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benefactor
05-24-2015, 08:35 PM
Any of you scros get washed away? Heard the shit got real overnight down around San Marcos.

Spurs9
05-25-2015, 10:15 AM
Heard 350 homes got washed away near Wimberly.
Meanwhile these morons "floating" the river and end up not being able to get out for about 40 miles :lmao
https://www.reddit.com/r/Austin/comments/374jdp/what_a_great_kickoff_to_the_summer_water_feels/?sort=confidence

InRareForm
05-25-2015, 10:20 AM
bring that rain to california tbh...

DJR210
05-25-2015, 11:56 AM
bring that rain to california tbh...

California is fucked, the Mojave desert is expanding. You'll be officially in it soon enough. Then an earthquake will strike and you'll plunge to the bottom of the Pacific.

Avante
05-25-2015, 12:25 PM
I keep waiting for the powers that be to forbid lawn watering and the car washes. We are on every other day now with lawn watering. If everyones lawn was dead, ok.

There is a lake "Success" about 10 miles east of where I'm sitting, we hang in the park up there a lot. It's never been as low a it is right now. So we are seeing all these ducks/birds clustered closer together, it really is a sight, especially when they get startled and take off as a group.

So far other than the odd/even waterings and the condition of Lake Success, the drought has had no effect on my life.....yet.

It did rain a few days ago.

DJR210
05-25-2015, 12:32 PM
I keep waiting for the powers that be to forbid lawn watering and the car washes. We are on every other day now with lawn watering. If everyones lawn was dead, ok.

There is a lake "Success" about 10 miles east of where I'm sitting, we hang in the park up there a lot. It's never been as low a it is right now. So we are seeing all these ducks/birds clustered closer together, it really is a sight, especially when they get startled and take off as a group.

So far other than the odd/even waterings and the condition of Lake Success, the drought has had no effect on my life.....yet.

It did rain a few days ago.

Surprised produce prices aren't through the roof tbh.

DMC
05-25-2015, 03:50 PM
Shit's still getting real... I put buoys in my back yard for large ships to navigate.

Blake
05-25-2015, 04:20 PM
California is fucked, the Mojave desert is expanding. You'll be officially in it soon enough. Then an earthquake will strike and you'll plunge to the bottom of the Pacific.

That's ok The Rock will use his helicopter to fly everyone to Texas

ChumpDumper
05-25-2015, 04:55 PM
Man, Lamar Street is going to be way underwater.

Lake Travis up 20 feet since May 1.

RD2191
05-25-2015, 05:07 PM
Man, Lamar Street is going to be way underwater.

Lake Travis up 20 feet since May 1.
did you die?

ChumpDumper
05-25-2015, 05:22 PM
did you die?Nah, I'm on a nice plateau -- but RIP anything around Shoal Creek.

RD2191
05-25-2015, 05:27 PM
Nah, I'm on a nice plateau -- but RIP anything around Shoal Creek.
:tu

ChumpDumper
05-25-2015, 05:34 PM
Rescue at House Park (15th and Lamar) in progress:

http://kxan.com/live-stream-2/

benefactor
05-25-2015, 05:34 PM
Yep...the area is getting pummeled again this evening.

RD2191
05-25-2015, 05:37 PM
needs to stop raining, can't cut any wheat.

DMC
05-25-2015, 06:02 PM
Nah, I'm on a nice plateau -- but RIP anything around Shoal Creek.
https://lintvkxan.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/lamar-and-15th-frank-martinez.jpg?w=660&h=371&crop=1

Spurs9
05-25-2015, 06:52 PM
My BMW got partially flooded last weekend. I've been smelling moldy smells in the car and couldn't find the leak. I noticed my back seat seatbelt getting moldy, so I reached behind the seat. I felt water and I took off the seat to find about 6 inches of water under it and black mold everywhere. I had been sick for about a month recently and I'm very allergic to mold. Ended up being a sunroof seal that was old and letting in water thru my rear C pilar. Hopefully I don't get any more water in the car after replacing it tbh

benefactor
05-25-2015, 06:52 PM
Sirens just went off here in Tyler.

DPG21920
05-25-2015, 07:25 PM
Stuff is crazy here in Austin. I'm SoCo area but wow.

DMC
05-25-2015, 10:50 PM
My BMW got partially flooded last weekend. I've been smelling moldy smells in the car and couldn't find the leak. I noticed my back seat seatbelt getting moldy, so I reached behind the seat. I felt water and I took off the seat to find about 6 inches of water under it and black mold everywhere. I had been sick for about a month recently and I'm very allergic to mold. Ended up being a sunroof seal that was old and letting in water thru my rear C pilar. Hopefully I don't get any more water in the car after replacing it tbh

Cool story, shut the fuck up.

djohn2oo8
05-26-2015, 12:28 AM
Galleria parking garage
http://m.click2houston.com/image/view/-/33215030/highRes/1/-/maxh/360/maxw/640/-/13bcxvdz/-/vinceb-sotmrpins-jpg.jpg

HI-FI
05-26-2015, 12:30 AM
^ from the Highlander remake iirc.

Clipper Nation
05-26-2015, 12:43 AM
Any truth to the rumor that the flooding was caused by the tears of SASdynasty!, K..., Brazil, ducks, TheGreatYacht, Perry Mason and all the other Porker stans upstairs?

Robz4000
05-26-2015, 01:03 AM
Any truth to the rumor that the flooding was caused by the tears of SASdynasty!, K..., Brazil, ducks, TheGreatYacht, Perry Mason and all the other Porker stans upstairs?

It'd make sense tbh. The amount of rainfall is nearly equal to Porker's weight.

RD2191
05-26-2015, 06:45 AM
Any truth to the rumor that the flooding was caused by the tears of SASdynasty! (http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=9070), K... (http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=12977), Brazil (http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=14466), ducks (http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=13), TheGreatYacht (http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=43719), Perry Mason (http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=43550) and all the other Porker stans upstairs?
:lmao

baseline bum
05-26-2015, 07:10 AM
Holy shit, Houston got raped like hell. I can't imagine what low lying 3rd Ward looks like today.

boutons_deux
05-26-2015, 07:12 AM
Surprised produce prices aren't through the roof tbh.

The off-the-farm price is a tiny %age of retail price. There's a reason BigFood sells dead, packaged, processed, industrial, pathogenic food-like crap, instead of fresh produce.

Koolaid_Man
05-26-2015, 07:23 AM
Shit's still getting real... I put buoys in my back yard for large ships to navigate.


In your colon..shit is always real....in fact its shit while you're eating it

DMC
05-26-2015, 07:29 AM
In your colon..shit is always real....in fact its shit while you're eating it

Too bad the troll forum closed down, eh fatty?

djohn2oo8
05-26-2015, 08:41 AM
Holy shit, Houston got raped like hell. I can't imagine what low lying 3rd Ward looks like today.

http://m.click2houston.com/image/view/-/33218366/highRes/1/-/maxh/360/maxw/640/-/fnfx5gz/-/charlesj2-JPG.jpg

Imagine walking through that with goddamn lobsters :lol

djohn2oo8
05-26-2015, 08:45 AM
http://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/80a9cb52a6ceddebaeb81afddc8ff854983a0043/c=0-0-420-316&r=x483&c=640x480/local/-/media/2015/05/26/KHOU/KHOU/635682152993177949-i45photo4.jpg

I 10

djohn2oo8
05-26-2015, 08:51 AM
http://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/23cbd4f0e48b89c55db4d26e3f1137e53bf3fe8b/c=1-0-959-720&r=x483&c=640x480/local/-/media/2015/05/26/KHOU/KHOU/635682066924001379-11206939-830213283700001-5956260771963842974-n.jpg

cantthinkofanything
05-26-2015, 08:53 AM
Holy shit, Houston got raped like hell. I can't imagine what low lying 3rd Ward looks like today.

I bet it's improved.

djohn2oo8
05-26-2015, 08:56 AM
People still at Toyota Center.

djohn2oo8
05-26-2015, 08:59 AM
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Should have worked on free throws.

djohn2oo8
05-26-2015, 09:38 AM
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45

djohn2oo8
05-26-2015, 09:48 AM
Holy shit, Houston got raped like hell. I can't imagine what low lying 3rd Ward looks like today.

This is as close to third ward as I can find. This is by U of H. So 3rd ward probably was fucked.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CF6krEOUMAADWJu.jpg

Robz4000
05-26-2015, 11:40 AM
RIP Houston

DMC
05-26-2015, 12:01 PM
Curry did that

djohn2oo8
05-26-2015, 02:19 PM
wnD3D-4fA9c

TE
05-26-2015, 03:29 PM
I saw pictures of the mall. Holy shit it's bad.

djohn2oo8
05-26-2015, 04:15 PM
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DMC
05-26-2015, 04:48 PM
I saw pictures of the mall. Holy shit it's bad.
Yeah but the water washed all the negroes out. It's better now.

Silver&Black
05-26-2015, 05:43 PM
Yeah but the water washed all the negroes out. It's better now.

They'll be back...

Silver&Black
05-26-2015, 05:45 PM
603273249141719040

Fuck that....................

RD2191
05-26-2015, 05:47 PM
Fuck that....................
kill it and make boots

RD2191
05-26-2015, 05:48 PM
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/89/0e/88/890e881aa33b63fbd15363aa47024c53.jpg

silver&black gonna be rockin these hoes

Silver&Black
05-26-2015, 05:50 PM
silver&black gonna be rockin these hoes

You gd right I am...

RD2191
05-26-2015, 05:55 PM
You gd right I am...
:lmao

djohn2oo8
05-26-2015, 06:51 PM
http://espn.go.com/blog/san-francisco-49ers/post/_/id/13557/colin-kaepernick-deletes-tonedeaf-storm-post

Colin Kaepernick jokes about the flooding

DMC
05-26-2015, 07:40 PM
Wow he joked about the flooding? I'd never make fun of Katrina or anything like that tbh.

djohn2oo8
05-26-2015, 07:48 PM
Wow he joked about the flooding? I'd never make fun of Katrina or anything like that tbh.

It was a shitty joke anyway. 7storms?

DMX7
05-27-2015, 10:50 AM
http://m.click2houston.com/image/view/-/33218366/highRes/1/-/maxh/360/maxw/640/-/fnfx5gz/-/charlesj2-JPG.jpg

Imagine walking through that with goddamn lobsters :lol

Oh, that is going to give me nightmares. I would not get near that even though I love to eat lobster.

FkLA
05-27-2015, 03:33 PM
This is as close to third ward as I can find. This is by U of H. So 3rd ward probably was fucked.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CF6krEOUMAADWJu.jpg

Did UH get damaged? I hope their new stadium is underwater. :lol

djohn2oo8
05-30-2015, 05:49 PM
Did UH get damaged? I hope their new stadium is underwater. :lol

:lol they got plenty of water in the stadium

djohn2oo8
05-30-2015, 05:50 PM
More flooding. Calf deep water in downtown.

djohn2oo8
05-30-2015, 05:58 PM
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djohn2oo8
05-30-2015, 06:02 PM
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djohn2oo8
05-30-2015, 06:05 PM
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djohn2oo8
05-30-2015, 06:20 PM
604788037512339457

Thompson
05-30-2015, 06:33 PM
How bad did it get in Austin? I read about one guy who was killed, but were there any more fatalities / serious injuries? I used to live there / know quite a few people in the area.

I tried looking it up online (after I was surprised to hear there had been a death in Travis County - I thought it was all around Hays County), and I only saw the report of one guy who was killed in his truck. I was in Austin earlier this week and didn't see any damage.

Stevie Johnson
05-30-2015, 06:35 PM
I hope you all drown but not die. I'm talking to you djohn2oo8, fucking asshole.

djohn2oo8
05-30-2015, 06:36 PM
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Wild Cobra?

djohn2oo8
05-30-2015, 06:39 PM
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djohn2oo8
05-30-2015, 06:39 PM
I hope you all drown but not die. I'm talking to you djohn2oo8, fucking asshole.

:tu

Stevie Johnson
05-30-2015, 06:39 PM
LOL wtf. That's the type of inbred shit you probably find in Houston.

djohn2oo8
05-30-2015, 06:57 PM
604798099056414720

baseline bum
05-30-2015, 07:05 PM
604783349543018496

Hopefully that flood washes away all the faggots there

djohn2oo8
05-30-2015, 07:08 PM
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djohn2oo8
05-30-2015, 07:08 PM
Hopefully that flood washes away all the faggots there

:lol true

RD2191
05-30-2015, 08:44 PM
604792188233379840

Wild Cobra?
the fuck is benefactor doing on his atv?

DJR210
05-30-2015, 08:57 PM
Dude, fuck the rain already. It's been raining nearly non-stop for 3 weeks now. Enough is enough god damnit.

Drachen
05-30-2015, 10:15 PM
How bad did it get in Austin? I read about one guy who was killed, but were there any more fatalities / serious injuries? I used to live there / know quite a few people in the area.

I tried looking it up online (after I was surprised to hear there had been a death in Travis County - I thought it was all around Hays County), and I only saw the report of one guy who was killed in his truck. I was in Austin earlier this week and didn't see any damage.

I saw a video shot from am apartment balcony in downtown Austin. Apparently Shoal creek jumped its banks in a big way and flooded 4th 5th 6th and 7th around N lamar

DMC
05-30-2015, 10:37 PM
Oh, that is going to give me nightmares. I would not get near that even though I love to eat lobster.
Looks more like a crayfish to me.

DMC
05-30-2015, 10:38 PM
Dude, fuck the rain already. It's been raining nearly non-stop for 3 weeks now. Enough is enough god damnit.
Last week I had patches of powdery mold on my St Augustine. I thought someone dumped something on my lawn, but it was mold.

DJR210
05-30-2015, 10:49 PM
Last week I had patches of powdery mold on my St Augustine. I thought someone dumped something on my lawn, but it was mold.

http://www.gardeningknowhow.com/lawn-care/lgen/powdery-mildew-on-grass.htm

Say's in the first line of the article that powdery mold on grass is the result of trying to grow grass in a poor location. So I guess this confirms you're poor.

DMC
05-30-2015, 11:06 PM
http://www.gardeningknowhow.com/lawn-care/lgen/powdery-mildew-on-grass.htm

Say's in the first line of the article that powdery mold on grass is the result of trying to grow grass in a poor location. So I guess this confirms you're poor.

Thank you very much for the inquiry. What we are dealing with is likely a disease aptly named slime mold. It occurs following in warm weather after heavy rains or watering. The name is much more severe than the disease as there will be no long term effects. Therefore fungicides are usually a waste of resources. Instead, mow the area, rake the mold, or wash it off. The mold should run its course and pass in time. Make sure the lawn is not getting over watered.
Again thanks for the inquiry.
Respectfully,
Trey Rogers
The Yard Doctor

Aztecfan03
05-31-2015, 12:17 AM
Dude, fuck the rain already. It's been raining nearly non-stop for 3 weeks now. Enough is enough god damnit.
Send it to So Cal.

benefactor
05-31-2015, 07:47 AM
the fuck is benefactor doing on his atv?
:cry there goes my hero :cry

TDMVPDPOY
05-31-2015, 08:07 AM
raining in texas...while in cali drought...

is texas cachements even taking all this water or its just to going to up in the ocean

boutons_deux
05-31-2015, 09:49 AM
raining in texas...while in cali drought...

is texas cachements even taking all this water or its just to going to up in the ocean

TX A&M clima guy on Texas Public Radio said the ground in the storm areas is saturated. Where it would have take 5,6 inches to flood in dry times, now the same flood would need only 3,4 inches, so the ground surface is saturated.

The Edwards aquifer east and north of San Antonio is way up:

http://www.saws.org/CFIDE/GraphData.cfm?graphCache=wc50&graphID=Images/4340821930103815.PNG

http://www.saws.org/Your_Water/aquifer/

The flood water is moving down the Guadalupe river. At Canyon dam on the Guadalupe north of SA, enough water behind the dam, so they are releasing more water.

RandomGuy
06-10-2015, 05:24 PM
Any of you scros get washed away? Heard the shit got real overnight down around San Marcos.

Eyup.

Heard a lot of police/fire sirens which we usually ignore, since we live close to a highway. We were all sound asleep at about 4:30am. Sirens didn't go away.

Wife poked head out of door and saw some water out at curb, about normal for a heavy rain, but heard police loudspeakers saying "evacuate the area". She came back in, woke me up. I got up pretty much immediately, got kids up, then got dressed.

Grabbed vital papers, yanked all the cables out of the computer, and stuck it into a garbage bag due to the rain. Opened door and found the front lawn was under a foot and a half of water. Probably ten minutes or less since wife looked.

Ran out to wife's hatchback, threw stuff in back, then ran back inside shouting at family to drop everything else and go. Wife was confused, because, in her head, the water was still out at the curb. When she saw the water lapping over the first step of the stoop, she realized it was time to go.

Grabbed the 8 year old very tightly, and held on to 12 year olds hand. Got them in car, which was filling up with water, jumped in and got it started. Turned around slowly, going with flow of water, and managed to make a turn down street towards highway which was higher ground. Got out of flood water with probably a few minutes to spare. Water was pretty much at the headlight level.

Not sure where to go, headed toward university which sits on a hill. Ended up in parking garage, drained the 4 inches of water out of car.

Went to evac center to get news. Not really any, but we did see the people who didn't make it out and slept through the sirens. They arrived at evac center in the back of dump trucks in their pajamas.

Went to Target, to get dry clothes, since we had nothing but the wet stuff we had on when we left.

They let us back in about 11am or so. To be safe, I left wife and kids on high ground and walked in. Street was muddy, and you could see where the dump truck had backed up to someone's house, due to the foot-deep furrows in the yard.

Found my car had floated into neighbors yard. Opened door and found it was a silty mess. Scared a lizard that was in it under the seat.

Opened door to house, a pier and beam.. and no visible water damage. Smelled odd.

Stepped on carpet... SQUISH. 90% of house was hit, with water soaking carpet and padding. Laundry room, which was a step down, was a muddy mess, as was all of the clothes we had stacked down there as we were getting ready for laundry day.

Neighbors on slabs got about 1.5 to 2 feet of water in their houses, including the poor college kids who lived next door. Checked on their cats for them, let them know they were ok. All sitting up on furniture meowing for help. Figured they were fine and left.

Walked back out, found our way around stalled cars and dropped her off. Sat there for a few minutes thinking. "ok, now what?" Car is a loss...fuck it, let insurance deal with it. Anything on the floor was soaking up the nasty mucky water from the carpet. I knew we would need some place to put it, and to stage shit.

Went to closest storage unit, and found ONE guy had beat me there. Turns out to be a really good decision, as they all rented out in the day or two that followed. Older guy lived a block closer to river. We both got the largest units we could. Computers were down, but clerk handed me paperwork to fill out, and I promised I would get cash and return. Had to drive 20 miles, but got cash, and two large tarps that turned out to be worth their weight in gold from Academy.

Got unit, with lock. Old guy got the ONE truck they had for new unit rentals. I was nice to him, though, despite being disappointed, since I might have to suck up to him and ask for help or use of the truck.

Set out the tarps on the front lawn, and got working with kids and wife. Dumped clothes on tarps, hosed them off, since the water was still going. Turns out the shitty rental house we bitched about for years because it just had window unit A/Cs, but was cheap and let us pay off a lot of bills, was not a bad deal. We had water and functioning air conditioning. Most of the neighborhood didn't. Ground level condenser units were often not there.

Started packing everything as fast as possible. Co-worker showed up the first day, with his college age boy. FUCK YEAH. Owe them a lot, as the muscle was needed. Ex-boss showed up with truck, and we got a fair amount out to the unit the first day. Thank god it was memorial day and a lot of people had the day off.

The following days were exhausting. 18 hour days of packing carrying, loading, unloading, trying to save everything. Couldn't stop to help neighbors much, as we had to get ourselves set.

Volunteers started showing up at the next day. First it was a survey team for what turns out to be a Billy Graham charity. Older people, asking what was needed. What was needed was young healthy people to move shit out of houses.

Due to location on our block, with a slight widening of street, our house was a natural place to put dumpsters. After the dumpsters... Mennonites. Surreal. They parked a camping trailer on our lawn, after speaking to us, and the management company representing the owners of our rental house, and set up a kitchen across the street. We let them hook up to our electricity, and water.

Nice people to a person. Gave them nopalitos, and hot sauce out of cupboard. ROFL. They were game to try cactus.

Overall lucky. Everybody safe. Staying in crappy rental let us pay down bills, and we turned in the notice to vacate to management company day before flood, as we are having our first house built. New house was closer to river that flooded, but higher up and didn't flood. Move in is on the 18th.

Lost car which sucked. Was going to hold on to that sucker for another 5 years while we continue to sock away money. Staying with friend of wife for a few weeks. Management company was cool.

One thing I did was ripped out the stinky carpet and padding as we emptied rooms. Got it all out in about 3 days. Not my house, but it earned me a lot of goodwill from management company. Fucking house owner never called to see if his tenants were ok, so he can suck it. Asshole didn't have flood insurance, so I don't feel sorry for him. We didn't have to clean the house and we got our full damage deposit back. Spent that on rental car already.

Neighbors though are stuck. Nice blue collar neighborhood, with older retirees and a few people on disability, based on the wheelchair ramps down the block. Went back on weekend to see if they needed any help, helped Mennonites pack up, and politely refused the Jesus stuff they tried to hand me.

One of the charities did help us out. A seminary student named Justin, and his wife, helped us toward the end with some stuff. They gave us a bible, after signing it. I accepted it graciously, and thanked them.

Anyhoo.. that's it so far. Going back this weekend to check on neighbors again.

RandomGuy
06-10-2015, 05:33 PM
TX A&M clima guy on Texas Public Radio said the ground in the storm areas is saturated. Where it would have take 5,6 inches to flood in dry times, now the same flood would need only 3,4 inches, so the ground surface is saturated.

The Edwards aquifer east and north of San Antonio is way up:

http://www.saws.org/CFIDE/GraphData.cfm?graphCache=wc50&graphID=Images/4340821930103815.PNG

http://www.saws.org/Your_Water/aquifer/

The flood water is moving down the Guadalupe river. At Canyon dam on the Guadalupe north of SA, enough water behind the dam, so they are releasing more water.

heh, minor rainstorm the second day caused yet another evacuation in the middle of our cleaning. Since ground was so soaked, it didn't take much to make the street into a new stream. Police cars telling everybody to GTFO. I got TFO without hesitating. Of course, wife had all the clothes... including my pants... at the laundromat. Policeman was nice enough to let me and the boys in the back of his car in my rain jacket and underwear anyway, and dropped us off some where a bit higher for wife to pick up. Thankful for cell phones at that point.

RandomGuy
06-10-2015, 05:45 PM
Dude, fuck the rain already. It's been raining nearly non-stop for 3 weeks now. Enough is enough god damnit.

Heh. My thoughts exactly. Gonna rain more this weekend though.

RandomGuy
06-10-2015, 05:48 PM
http://www.dallasnews.com/incoming/20150525-0525sanmarcosflood.jpg.ece/BINARY/w940/0525sanmarcosflood.JPG

CVS, 6 minute walk from the old house. Weird to see it on the news.

Saw the drone overflights the first day, figured it was going to end up somewhere.

RandomGuy
06-10-2015, 05:56 PM
http://media.cmgdigital.com/shared/lt/lt_cache/thumbnail/610/img/photos/2015/05/29/25/9b/Billy_5.jpg

Pretty much what the neighborhood is like now. Construction dumpsters and front loaders taking out drywall and flooring.

Photo courtesy of christian charity doing a lot of the heavy lifting. Floods need lots of young healthy bodies to do hot, manual labor.

Samaritan's Purse, by the by.

http://www.samaritanspurse.org/article/joining-gods-family/

I passed on the prayers, but thanked them.

Got the feeling that they and the Mennonites were hoping the adversity would force the atheist (yes, I was honest about that) to find God. They left disappointed.

Mixed feelings about their help. Thanks for the actual real help, but I could do without the fake magic hope bullshit, thanks.

SnakeBoy
06-10-2015, 07:13 PM
Damn RG

All of that happens to you, Christians show up to help you out and you're on here bitching about Christians...smh

benefactor
06-10-2015, 07:17 PM
Damn man...that's crazy. Glad you and your family got out safely and are ok.

ChumpDumper
06-10-2015, 07:25 PM
Eyup.

Heard a lot of police/fire sirens which we usually ignore, since we live close to a highway. We were all sound asleep at about 4:30am. Sirens didn't go away.

Wife poked head out of door and saw some water out at curb, about normal for a heavy rain, but heard police loudspeakers saying "evacuate the area". She came back in, woke me up. I got up pretty much immediately, got kids up, then got dressed.

Grabbed vital papers, yanked all the cables out of the computer, and stuck it into a garbage bag due to the rain. Opened door and found the front lawn was under a foot and a half of water. Probably ten minutes or less since wife looked.

Ran out to wife's hatchback, threw stuff in back, then ran back inside shouting at family to drop everything else and go. Wife was confused, because, in her head, the water was still out at the curb. When she saw the water lapping over the first step of the stoop, she realized it was time to go.

Grabbed the 8 year old very tightly, and held on to 12 year olds hand. Got them in car, which was filling up with water, jumped in and got it started. Turned around slowly, going with flow of water, and managed to make a turn down street towards highway which was higher ground. Got out of flood water with probably a few minutes to spare. Water was pretty much at the headlight level.

Not sure where to go, headed toward university which sits on a hill. Ended up in parking garage, drained the 4 inches of water out of car.

Went to evac center to get news. Not really any, but we did see the people who didn't make it out and slept through the sirens. They arrived at evac center in the back of dump trucks in their pajamas.

Went to Target, to get dry clothes, since we had nothing but the wet stuff we had on when we left.

They let us back in about 11am or so. To be safe, I left wife and kids on high ground and walked in. Street was muddy, and you could see where the dump truck had backed up to someone's house, due to the foot-deep furrows in the yard.

Found my car had floated into neighbors yard. Opened door and found it was a silty mess. Scared a lizard that was in it under the seat.

Opened door to house, a pier and beam.. and no visible water damage. Smelled odd.

Stepped on carpet... SQUISH. 90% of house was hit, with water soaking carpet and padding. Laundry room, which was a step down, was a muddy mess, as was all of the clothes we had stacked down there as we were getting ready for laundry day.

Neighbors on slabs got about 1.5 to 2 feet of water in their houses, including the poor college kids who lived next door. Checked on their cats for them, let them know they were ok. All sitting up on furniture meowing for help. Figured they were fine and left.

Walked back out, found our way around stalled cars and dropped her off. Sat there for a few minutes thinking. "ok, now what?" Car is a loss...fuck it, let insurance deal with it. Anything on the floor was soaking up the nasty mucky water from the carpet. I knew we would need some place to put it, and to stage shit.

Went to closest storage unit, and found ONE guy had beat me there. Turns out to be a really good decision, as they all rented out in the day or two that followed. Older guy lived a block closer to river. We both got the largest units we could. Computers were down, but clerk handed me paperwork to fill out, and I promised I would get cash and return. Had to drive 20 miles, but got cash, and two large tarps that turned out to be worth their weight in gold from Academy.

Got unit, with lock. Old guy got the ONE truck they had for new unit rentals. I was nice to him, though, despite being disappointed, since I might have to suck up to him and ask for help or use of the truck.

Set out the tarps on the front lawn, and got working with kids and wife. Dumped clothes on tarps, hosed them off, since the water was still going. Turns out the shitty rental house we bitched about for years because it just had window unit A/Cs, but was cheap and let us pay off a lot of bills, was not a bad deal. We had water and functioning air conditioning. Most of the neighborhood didn't. Ground level condenser units were often not there.

Started packing everything as fast as possible. Co-worker showed up the first day, with his college age boy. FUCK YEAH. Owe them a lot, as the muscle was needed. Ex-boss showed up with truck, and we got a fair amount out to the unit the first day. Thank god it was memorial day and a lot of people had the day off.

The following days were exhausting. 18 hour days of packing carrying, loading, unloading, trying to save everything. Couldn't stop to help neighbors much, as we had to get ourselves set.

Volunteers started showing up at the next day. First it was a survey team for what turns out to be a Billy Graham charity. Older people, asking what was needed. What was needed was young healthy people to move shit out of houses.

Due to location on our block, with a slight widening of street, our house was a natural place to put dumpsters. After the dumpsters... Mennonites. Surreal. They parked a camping trailer on our lawn, after speaking to us, and the management company representing the owners of our rental house, and set up a kitchen across the street. We let them hook up to our electricity, and water.

Nice people to a person. Gave them nopalitos, and hot sauce out of cupboard. ROFL. They were game to try cactus.

Overall lucky. Everybody safe. Staying in crappy rental let us pay down bills, and we turned in the notice to vacate to management company day before flood, as we are having our first house built. New house was closer to river that flooded, but higher up and didn't flood. Move in is on the 18th.

Lost car which sucked. Was going to hold on to that sucker for another 5 years while we continue to sock away money. Staying with friend of wife for a few weeks. Management company was cool.

One thing I did was ripped out the stinky carpet and padding as we emptied rooms. Got it all out in about 3 days. Not my house, but it earned me a lot of goodwill from management company. Fucking house owner never called to see if his tenants were ok, so he can suck it. Asshole didn't have flood insurance, so I don't feel sorry for him. We didn't have to clean the house and we got our full damage deposit back. Spent that on rental car already.

Neighbors though are stuck. Nice blue collar neighborhood, with older retirees and a few people on disability, based on the wheelchair ramps down the block. Went back on weekend to see if they needed any help, helped Mennonites pack up, and politely refused the Jesus stuff they tried to hand me.

One of the charities did help us out. A seminary student named Justin, and his wife, helped us toward the end with some stuff. They gave us a bible, after signing it. I accepted it graciously, and thanked them.

Anyhoo.. that's it so far. Going back this weekend to check on neighbors again.Damn, sorry that happened but glad it wasn't worse.

Jesus was certainly watching over you and only partially fucked you over -- probably because your blasphemous posts here are so polite.

DJR210
06-10-2015, 08:07 PM
Jesus was certainly watching over you and only partially fucked you over -- probably because your blasphemous posts here are so polite.

:lol

DJR210
06-10-2015, 08:08 PM
Crazy story.. the floods are a bitch, and don't just happen to black people.

RandomGuy
06-11-2015, 09:38 PM
Damn RG

All of that happens to you, Christians show up to help you out and you're on here bitching about Christians...smh

I am grateful, goober. I was gracious and courteous. I even let them all pray for me, when they asked. It means little, but makes them feel better.

As I said though, despite their desire to help me, they were hoping to lure me into the fold by taking advantage of my tragedy, and perceived emotional vulnerability.

Don't you find that a bit shitty?

ploto
06-11-2015, 10:55 PM
I feel bad for people going through a catastrophe, but I am having trouble feeling bad for them financially when they refuse to spend the money for flood insurance for their $750,000 house. Now these small government, wealthy Republicans who oppose food stamps, school lunch programs, and healthcare for the poor want FEMA to bail them out.

SnakeBoy
06-12-2015, 01:21 AM
I am grateful, goober. I was gracious and courteous. I even let them all pray for me, when they asked. It means little, but makes them feel better.

As I said though, despite their desire to help me, they were hoping to lure me into the fold by taking advantage of my tragedy, and perceived emotional vulnerability.

Don't you find that a bit shitty?

You would have preferred they help you at no charge and keep their mouths shut...yeah that's a little shitty. Why didn't you refuse their help and waited for the atheist groups to help you out?

HI-FI
06-12-2015, 02:08 AM
You would have preferred they help you at no charge and keep their mouths shut...yeah that's a little shitty. Why didn't you refuse their help and waited for the atheist groups to help you out?
:lol

RandomGuy
06-12-2015, 11:37 AM
Damn man...that's crazy. Glad you and your family got out safely and are ok.

Me too. We are safe, so now it is just a cool story for the most part.

RandomGuy
06-12-2015, 11:38 AM
Damn, sorry that happened but glad it wasn't worse.

Jesus was certainly watching over you and only partially fucked you over -- probably because your blasphemous posts here are so polite.

That is my take, heh.

RandomGuy
06-12-2015, 12:02 PM
You would have preferred they help you at no charge and keep their mouths shut...yeah that's a little shitty. Why didn't you refuse their help and waited for the atheist groups to help you out?

I guess you are welcome to yet another fucktarded opinion, based more on your own biases than reality. Not your first, and won't be your last.

That said, it wasn't really the case that the help was offered contingent on something. Along the way, after some conversation I was offered "bible based counseling", and got the very distinct impression they thought I needed some when I very politely declined. They were good about it, so I didn't feel the need to be a jerk.

To answer your question: help was offered, and accepted without condition. Offering was the right thing to do, and I felt it would have been rude to outright refuse, just because of the persons religious beliefs or partial religious motivation.

Do you think I should have refused the offer to help? Would you have been that rude and obnoxious?

cantthinkofanything
06-12-2015, 12:07 PM
I guess you are welcome to yet another fucktarded opinion, based more on your own biases than reality. Not your first, and won't be your last.

That said, it wasn't really the case that the help was offered contingent on something. Along the way, after some conversation I was offered "bible based counseling", and got the very distinct impression they thought I needed some when I very politely declined. They were good about it, so I didn't feel the need to be a jerk.

To answer your question: help was offered, and accepted without condition. Offering was the right thing to do, and I felt it would have been rude to outright refuse, just because of the persons religious beliefs or partial religious motivation.

Do you think I should have refused the offer to help? Would you have been that rude and obnoxious?

Your situation sucks...no doubt. Sorry you had to go through it.

But you come off sounding like a pompous ass imo. You couldn't just say these people helped you without denigrating their beliefs and questioning their motives.

RandomGuy
06-12-2015, 12:29 PM
Your situation sucks...no doubt. Sorry you had to go through it.

But you come off sounding like a pompous ass imo. You couldn't just say these people helped you without denigrating their beliefs and questioning their motives.

Partially I could buy that, but I would point out that I don't need to question their motives, the Billy Graham people were fairly upfront about it, if you read the happy "conversion" they posted on their website.

To be fair, you and Snakeboy have something of a point, I could have used a phrase other than "magic hope bullshit" to describe someone trying to indoctrinate me into a religion. Mixed bag that. What is the proper reaction to that?

In person I am very polite. I would not say that to someone trying to do that, especially if they aren't being pushy about it, which they weren't. I post that here, because it is what I think. I worry a bit less about offending, and more about honesty.

(edit)

To be clear the motives of the people what showed up were pretty obviously merely to help people in need. The overall organization, though added another layer to that of the actual volunteers, especially in view of how they presented the help on their website.

RandomGuy
06-12-2015, 12:34 PM
Your situation sucks...no doubt. Sorry you had to go through it.


And: Thank you. :)

Wife says I forget that occasionally. A bit absentminded I am.

cantthinkofanything
06-12-2015, 12:34 PM
Partially I could buy that, but I would point out that I don't need to question their motives, the Billy Graham people were fairly upfront about it, if you read the happy "conversion" they posted on their website.

To be fair, you and Snakeboy have something of a point, I could have used a phrase other than "magic hope bullshit" to describe someone trying to indoctrinate me into a religion. Mixed bag that. What is the proper reaction to that?

In person I am very polite. I would not say that to someone trying to do that, especially if they aren't being pushy about it, which they weren't. I post that here, because it is what I think. I worry a bit less about offending, and more about honesty.

No...I hear you. It is Spurstalk after all. But it would have been refreshing to just hear you say you appreciated their help regardless of their motives. Instead it got turned into the Atheist vs. Believer argument again. In any event, glad you and the family are safe.

RandomGuy
06-12-2015, 12:37 PM
No...I hear you. It is Spurstalk after all. But it would have been refreshing to just hear you say you appreciated their help regardless of their motives. Instead it got turned into the Atheist vs. Believer argument again. In any event, glad you and the family are safe.

I do appreciate it, and perhaps you are right about that, my only real intention was to note it in passing. Ah well. That is the nature of the internet. The things you think about least sometimes are the things people react to most.

101A
06-12-2015, 04:12 PM
I am grateful, goober. I was gracious and courteous. I even let them all pray for me, when they asked. It means little, but makes them feel better.

As I said though, despite their desire to help me, they were hoping to lure me into the fold by taking advantage of my tragedy, and perceived emotional vulnerability.

Don't you find that a bit shitty?

I understand your cynicism, but it probably is misplaced. I have been in congregations that send out help missions. When the call goes out, and the instructions are given - to an event, the purpose is to lend assistance, NOT to convert. Now, the people who often volunteer are some of the most, um, energetic and enthusiastic. What you experienced with them evangelizing, such as it was, was probably just who those people are all the time, not just when people are in need. They take the Great Commission seriously, and really, truly believe that all people, "should know the love an salvation of Jesus Christ.". They are not trying to get over on you, they are, seriously, from their point of view, trying to save you. But again, they are happy to help, and will be back again if need be - and will help you again.
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Even though you are going to Hell:p:

101A
06-12-2015, 04:14 PM
To be clear the motives of the people what showed up were pretty obviously merely to help people in need. The overall organization, though added another layer to that of the actual volunteers, especially in view of how they presented the help on their website.


Just read this; might temper some of my previous post....might not, but got to go.

RandomGuy
06-14-2015, 11:03 AM
I understand your cynicism, but it probably is misplaced. I have been in congregations that send out help missions. When the call goes out, and the instructions are given - to an event, the purpose is to lend assistance, NOT to convert. Now, the people who often volunteer are some of the most, um, energetic and enthusiastic. What you experienced with them evangelizing, such as it was, was probably just who those people are all the time, not just when people are in need. They take the Great Commission seriously, and really, truly believe that all people, "should know the love an salvation of Jesus Christ.". They are not trying to get over on you, they are, seriously, from their point of view, trying to save you. But again, they are happy to help, and will be back again if need be - and will help you again.
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Even though you are going to Hell:p:

Well, I *did* stick around and talk to a few of the mennonites. After a spell they did ask if I needed any "counseling", but that was more in a social context, rather than in the context of what they came out to do, i.e. offer food.

benefactor
06-15-2015, 12:11 PM
Welp...here we go again. Projected five day rainfall totals from the incoming tropical system.

http://icons.wxug.com/hurricane/2015/wpc-5day-precip-12Z-6.15.15.jpg

cantthinkofanything
06-15-2015, 01:00 PM
Welp...here we go again. Projected five day rainfall totals from the incoming tropical system.

http://icons.wxug.com/hurricane/2015/wpc-5day-precip-12Z-6.15.15.jpg


Amazing that the heart of this system is going to cut right through the areas that received the brunt of that last one. At least in Texas.

Robz4000
06-15-2015, 02:05 PM
Eyup.

Heard a lot of police/fire sirens which we usually ignore, since we live close to a highway. We were all sound asleep at about 4:30am. Sirens didn't go away.

Wife poked head out of door and saw some water out at curb, about normal for a heavy rain, but heard police loudspeakers saying "evacuate the area". She came back in, woke me up. I got up pretty much immediately, got kids up, then got dressed.

Grabbed vital papers, yanked all the cables out of the computer, and stuck it into a garbage bag due to the rain. Opened door and found the front lawn was under a foot and a half of water. Probably ten minutes or less since wife looked.

Ran out to wife's hatchback, threw stuff in back, then ran back inside shouting at family to drop everything else and go. Wife was confused, because, in her head, the water was still out at the curb. When she saw the water lapping over the first step of the stoop, she realized it was time to go.

Grabbed the 8 year old very tightly, and held on to 12 year olds hand. Got them in car, which was filling up with water, jumped in and got it started. Turned around slowly, going with flow of water, and managed to make a turn down street towards highway which was higher ground. Got out of flood water with probably a few minutes to spare. Water was pretty much at the headlight level.

Not sure where to go, headed toward university which sits on a hill. Ended up in parking garage, drained the 4 inches of water out of car.

Went to evac center to get news. Not really any, but we did see the people who didn't make it out and slept through the sirens. They arrived at evac center in the back of dump trucks in their pajamas.

Went to Target, to get dry clothes, since we had nothing but the wet stuff we had on when we left.

They let us back in about 11am or so. To be safe, I left wife and kids on high ground and walked in. Street was muddy, and you could see where the dump truck had backed up to someone's house, due to the foot-deep furrows in the yard.

Found my car had floated into neighbors yard. Opened door and found it was a silty mess. Scared a lizard that was in it under the seat.

Opened door to house, a pier and beam.. and no visible water damage. Smelled odd.

Stepped on carpet... SQUISH. 90% of house was hit, with water soaking carpet and padding. Laundry room, which was a step down, was a muddy mess, as was all of the clothes we had stacked down there as we were getting ready for laundry day.

Neighbors on slabs got about 1.5 to 2 feet of water in their houses, including the poor college kids who lived next door. Checked on their cats for them, let them know they were ok. All sitting up on furniture meowing for help. Figured they were fine and left.

Walked back out, found our way around stalled cars and dropped her off. Sat there for a few minutes thinking. "ok, now what?" Car is a loss...fuck it, let insurance deal with it. Anything on the floor was soaking up the nasty mucky water from the carpet. I knew we would need some place to put it, and to stage shit.

Went to closest storage unit, and found ONE guy had beat me there. Turns out to be a really good decision, as they all rented out in the day or two that followed. Older guy lived a block closer to river. We both got the largest units we could. Computers were down, but clerk handed me paperwork to fill out, and I promised I would get cash and return. Had to drive 20 miles, but got cash, and two large tarps that turned out to be worth their weight in gold from Academy.

Got unit, with lock. Old guy got the ONE truck they had for new unit rentals. I was nice to him, though, despite being disappointed, since I might have to suck up to him and ask for help or use of the truck.

Set out the tarps on the front lawn, and got working with kids and wife. Dumped clothes on tarps, hosed them off, since the water was still going. Turns out the shitty rental house we bitched about for years because it just had window unit A/Cs, but was cheap and let us pay off a lot of bills, was not a bad deal. We had water and functioning air conditioning. Most of the neighborhood didn't. Ground level condenser units were often not there.

Started packing everything as fast as possible. Co-worker showed up the first day, with his college age boy. FUCK YEAH. Owe them a lot, as the muscle was needed. Ex-boss showed up with truck, and we got a fair amount out to the unit the first day. Thank god it was memorial day and a lot of people had the day off.

The following days were exhausting. 18 hour days of packing carrying, loading, unloading, trying to save everything. Couldn't stop to help neighbors much, as we had to get ourselves set.

Volunteers started showing up at the next day. First it was a survey team for what turns out to be a Billy Graham charity. Older people, asking what was needed. What was needed was young healthy people to move shit out of houses.

Due to location on our block, with a slight widening of street, our house was a natural place to put dumpsters. After the dumpsters... Mennonites. Surreal. They parked a camping trailer on our lawn, after speaking to us, and the management company representing the owners of our rental house, and set up a kitchen across the street. We let them hook up to our electricity, and water.

Nice people to a person. Gave them nopalitos, and hot sauce out of cupboard. ROFL. They were game to try cactus.

Overall lucky. Everybody safe. Staying in crappy rental let us pay down bills, and we turned in the notice to vacate to management company day before flood, as we are having our first house built. New house was closer to river that flooded, but higher up and didn't flood. Move in is on the 18th.

Lost car which sucked. Was going to hold on to that sucker for another 5 years while we continue to sock away money. Staying with friend of wife for a few weeks. Management company was cool.

One thing I did was ripped out the stinky carpet and padding as we emptied rooms. Got it all out in about 3 days. Not my house, but it earned me a lot of goodwill from management company. Fucking house owner never called to see if his tenants were ok, so he can suck it. Asshole didn't have flood insurance, so I don't feel sorry for him. We didn't have to clean the house and we got our full damage deposit back. Spent that on rental car already.

Neighbors though are stuck. Nice blue collar neighborhood, with older retirees and a few people on disability, based on the wheelchair ramps down the block. Went back on weekend to see if they needed any help, helped Mennonites pack up, and politely refused the Jesus stuff they tried to hand me.

One of the charities did help us out. A seminary student named Justin, and his wife, helped us toward the end with some stuff. They gave us a bible, after signing it. I accepted it graciously, and thanked them.

Anyhoo.. that's it so far. Going back this weekend to check on neighbors again.

Good to hear y'all made it out safe and sound bruv. Sorry to hear about all the damage and your car.

boutons_deux
06-15-2015, 02:18 PM
http://www.accuweather.com/en/us/san-antonio-tx/78205/june-weather/351198

boutons_deux
06-15-2015, 04:47 PM
'Brown ocean' effect may bedevil soggy Texas as storm nears

The historic rainfall that inundated Texas in May continues to leave the soil saturated and rivers engorged, but a scientist involved in a NASA-funded research project says it also could strengthen a storm moving inland from the Gulf of Mexico.

A broad area of low pressure that developed near the Yucatan Peninsula could brew nasty weather along the Texas and Louisiana coasts and inland. These low-pressure systems can become tropical storms that gather power from the warm waters of the ocean, and then weaken once they move over land.

But the research has found some storms can actually strengthen over land by drawing from the evaporation of abundant soil moisture, a phenomenon known as the "brown ocean" effect, according to Marshall Shepherd, director of atmospheric sciences at the University of Georgia.

"All the things a hurricane likes over the ocean is what we have over land right now," said Shepherd, one of the principals who conducted the research.

http://phys.org/news/2015-06-brown-ocean-effect-bedevil-soggy.html

djohn2oo8
06-15-2015, 09:21 PM
Amazing that the heart of this system is going to cut right through the areas that received the brunt of that last one. At least in Texas.

Houston bout to get bent over again. I commute to downtown, projected rainfall in Pearland is 10 inches.

ChumpDumper
06-15-2015, 09:35 PM
Damn.

http://images.citysearch.net/assets/imgdb/e7/66/c8/69/8e/f6/2d/5b/3c/6d/2b/3a/67/57/c2/8f/7/3/8/0/4667380.JPG

XyuU9u_vrSY

Dude should've taken his jacket.

benefactor
06-16-2015, 07:13 AM
Getting ready to move inland. Stay safe everyone. Would hate to see any of you get handed the Darwin Award over the next couple of days.

djohn2oo8
06-16-2015, 07:29 AM
Getting ready to move inland. Stay safe everyone. Would hate to see any of you get handed the Darwin Award over the next couple of days.

:lol stay safe as well.

baseline bum
06-16-2015, 08:00 AM
:lol stay safe as well.

Either that, or grab some good loot before one time starts shooting.

RandomGuy
11-04-2015, 12:44 PM
Went back to the old neighborhood (moved out after may flood), and it got flooded again this past Friday. Holy fuck.

Very heartbreaking to talk to the old neighbors who stayed. Both said they would be trying to sell their house.

On the bad side, the shitty house we lived in didn't really get properly renovated, and the landlord suckered some kid into renting it, without repairing the mold damage in the other side of the duplex. :ihit

Probably going to be complaining to the city about that.