My Neighborhood is Flooded

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I got some pics of what little area I could get to. Most of my neighborhood is blocked off by cops.
Here's an aerial view of my neighbor hood, you can't see my house because I'm on the hill.
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Usually this fence extends far past that but it's all underwater.
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The yard beside the last one.
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Their swimming pool is underwater!
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View across the enlarged river, there were lots of boats/canoes.
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Taken from this kid JD's house. This street isn't very bad but it still sucks because the sidewalk was underwater.
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Culd-de-sac not so good!
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Yeah...that's going to suck to mow.
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Lawl, watered lawn!
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Perpendicular street, blocked by cops. I might go out their at night when they're probably gone/sleeping to get pics of the small damn that keeps the 2 rivers separated.
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Same street.
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I got dem feetz.
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Guess he decided to give his Mustangs a fresh break.
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El Jarretto
Nope. I wish I had a Beetle even more than I used too. I could drive it into the water and boom it floats and I can push it through the streets.:lol: Pull out an oar and start paddling!
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Been flipping through vintage MAD mags have we?

EDIT: Flooded streets =/= fishies
 
Where do you live? Because it seems like everywhere is flooding lately. Or maybe it's because it happened to my hometown, so now I notice it more..

But it happened on the Central Coast NSW in Australia. Then Famine's hometown got flooded. Both times it killed multiple people. I think Danachronism was talking about crazy weather where he lives, as well.

Sheesh. We've touched a nerve somewhere..
 
I live in Texas and this is the most rain I've ever heard of getting here. We reached the hundred year flood mark but I guess it ain't as bad as some places.
 
No floods here in Plano, but we have gotten some big rain, and a couple curb lanes have turned into rivers during some of the harder storms. It is funny though driving down the highway, and suddenly finding water hit your windsheild after going under an over pass.

"Waterfall OMGZ!"
 
Newark in the UK was flooded a few days ago too. I've got some relatives there, and quite a few GTP members live around that area I think. And the recent UKGTP meet-ups have been held there.
 
In Baltimore on Thurs. it started raining pretty hard around 11:20 or so.

I just happened to be at the Yankee/Orioles game. :grumpy:

The entire first row was about 2" of water, carrying all kinds of garbage with it. :dopey:

When it dropped down from the upper sections, it WAS a waterfall, quite loud too.
 
Jondot
Newark in the UK was flooded a few days ago too. I've got some relatives there, and quite a few GTP members live around that area I think. And the recent UKGTP meet-ups have been held there.
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the only real part of newark thats flooded is where the travellers reside, right next to the river. Unfortunately, this means they've been moved to the land behind my house :grumpy:

The back of my house and my neighbours keeps flooding to the point where its coming in through the back door, but we just brush it away! My daughter and i went out with my dogs this morn through all the fields between my house and the river and they're a giant puddle. In all honesty i think we've had a small amount of rain compared to those in Sheffield etc but our rivers are flooding cos of all other counties rain!!

I feel sorry for the people suffering, but we love being out in it!!!
 
We've had some torrential rain on and off here for the past day or two, today it's been raining pretty heavy but it's hot today too. We've got really nice sunshine for 10 mins then heavy rain for 10 then sun again, it's been like that all day.
 
Dave A
We've had some torrential rain on and off here for the past day or two, today it's been raining pretty heavy but it's hot today too. We've got really nice sunshine for 10 mins then heavy rain for 10 then sun again, it's been like that all day.
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You're in England, though. You guys get so much weird weather, it doesn't count. :p
 
No flooding where i live.

I can remember that my hometown in New Hampshire got pounded by a flood during the winter though. I'm somewhat glad we moved now because all the bedrooms in my old house are halfway underground :scared:
 
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In Baltimore on Thurs. it started raining pretty hard around 11:20 or so.

I just happened to be at the Yankee/Orioles game. :grumpy:

The entire first row was about 2" of water, carrying all kinds of garbage with it. :dopey:

When it dropped down from the upper sections, it WAS a waterfall, quite loud too.
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Eww a river of trash. I bet that smelled pleasant. Oh and all this standing water has attracted more mosquitoes than ever. I was outside chopping off annoying tree branches and rose bushes with a chainsaw and I felt like my entire body was itching.:scared:
 
Dave A
We've had some torrential rain on and off here for the past day or two, today it's been raining pretty heavy but it's hot today too. We've got really nice sunshine for 10 mins then heavy rain for 10 then sun again, it's been like that all day.
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Yeah the same for us up in Lincolnshire, we have had some serious flooding and the river I have to go over to get to school had a severe flood warning. It looked really full up, we were hoping that it would flood before Sports Day but they drained the river into the surrounding fields to lower the river level. But still it has been hectic weather.
 
Living near a river poses it's risks. Especially when we build cities around them. God help London if expected sea level rises happens.
 
El Jarretto, sorry to hear about the extent of the flood damage you had. I don't recognize that overhead shot, what town is that?



3-Wheel Drive
Oh yeah. Central Texas is getting POUNDED. Wettest spring on record here in the Hill Country.
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Yes, we went from one extreme to the other... (thank you global warming :ouch:). It was only a few weeks ago Lake Travis was at it's lowest level ever, exposing the original path of the Colorado river and exposing dozens of "islands" as well as many long lost structures and equipment that were consumed when they damned the river nearly 70 years ago. It made boating on lake Travis a dangerous activity these last few months, especially at night!

Now the Lake is well past normal levels, and they even had all four flood gates open recently... which created some impressive white river rapids at the upper part of Lake Austin.
 
DN
Yes, we went from one extreme to the other... (thank you global warming ). It was only a few weeks ago Lake Travis was at it's lowest level ever
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Sounds like where we live. Bad droughts for a long time now. We've been in water restrictions for quite a while, then all of a sudden we get hit by massive floods.

Still water restrictions, though. :(
 
I'm in Wichita Falls. Here's some pics of the downtown area. They suck because my camera skills are non-existant.
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You can't even see the road!
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Here's the river, as you can see the tree are drowning now.
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There's actually a road and a little parking area for trailers under that.
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This hotel had water in the first floor, that's going to suck to repair.
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Here's a really crappy shot, there's a waterfall to the left. You can't see the small bridge in front of it, it's completely under water.
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Random street in downtown.
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Kay Yeager Coliseum is blocked off now, the parking lot is all under.
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Horrible picture, it's a trailer park. Bye bye white trash!
 
El Jarretto
Horrible picture, it's a trailer park. Bye bye white trash!
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[rant ahead - look out]
Much of my wife's family isn't fortunate enough to afford anything else, and live in trailers. I also have friend's in Oklahoma who's family currently live in trailers.

When my parents first had me and my brother, and were in their early twenties we all lived in a trailer. My father spent the first 17 years of his life in a single-wide trailer. Now he makes over $12,000/mo in the Air Force as a C-17 Pilot(Colonel with 20+ years), owns several business, rental properties, and new homes, and has his Masters degree. His oldest son - my brother - is in his 3rd year of law school... only to be followed by medical school:scared: . My mother recently became an attorney herself. I'm in the USAF like my father, and am also going to college.

I know you meant it as a joke, but to some people the trailer/white-trash comments aren't funny. Sadly I've made jokes about the same thing, so I can't get too upset. I did it when I didn't know my parents struggled at first, or that I had friends who lived in them.

Anyhoo, carry on. Sorry to flood your thread with my ranting. Take care.
 
'Floods are God's judgment on UK' says Pat Robertson


http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s1i21267

West Virginia Beach - (Ass Mess) The Reverend Pat Robertson has cancelled a visit to the UK and blamed the summer floods there on abortions, gay marriage, cannabis downgrading and godless inter-racial breeding run riot.

"The Lord has told me to stay away from the land of the heathen," Robertson said on his show this week.

"These floods are the Almighty's judgment on the immorality and greed of the Brits.

"They have provoked God to act by sending storms and making thousands of people homeless.

"The wrath of the Lord wreaked havoc by way of Hurrican Katrina and Brits should learn from that before it's too late."
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