OT- Flooding

[stever20]

Sending best wishes to our folks out in Omaha with the flooding we're hearing about.

[kmacker69]

Got a buddy there and although he's good, the rural areas are in bad shape! Stay safe!

[jfan]

Thanks for the good thoughts. Omaha, except for the suburb of Bellevue, is pretty dry. The city itself is surrounded on three sides by the Elkhorn, Platte and Missouri rivers. The Missouri is about 5 feet over flood stage (City levies mostly protect Omaha) and the Platte and Elkhorn are about 10 feet over flood stage, but run in a valley near Omaha. The cities on the periphery of Omaha are getting hit hard. Valley and Fremont are all completely cut off from the outside with major flooding. They have been using boats, big wheel trucks and even Blackhawk helicopters to rescue people. A lot of farmers are getting flooded. A waste treatment facility was flooded and raw sewage was spilling into the Missouri. If your house or business was downstream of that mess, imagine the cleanup problems! I'm not sure I'd want to move back! Cities to the south of where the Missouri and Platte merge, are faced with 10-11 feet over flood state. Will take a long time to clean up the mess.

[stever20]

did I see right that the Omaha NWS got evacuated for flooding?

[jfan]

Yes, that is located in Valley, one of the two cities very near Omaha that are cut off by the flooding!

[Xudash]

FWIW, our home flooded when Irma hit Jacksonville. We were one of 10,000 structures that flooded in that storm.

Boats were going up and down our road the day after. We had to bring a 70' tall pine down, that was lifting up out of the lawn after the water receded, before it fell onto the house.

About 3 feet of water in the entire first floor. Sparing you the details: both cars drowned and the entire first floor gutted, cleaned and restored.

And recall that Irma followed Harvey in Texas. The point? FEMA agents were buried, dealing with Texas. It wasn't going to be a quick experience dealing with Florida claims.

You're initially overwhelmed from the damage and from figuring out where to start. You then slug your way through it. It took us over a year to get back to "normalcy".

God bless the affected people in the Omaha area.

[jfan]

FWIW, our home flooded when Irma hit Jacksonville. We were one of 10,000 structures that flooded in that storm.

Boats were going up and down our road the day after. We had to bring a 70' tall pine down, that was lifting up out of the lawn after the water receded, before it fell onto the house.

About 3 feet of water in the entire first floor. Sparing you the details: both cars drowned and the entire first floor gutted, cleaned and restored.

And recall that Irma followed Harvey in Texas. The point? FEMA agents were buried, dealing with Texas. It wasn't going to be a quick experience dealing with Florida claims.

You're initially overwhelmed from the damage and from figuring out where to start. You then slug your way through it. It took us over a year to get back to "normalcy".

God bless the affected people in the Omaha area.

Sorry you had to go through that. Having that much water in the house is really nasty!

[Xudash]

FWIW, our home flooded when Irma hit Jacksonville. We were one of 10,000 structures that flooded in that storm.

Boats were going up and down our road the day after. We had to bring a 70' tall pine down, that was lifting up out of the lawn after the water receded, before it fell onto the house.

About 3 feet of water in the entire first floor. Sparing you the details: both cars drowned and the entire first floor gutted, cleaned and restored.

And recall that Irma followed Harvey in Texas. The point? FEMA agents were buried, dealing with Texas. It wasn't going to be a quick experience dealing with Florida claims.

You're initially overwhelmed from the damage and from figuring out where to start. You then slug your way through it. It took us over a year to get back to "normalcy".

God bless the affected people in the Omaha area.

Sorry you had to go through that. Having that much water in the house is really nasty!

Thanks. Unless you live through something like that you have no idea. Yet I think about the people who lost everything in the major fires. Some things that flood can be salvaged. Things that turn to ashes not so much.