New Jersey Flood
 

My buddies son and daughter-in-law live in Medford Lakes, NJ. As I understand it, 12" of rain caused the dams to go down like dominos. Very bad mojo. :(

A lot of damage but nobody killed, I think.

Hmmm.

One of my sister's best friends from college lives in Medford Lakes, as do several relatives of one of my best friends. No sitreps as of yet.

Great pics, bad scene. Hope everyone is alright and that they all had flood insurance.

I just posted the most dramatic pics. There's a ton showing where the water went, but you have to know the area to appreciate them. Lots of houses and commercial buildings full of mud and dumpsters full of PCs and heirlooms.
On the news they said most people don'thave flood insurance because it's not a major river and nothing like this ever happened before. I have FI because I live on a creek that HAS done that before but FI doesn't cover anything in the cellar except washer/dryer, water heater and boiler. :(

Damn, B, if the levee breaks you better put all the non-floatable dodads in the dryer.

Looks like a bad day to be a canoe.

I live in the Willamette Valley in Oregon. We are within spitting distance of a couple nice active volcanoes that nobody worries about. I wonder if I should get lava insurance.

The real tradegy here is that most of that damage was created by man. Dams were built with insufficient run off capability. Any dam that cannot withstand a 10 inch rain is, by design, defective. For water to hit that deep with that much force - it was because man built (or did not maintain) defective dams.

Ask Helen. ;)

This reminds me of the floods of 1993 back in the Midwest. What a mess...thank God no one was killed or seriously injured.

My sister has heard from her friend in Medford. They are all fine, and their house survived, although their neighbors are not so lucky. Apparently everyone around them got flooded out. They have the only house on the street that's set a bit higher, and they don't have a basement.

Was it a log cabin, Wolf? :confused:

Wow, that's brutal. Makes me glad to be at elevation here.

I believe so. They seem to be popular there.