rain rain, go away!

toolman · 08-19-2007, 11:09 PM

Man this sucks, I'm several hundred miles from the coast, but this storm is pounding us. I live along a creek that is around 30 ft deep, 40 ft across, and normally dry. Our neighborhood was just minutes from a mandatory evacuation due to flooding. Several other areas around us had flood damage and one woman was killed when her car got washed away in a flash flood. I'm in Oklahoma City right now and my wife flew up to spend yesterday and today with me, so neither of us was home to do anything if it had flooded our place. I'm thanking God that it didn't happen and praying for those that got hit.

troy2000 · 08-19-2007, 11:12 PM

Hang in there, toolman. Do you have that lovely Oklahoma mud in your area that sticks to your feet when you walk, until you're teetering on clay stilts?

Lng Rng · 08-19-2007, 11:24 PM

Where I am at in Minnesota, we were drought all summer, now we are getting peed on royally. A few people in Winona MN unfourtantaly died, due to flash flooding.

toolman · 08-20-2007, 12:22 AM

Hey Troy, ours isn't as bad as Oklahomas' mud but it's about the same color. I found some pics here. If you look at the second gallery down, the building just to the left of the blue-roofed bldg. in the center is my local gunshop(in the water right where the dry area ends). The tan bldg. w\light-colored roof on the far left at the intersection of the two streets is our apt. bldg. Abilene neighborhoods swamped as creeks overflow : Local News : Abilene Reporter-News

alan c. · 08-20-2007, 04:39 AM

I feel for you toolman. We are from one extreme to another. Drought then flood.

08-19-2007, 11:09 PM	#1
toolman Mr. Fixit Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: abilene,tx Posts: 5,363 Trader Rating: (0)	rain rain, go away! Man this sucks, I'm several hundred miles from the coast, but this storm is pounding us. I live along a creek that is around 30 ft deep, 40 ft across, and normally dry. Our neighborhood was just minutes from a mandatory evacuation due to flooding. Several other areas around us had flood damage and one woman was killed when her car got washed away in a flash flood. I'm in Oklahoma City right now and my wife flew up to spend yesterday and today with me, so neither of us was home to do anything if it had flooded our place. I'm thanking God that it didn't happen and praying for those that got hit. __________________ Don't be messin' with my gun!

08-19-2007, 11:12 PM	#2
troy2000 Resident Armed Liberal Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Southern California Posts: 9,140 Trader Rating: (0)	Hang in there, toolman. Do you have that lovely Oklahoma mud in your area that sticks to your feet when you walk, until you're teetering on clay stilts? __________________ If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. -Anatole France

08-20-2007, 12:22 AM	#4
toolman Mr. Fixit Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: abilene,tx Posts: 5,363 Trader Rating: (0)	Hey Troy, ours isn't as bad as Oklahomas' mud but it's about the same color. I found some pics here. If you look at the second gallery down, the building just to the left of the blue-roofed bldg. in the center is my local gunshop(in the water right where the dry area ends). The tan bldg. w\light-colored roof on the far left at the intersection of the two streets is our apt. bldg. Abilene neighborhoods swamped as creeks overflow : Local News : Abilene Reporter-News __________________ Don't be messin' with my gun! Last edited by toolman; 08-20-2007 at 12:25 AM.

08-20-2007, 04:39 AM	#5
alan c. Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Pasadena,Tejas - also known as Texas Posts: 3,757 Trader Rating: (0)	I feel for you toolman. We are from one extreme to another. Drought then flood. __________________ God Bless. From Tejas -- formerly known as Texas.

08-19-2007, 11:24 PM	#3
Lng Rng Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Minnesota Posts: 944 Trader Rating: (0)	Where I am at in Minnesota, we were drought all summer, now we are getting peed on royally. A few people in Winona MN unfourtantaly died, due to flash flooding.