Gaston's wrath

[General Lee 01]

14" rain in 6 hours or less causes this.

 

 

Downtown Richmond was devastated. Estimated costs for Downtown Richmond ALONE is in the $15 Million range.

 

The pics here in this first post were taken a block from my house. In the first shot looking down on the flooded road I am actually standing at the intersection of the main highway and my Street.

 

Under "normal Conditions" this is a Marshy Swamp land (you could kinda compare it to the Everglades, except minus the gators), that rarely ever sees water over the brush, The water has NEVER gone over the road before.

 

The picture with the Blue "No Tresspassing sign" is a roadway that leads to the Power Sub-Station that delivers power to my house. Thanks to the Sub Station being literally under water, I was without power Until Wednesday.

[SxViper]

14" rain in 6 hours or less causes this.

 

 

Downtown Richmond was devastated. Estimated costs  for Downtown Richmond ALONE is in the $15 Million range.

 

The pics here in this first post were taken a block from my house. In the first shot looking down on the flooded road I am actually standing at the intersection of the main highway and my Street.

 

Under "normal Conditions" this is a Marshy Swamp land (you could kinda compare it to the Everglades, except minus the gators), that rarely ever sees water over the brush, The water has NEVER gone over the road before.

 

The picture with the Blue "No Tresspassing sign" is a roadway that leads to the Power Sub-Station that delivers power to my house. Thanks to the Sub Station being literally under water, I was without power Until Wednesday.

 

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Things like this make it nice to live in the northeast... No hurricans or any of that stuff up here... Well by the time they get here the are pretty weak. Ya we get our snow but atleast I can do something with it, snowmobile and can shovel it out of the way. Flooding like that sucks. Hope you guys dry out soon and don't get this next one... I will be down that way in a month to vist Bush Gardens...

[99silveradoz71]

Yep, I've always appreciated the fairly secure conditions in Ohio. We run the chance of some tornados or mild flooding, but nothing as frequent as extreme as the South or plain states get. We do get plenty of snow, but as noted, I can deal with that.

[General Lee 01]

More pics...

 

 

I thought you guys that were around last year for my pic in-front of the burnt down Shoney's might get a kick out of the 1st pic here. Seems like it's starting to be a september Trend.

 

The 2nd pic is from the same area, it's probably hard to tell in the pic, but that "rut" is 3 feet deep. Imagine going 60mph on the highway (The speed limit on that stretch of road I'm standing on is 55mph, that's a 6 lane highway BTW), having to make an emergency shoulder stop into THAT.

 

 

The last 2 were taken from downtown Richmond. about 12 hours after the storm ended. It's amazing to see the cars just thrown around like that. You would've thought a tornado had come through with all the stuff damaged

[budhayes3]

Whoa , that's something else. Don't see that up here in Jersey. I've been down there a couple times, my friend's mom used to live in Virginia Beach and we'd stay at her place and vacation and stuff. Had to leave a day early once because a hurricane was on it's way. Chesepeak bay was kickin fierce as we drove over the bridge.

[SnakeEyeSS]

dang, that stink. and 70 days of 'cane season left, with a possible 3 more to come in the next 2-3 weeks. they said cirrently, 1995 still hol;ds the "most in a year" records, but they plan on that being shattered by the end of the year.