New Jersey Flood

xoxoxoBruce · 07-15-2004, 11:12 PM

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.

xoxoxoBruce · 07-15-2004, 11:15 PM

A lot of damage but nobody killed, I think.

Undertoad · 07-15-2004, 11:17 PM

Hmmm.

wolf · 07-15-2004, 11:58 PM

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.

Elspode · 07-16-2004, 12:23 PM

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

xoxoxoBruce · 07-16-2004, 02:28 PM

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.

Undertoad · 07-16-2004, 02:49 PM

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

Slothboy · 07-16-2004, 05:11 PM

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.

tw · 07-16-2004, 06:22 PM

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.

xoxoxoBruce · 07-16-2004, 08:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Slothboy

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.

Ask Helen.

elSicomoro · 07-16-2004, 08:57 PM

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

wolf · 07-17-2004, 01:28 AM

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.

xoxoxoBruce · 07-17-2004, 05:50 AM

Was it a log cabin, Wolf?

Griff · 07-17-2004, 08:06 AM

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

wolf · 07-17-2004, 09:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Was it a log cabin, Wolf?

I believe so. They seem to be popular there.

07-15-2004, 11:12 PM	#1
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	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. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump. Last edited by xoxoxoBruce; 04-07-2007 at 06:01 PM.

07-15-2004, 11:15 PM	#2
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	A lot of damage but nobody killed, I think. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump. Last edited by xoxoxoBruce; 04-07-2007 at 06:01 PM.

07-15-2004, 11:58 PM	#4
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	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. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

07-16-2004, 12:23 PM	#5
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	Great pics, bad scene. Hope everyone is alright and that they all had flood insurance. __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

07-16-2004, 02:28 PM	#6
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	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. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump. Last edited by xoxoxoBruce; 04-07-2007 at 06:01 PM.

07-15-2004, 11:17 PM	#3
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Hmmm.

07-16-2004, 02:49 PM	#7
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Damn, B, if the levee breaks you better put all the non-floatable dodads in the dryer.

07-16-2004, 05:11 PM	#8
Slothboy *No known superpowers. Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Oregon Posts: 48	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. __________________ Super perfundo on the early eve of your day.

07-16-2004, 06:22 PM	#9
tw Read? I only know how to write. Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 11,933	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.

07-16-2004, 08:57 PM	#11
elSicomoro Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 12,486	This reminds me of the floods of 1993 back in the Midwest. What a mess...thank God no one was killed or seriously injured.

07-17-2004, 01:28 AM	#12
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	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. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

07-17-2004, 05:50 AM	#13
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Was it a log cabin, Wolf? __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

07-17-2004, 08:06 AM	#14
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Wow, that's brutal. Makes me glad to be at elevation here. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

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