My shop is underwater!! Flooding in illinois

**** water.

 

I wasnt prepared for this, worse rain in chicago in 20 years.

 

What zman said about a pressure washer. Blast EVERYTHING!!!! There is so much **** in floodwater that you need it clean. We actually saved furniture last summer by getting on it with soap and a pressure washer. The Gibbs is a great idea as well, does UPS deliver by boat?

 

Awe man sorry.......

 

Are all of the loses covered, yours and the customers, how do you estimate the damage, who estimates the damage?
Just ****s........

 

just got hit a little on my farm in NW MN and part of my road is washed out of course I am the onley one in the county with a flooding problem so I am ignored

seems like land use has changed a lot of water run off paterns for all the places in the USA that have flooding during a big rain and run off, way too much damage from water in this country
and mostly imbicles trying to solve it and they are stealing the money to fix it and put it in their own pockets
after New Orleans we see how graft and corruption works and how much they prosecute

got a 5 ft dike on my farm and got that solved so far but a boat needs to have a big flood to launch
I hope damage is at minimum and clean up goes fast and you are flood free for a long time

 

I had about 2 inches of water in my shop Friday, then again Saturday. I'm not as bad off as you, only had 2 boxes of stuff, and one box of unbuilt vintage models get wet. Dean

 

Sorry to see and hear about all these problems with the flooding, that ****s! Hope you all come out of this with no or minimal losses. I always worry about that down here when a hurricane comes our way. Seems Mother Nature is upset about something!

 

man that is horrible

 

sorry dude it floods at our shop every couple years. let me know if you need anything. better hurry up and get that bare bone coupe done for the pileup! don't want to see there whole club wearing dresses. later drew

 

Man that ****!

 

That really ****s, we got a bit of water but not that bad! Billy if there is anything we can help with just ask. I'm just down the road, but you might have to take the long way with all the closed roads. Is the water gone now?

 

Is the water down this morning?

~Jason

 

That ****s.
And to think I was *****ing about a small roof leak in my shop over the weekend.
All I ended up with was a puddle about 4'X8'..still enough to piss you off..but nothing like that.
Good luck with the clean up.

 

That ****s big ones! Hope the water comes down today.

 

That brings back some bad memories. Water in the shop makes a mess. At least its not salt water, so hopefully no corrosion issues for you. Is it on the way down now?

 

You need one of these on your street ...

Being from the DEEP South and close to the ocean ... I never thought about flooding in your area. Hope everything turns out OK and the water recedes ...

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so it has stopped raining over here in Iowa........so hopefully you wont get anymore.

Was all this crazy rain due to the Hurricane?

hope the cleanup goes ok and no more flooding for you for a long while.

I did the Kalamazoo NSRA show this weekend and it rained non stop from Thurs night til ..........well........I guess it still might be raining there - I left Sunday about 5pm and it was still raining and some of the freeways were shut down due to flooding as well.

 

I would be in tears

 

Sorry Bobby.

Is the water still rising?

You guys up on the north side really got smacked. First the storms training on the warm front on Friday and Saturday. Then the remnants of the hurricane on Sunday combined to produce record rainfall. All the runoff is headed downstream and the Illinois River is rising and is expected to go higher in the next two days. I've been watching it in Morris and it's been rising about 1" per hour - that's around 2' per day. So the storms will still be affecting folks this week.

Is there anything we can do to help?

 

hi its kacy cyclebillys girlfriend, hes at the shop right now and the water only went down a couple inches in the parking lot.

 

man thats ****s *** big time
and i thought i had problems when my roof was leaking in 30 plus places
my heart goes out to you i would be losing it big time wish i could help some how

 

I'm really sorry to see this, Bobby. I'm watching the girls every night this week or I'd come up and help you... if I could even get there.

 

Lets hope it starts going down soon. Let me know about the weekend if you are cleaning up.

Adam.

 

Its gone down about 8" in the street since last night but we still have water in the shop and no where to put it, were hoping it will at least be out of the parking lot by morning so we can start pulling **** out and cleaning it. thanks everyone for the kind words and offers to help, i might need some..

 

Bobby, i just saw this. That ****s man!!

 

Man that really ****s!Kind of like my ultimate Nightmare,I really feel for you,did you have insurance?

 

Just saw this Bobby -- really sorry to hear about it. Hope the cleanup goes well, and the damage is minimal... Good luck.

JR

 

Bobby, I'm so sorry about this situation. I can't believe the water has not receded yet. Let us know when ya can get back in the shop. I'll be over to help too!

Joel

 

Kinda makes ya wish you had more lifts, huh?