scariest night of my life
10-30-2012, 07:31 PM
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scariest night of my life
The storm surge was incredible.
I spent days preparing. Moved all the s2ks and important items to another town. I rode out the storm, wind was not too bad As I am low lying...the water starting coming down the street, and raising up. Got in my wagon and drove it to higher ground.
Walked back to my house, waist deep in water. I had everything I own (tire machine, balancer, equipment) suspended from a steel beam as the surge put my entire property under water. I manned the generator and pumps I set up over the weekend and pulled an all nighter fighting the rising water.
Watching the water rush around both sides of the house, turning my entire neighborhood into a lake.
the work paid off, I managed to come out completely unscathed, and save all my stuff. The fire department drove door to door demanding evauation, but I knew the guy on the truck and he just waved and said good luck as he knew I was not leaving. Preparedness was everything. Pretty much everyone did not take the precautions i did, and they are now without a furnace, hot water, or electricity, or a car. I even told a neighbor their car would not survive in their driveway, and they chose not to listen. their car is now a total loss.
I just got home. I spent the entire day with my generator and pumps helping others. I spent all day cutting trees off power lines of the neighborhood with my rope equipment and chainsaw. Pumped out a few basements, even hot wired some furnaces to get them running and dry them out.
I will continue tomorrow to volunteer...
I spent days preparing. Moved all the s2ks and important items to another town. I rode out the storm, wind was not too bad As I am low lying...the water starting coming down the street, and raising up. Got in my wagon and drove it to higher ground.
Walked back to my house, waist deep in water. I had everything I own (tire machine, balancer, equipment) suspended from a steel beam as the surge put my entire property under water. I manned the generator and pumps I set up over the weekend and pulled an all nighter fighting the rising water.
Watching the water rush around both sides of the house, turning my entire neighborhood into a lake.
the work paid off, I managed to come out completely unscathed, and save all my stuff. The fire department drove door to door demanding evauation, but I knew the guy on the truck and he just waved and said good luck as he knew I was not leaving. Preparedness was everything. Pretty much everyone did not take the precautions i did, and they are now without a furnace, hot water, or electricity, or a car. I even told a neighbor their car would not survive in their driveway, and they chose not to listen. their car is now a total loss.
I just got home. I spent the entire day with my generator and pumps helping others. I spent all day cutting trees off power lines of the neighborhood with my rope equipment and chainsaw. Pumped out a few basements, even hot wired some furnaces to get them running and dry them out.
I will continue tomorrow to volunteer...
10-30-2012, 07:56 PM
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Damn, nowhere near as bad up north here.. One of my rooms in the basement mildly flooded and a tree in the backyard fell but thats about it.
Good on you for helping out the neighborhood
Good on you for helping out the neighborhood
10-31-2012, 04:05 AM
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Good to hear Billman, I was thinking of you...............
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10-31-2012, 04:49 AM
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I almost died 2x from Fri to last night midnight ..:... 120ft oak fell about 5ft to me and my crews left knocking us all on our asses knocking the windbag outta me as another 2 smaller oaks fell right afterwards hitting our trucks.... It was like a f@#king was zone out there as we were rescuing people out there cars and house... I've had like 6hrs me sleep since Fri and now were finally coming in for some rest.... I hope every1 is ok and well... Love you metro.... Gonna try and get a couple hours of sleep b4 the next push....
