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I don't know how it is for you other midwesterners, but things aren't so good around here. We've been having a ton of rain and today the Illinois River is cresting at around 30 feet, it might even hit a record.
None of my family is affected, but lots of people are by this. If you'd keep the folks of central IL in your thoughts and prayers there's going to be quite a few people going home to flooded homes when this is over.
The water is up over the railroad tracks that run alone a state highway. Its pretty amazing. I've never seen it this bad around here, not even in '93 which was a total mess.
Rampage wrote:Oh, you can't play guitar because of your cats? What's next, you don't have sex with your wife because your vagina is acting up?
K-Bizzle wrote:There comes a point in every young mans life when he forsakes the skittles and mountain dew of his childhood for the beer and reese's of manhood.
Been there. Done that. STILL rebuilding. STILL recovering from the 2011 flood
I would not wish a flood on my worst enemy. Those people going thru this now have no idea what they're fixin to be dealing with. It's a long hard road.
Murdoch wrote:Nothing I would do to her would be in the same country as hygenic. If it were, I would be actively devaluing the act, and we can't have that.
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yeah that really sucks. seems like its always something. my parents condo flooded 2 years ago, really was shitty for them. im lucky where i live this is not an issue but on the other side of the state its really bad right now.
Me standin in front of Granny's when the water was comin up
My house when the water was almost at it's highest
Murdoch wrote:Nothing I would do to her would be in the same country as hygenic. If it were, I would be actively devaluing the act, and we can't have that.
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Ugh 100watt, that would SUCK. I've only had to deal with relatively minor basement floodings. A couple times out at my parents when the sump couldn't keep up/died and once at my place when the grey water drain decided it was a good place for a tree to live. Those were annoying enough, I can't imagine full on flooding.
My wife is a Red Cross volunteer (counselor) and she's going to be doing some work in the shelters this weekend. Its actually worse for some of the smaller river towns. Peoria & East Peoria have been able to prepare pretty good. I mean, as good as you can for millions of gallons of river water.
Rampage wrote:Oh, you can't play guitar because of your cats? What's next, you don't have sex with your wife because your vagina is acting up?
K-Bizzle wrote:There comes a point in every young mans life when he forsakes the skittles and mountain dew of his childhood for the beer and reese's of manhood.
Yeah. It sucks to deal with. I am VERY thankful for people like your wife who volunteer for the Red Cross. Every little bit helps.
On a positive note, even with all I lost, it restored my faith in humanity.
Murdoch wrote:Nothing I would do to her would be in the same country as hygenic. If it were, I would be actively devaluing the act, and we can't have that.
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Rampage wrote:Oh, you can't play guitar because of your cats? What's next, you don't have sex with your wife because your vagina is acting up?
K-Bizzle wrote:There comes a point in every young mans life when he forsakes the skittles and mountain dew of his childhood for the beer and reese's of manhood.
I know some areas were pretty bad up here. Luckily my neighborhood was not one of those areas.
I was wondering how it was down by you last week. We got lucky, at least in the part of the northern burbs I'm in. It's still pretty wild in certain place. I guess 5" of rain in 15 or so hours will do that.
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It's been raining pretty consistently here for about 3 weeks. Thankfully there's enough lakes here (I live right on the edge of the northern part of Lake Winnebago) and that helps give the water a place to go for awhile.
Mojo dude. Flooding problems are insanely expensive to fix. Crazy that last year we had drought problems. 0.o
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I work in the river industry. We're kinda SOL now, BC the upper Miss is closed, so theres no barges coming up off the upper, and not much coming off the lower. We usually run 8-10 boats. We've got 3 running. It sucks.
Murdoch wrote:Nothing I would do to her would be in the same country as hygenic. If it were, I would be actively devaluing the act, and we can't have that.
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Steveijobzz wrote:It's been raining pretty consistently here for about 3 weeks. Thankfully there's enough lakes here (I live right on the edge of the northern part of Lake Winnebago) and that helps give the water a place to go for awhile.
Mojo dude. Flooding problems are insanely expensive to fix. Crazy that last year we had drought problems. 0.o
Yeah, I'm thinking it won't rain a drop from June to September now at this rate.
100 watt wrote:I work in the river industry. We're kinda SOL now, BC the upper Miss is closed, so theres no barges coming up off the upper, and not much coming off the lower. We usually run 8-10 boats. We've got 3 running. It sucks.
Awww dude, that doubly sucks for you. Yeah, the Illinois is closed for a good section of it. Just a mess. I'm thankful I live on relatively high ground for around here.
Rampage wrote:Oh, you can't play guitar because of your cats? What's next, you don't have sex with your wife because your vagina is acting up?
K-Bizzle wrote:There comes a point in every young mans life when he forsakes the skittles and mountain dew of his childhood for the beer and reese's of manhood.
glenecho wrote:Well don't y'all worry about me...I'm ok!
hey there!!! welcome dude, good to see you here
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Yeah, one of my best friends lives in Ft. Wayne (he's actually a co-worker of Loop) and posted FB pics of himself having rescued everything from his basement studio. Luckily they got to it quickly, before any of the guitars, drums, or rack gear got ruined.
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glenecho wrote:Well don't y'all worry about me...I'm ok!
Glad to hear that and welcome man!
benjamin801 wrote:Yeah, one of my best friends lives in Ft. Wayne (he's actually a co-worker of Loop) and posted FB pics of himself having rescued everything from his basement studio. Luckily they got to it quickly, before any of the guitars, drums, or rack gear got ruined.
Awww, that sucks dude. Glad they rescued the gear, but cleanup will still suck.
Rampage wrote:Oh, you can't play guitar because of your cats? What's next, you don't have sex with your wife because your vagina is acting up?
K-Bizzle wrote:There comes a point in every young mans life when he forsakes the skittles and mountain dew of his childhood for the beer and reese's of manhood.
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