rachaelsscraps
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Urgh... I'm not a happy camper right now.. you may remember Hurricane Irene and how it destroyed a lot of riverways in New England last year... Well, on Monday-Tuesday we're expecting Hurricane Sandy.
I live right at the base of a major river that runs right down the mountain. It has a 20 foot high floodwall around it because even regular rain raises this river quite high. Well, with Irene, the water was right up to the top. Many houses, bridges, garages, cars, and trees fell all along the river. It literally quadrupled in width because of Irene, and the towns spent months redirecting the river with diggers. I'm not kidding. This video went nationwide on news channels last fall, and was shot a few houses down from mine. We were evacuated from our house because they thought the floodwall would go down and wash away the whole street. Imagine the river in this video, where the people are standing, usually being 20 feet down below the ground level...
Anyways... they still haven't fixed or reinforced that floodwall from the damage of Irene, and now we have Hurricane Sandy coming in a few days. All ememergency departments in our town are preplanning, about to set up cement walls to redirect the water from the houses if the floodwall breaks. They have engineers from the tri-state area on their way to work on it! But they are doubtful that would help because we're talking millions of gallons of water pouring down a river, they can't stop it no matter what they do. They are pretty sure the floodwall will break, and they are also pretty sure that if it breaks, the whole street will wash away..
My dad is a firefighter so we get the inside info that they are keeping under wraps for now (they don't want to start a panic). We already know that our street is going to be evacuated around Monday morning, so we're probably going to be heading for higher ground this weekend.
So, if you guys never hear from me again... harharharrr...j/k... Fun fun...pretty please pray for us and our house and our neighbors and their houses and stuffs..
I live right at the base of a major river that runs right down the mountain. It has a 20 foot high floodwall around it because even regular rain raises this river quite high. Well, with Irene, the water was right up to the top. Many houses, bridges, garages, cars, and trees fell all along the river. It literally quadrupled in width because of Irene, and the towns spent months redirecting the river with diggers. I'm not kidding. This video went nationwide on news channels last fall, and was shot a few houses down from mine. We were evacuated from our house because they thought the floodwall would go down and wash away the whole street. Imagine the river in this video, where the people are standing, usually being 20 feet down below the ground level...
Anyways... they still haven't fixed or reinforced that floodwall from the damage of Irene, and now we have Hurricane Sandy coming in a few days. All ememergency departments in our town are preplanning, about to set up cement walls to redirect the water from the houses if the floodwall breaks. They have engineers from the tri-state area on their way to work on it! But they are doubtful that would help because we're talking millions of gallons of water pouring down a river, they can't stop it no matter what they do. They are pretty sure the floodwall will break, and they are also pretty sure that if it breaks, the whole street will wash away..
My dad is a firefighter so we get the inside info that they are keeping under wraps for now (they don't want to start a panic). We already know that our street is going to be evacuated around Monday morning, so we're probably going to be heading for higher ground this weekend.
So, if you guys never hear from me again... harharharrr...j/k... Fun fun...pretty please pray for us and our house and our neighbors and their houses and stuffs..
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