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Originally posted by Crazy Flamer@Sep 18 2004, 12:18 AM
How can people continue to live in such an area? I'm not trying to be a prick or anything, I'm really curious. I'm sure there are people who live in Florida who have had to start from scratch several times in their lives due to the destruction of hurricanes. I guess the same goes for people who live in California and the effect of Earthquakes. It must start to weigh a person down having to pick up the pieces and start from square one everytime a hurricane hits. My heart goes out to you guys.
Keep safe.
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I live in the mountains of Western NC, no where near Florida. I personally have a home on the top of a mountain, so normally flood waters are of little concern. These last 2 weeks however, the rain has caused major problems for parts of the entire eastern states. Here maybe more than some areas, but nothing like what happened in Florida or Alabama.
I lived in High River in 97 when it got clobbered as well. Had 5' of water in my business.
It doesnt matter where you live...floods can happen at any time. Calgary has had major flooding.
As an example...an 82 ear old woman was sleeping in her room...in her house on a mountain when the whole thing let loose. She survived this.
Here is a
LINK to her story.
The biggest concern in this area is trees falling. The reason being 3-fold. First this area has about the most dense foilage anywhere in NA. 2. With the amount of rain we have had this summer, (over 3 feeet in the last 3 weeks here) the ground is so wet that trees root systems are exposed and more easily can topple. 3)The winds that have been associated with the remnants of Frances and Ivan were still topping 60 MPH when they got here...add all 3 together and you have this....ALL over the area. Power lines are a common casualty.
This is about 1/4 mile from my house.
This is the one that had me reeling. This is I-40, THE major East-West artery through the state. The right hand lane is gone into the river. Normally that water is 20 feet below the edge of the road. Just wild and having driven it many mant times...hard to fathom
