build up the embankment between the alley and my house. That being said, everything is good now and I sit well above sea level, away or above any creeks which can flood, tucked in a slight valley to discourage tornadoes and hurricanes, and in one of the more geographically dead states on the east coast. Except for the fact that I am not too far from chemical plants, I have a pretty safe environment. The biggest disaster I have to worry about is my homeowners association. __________________ Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE! I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama

07-19-2006, 08:02 AM	#7
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	This thread is kind of old news now, but I'm going to add to it anyway. I've been away for two weeks or so on vacation, and just recently was able to organize some of my pictures. I went to NE Pennsylvania, not so far from Scranton, where my family has a cottage on a lake. This first group of pictures was taken by my Dad on I-81 at Great Bend, PA. This was during the height of the flooding. They temporarily closed the highway so a Coast Guard rescue helicopter could use it for landings while doing rescue work. He was lucky enough to be just a few cars back from the action. http://static.flickr.com/68/193044067_8bee54a79a_b.jpg http://static.flickr.com/47/193044068_0ac8457bd3_b.jpg http://static.flickr.com/57/193044069_4e039237ba_b.jpg

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