Electricity is back :)

[Jim]

Holy Shit, we got a ton of rain for the past 3 days. Like Greenie said in another thread, we had some serious flooding just down the road from us. So, I understand why the Village turned off all the electricity for the emergency. But, around noon today, the skys cleared, the mud started to turn to dust and the dust started to blow away. I called the electric company at around 2PM and asked when the power would be back on. They told me that they had to wait until all basements were pumped dry. I mentioned that the correct way to do it might be to turn off the power to the 10 homes with their basements flooded. We just watched the power company come by and flip on our transformer...woohoo.

More rain is expected tonight. A lot of homes have been evacuated and we have a red cross center up the street. Wait till you see the pictures I took. I heard bad things happened at my old house

[Cleo]

Wow it's like living in Florida but with snow in the winter.

[Jim]

Cleo
This happens in the Winter here but never in the Summer. Here is a picture from the newspaper. The address is 61 Main Street. Our address is 62
http://www.herkimertelegram.com/arti...ews/news01.txt

[Fonz]

Everytime the electricity goes down here for a few hours (network maintenance, an transformer exploding at the central, ...) I always find it amazing how little you can do without it.

Good to hear you're up and running again

[MrMaryLou]

Wow Jim stay safe

[Jim]

Thanks MML but we were always safe. We are on a slight hill that puts us at about 2 feet above the homes across the street. During the time I lived here when I was a kid from 10 to about 18, I saw the same thing about 6 times during the winter months. Check out some of the pictures and videos from our local tv station. A restaurant went into a local creek and they have the video.
http://www.wktv.com

[Cleo]

Always nice to be on the higher ground in one's neighborhood.

I'm on some of the highest ground around here not that it's very high since it is so flat down here but it was high enough that my toilets still flushed and my drains still drained when we all lost power for weeks on end last year. But this meant that our stuff was all draining into the houses on the lower ground so they had our shit literally coming out of their toilets and drains.

Looking like we are going to finally get today's afternoon storms. I have to go run some errands so I just look at it as a free car wash Florida style.

[Jim]

Well, we made the National News on NBC tonight. They showed the resturant going into the creek.

[Cleo]

I see Wilkes-Barre in the news. I spent time there as a young child before moving to Florida. I was born in Pennsylvania and lived in that area for a bit over the first ten years of my life.

Wow you all are in a real mess today.

[Jim]

It really never happens here. Remember, we live in an old part of the country. I once worked on a main sewage line in a town next to ours that was made from an old tree. And, a lot of dams are made of dirt. So, when something like this does happen, nothing and nobody is prepared.

My Daughter just called and told me that the road we used to live on is gone. Well, a mile of it is gone anyway. Our old pond and bridge is gone. And, the water from the land I still own decided to go through the dining room of our old house Nobody lives there yet.

[Cleo]

Looks like a real mess.
It made our local newspaper
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/loc...home-headlines

This is right where I would be living if my family hadn't relocated to Florida back in the late sixties.

[Greenguy]

Originally Posted by Jim

...My Daughter just called and told me that the road we used to live on is gone. Well, a mile of it is gone anyway. Our old pond and bridge is gone. And, the water from the land I still own decided to go through the dining room of our old house Nobody lives there yet.

I have to see pics!!!!!

[sue-fl]

Wow what a mess! I saw it on the news tonight also, glad your on higher ground Jim

[Greenguy]

Originally Posted by Jim

Cleo
This happens in the Winter here but never in the Summer. Here is a picture from the newspaper. The address is 61 Main Street. Our address is 62
http://www.herkimertelegram.com/arti...ews/news01.txt

I just looked at that picture again. When did you move back to 1950?

[terry]

I have been watching the news.. man thats bad. And thanks for the link to vids and pics. Take care!

[Jim]

Originally Posted by Greenie

I just looked at that picture again. When did you move back to 1950?

You know what it's like around here, we never really left the 50s That house is much different looking than it looks there. Vickie watched them take that picture and told me that it was taken after the storm. The kids went home and posed for it I have some pictures of it during the storm, I think. The place next to it was a lot worse. But, I think that house is in some of them. I paid more attention to the street one over from us that was a river.

I have no idea how my daughter got up Creek Road (st rt 168) to see our old house. Here is a picture just before the house. http://www.uticaod.com/apps/pbcs.dll...rams=Itemnr=16 I haven't seen it myself and I don't know if I really can bring myself to go see it. We haven't been there since we moved. But, this picture kinds of make me believe her. I don't see a bridge and it should be there Looking at that picture, I have no idea how it could have stayed up. The local towns lost 10 bridges yesterday that were built by the state. The one that was over 100 years, built by a farmer had no chance.

Look at this one. You must remember it...don't go up the hill http://www.uticaod.com/apps/pbcs.dll...rams=Itemnr=26

[Greenguy]

HOLY FUCK! That's nuts!

[Greenguy]

Jim - save those pics on your system, because as they add new ones, the URL's change.

[Jim]

Really? Grabbing them now