At a meeting last night we were told to expect 10 feet of water at my house by mid June.It has never been flooded where I'm at before ,supposedly a 500 year event. At least I'll know how to handle it the next time!
Sorry to hear about that. Make sure you weight down any stairs with sandbags or big rocks or they will be gone. We just had 7 feet of water in our lower cabin on the Mississippi river, Albany, Ill. across from Clinton , Iowa. Had to powerwash everything, and shovel out mud.
There was that guy on the news that dug a moat around his house. He was the only house in his neighborhood that wasn't underwater. I would rent a back hoe. Seemed like a great idea to me if you know what's coming
Thanks ,we are selling like no tomorrow, wait there is no tomorrow. I hate to get rid of all the shop equiptment, it takes too many years to accumulate this junk .We really love this place but at the end of the day ,its all just stuff, it really don't mean much. thanks again.
I am surrounded by concrete, 7 inchs thick,If it comes in at 10 foot that would be a lot of digging. Thanks anyway.
yeah , that guy that build the levee around his home had farm fields surrounding him to pull the earth from. dam Joe, where you going to?
Can you get a few of those POD things and pack up everything valuable and have them store them for a month??
how is a moat going to help if the water is 7' over the land level? maybe dig a moat and use the dirt to build a "dike" would be mo' better. I'm sorry to hear about all of the devastation in the midwest.
Good luck, Pierre, Dakota Dunes and Sioux City are going to get it also. The Corps is realeasing water all along the River. So much water being released from Oahe Dam that a giant whirlpool is spinning like a bath drain.
At least that will give you time to find storage on high ground and move everything to it that might get wet.
I live in Bismarck, ND and were preparing for the Missouri river to flood this week. They are letting out record amounts of water from the Garrison Dam which is coming from Montana with all their heavy rains and the snow pack in the mountains still melting isnt helping matter much either. They predict the water to be around for a few months because the Corp of Engineers will be letting out water from the dam every week until it starts dropping in the dam itself. They are finishing up levy's to hold it back this week. My shop is a couple miles from the river and we will see water, how much, dont know. My shop was built on a 100 year flood plain and this is suppose to be the 100 year flood!
I heard like 4 million sand bags have been filled already and their trying for another million by Thursday. The only good thing out of this will be my house is far from the river so I'm save with that
10 Feet of water is just overkill man. Get you a truck and get out what you can.If worse come to worse screw the material things,get all your important documents together,get some cash out of the bank and No.1 get you and your family to a safer area.Good luck man and stay safe.
You got 'til mid june? Better start building a levee around your house. That's what I would do. Then if you get 10 Ft of water you'll have a house with a moat. Not often anyone get's that much warning. If you need to you can haul stuff down to my place in N MO and store it in my shed.
Problem here is the soil is so sandy around the river area, the houses that have dikes built around them will still have there basements flooded from ground water seeping in and everything left behind will be trashed, setting in water for maybe 2 months!
Yes, all along the river may be 10 feet under for the bulk of the summer. As a race we are stupid, always building next to bodies of water for convenience then thinking we can just dam it up and control Mother Nature. Good luck guys. We had our "safe" storage flooded in 07 as some of you may remember, I know what a pain it is.
Along those lines, I used ABF to move. They dropped off a semi trailer and I loaded it. They hauled it out. Better than leaving good stuff for the water....
There is not any storage available, nothing to rent to live in, I am putting all priorities to haveing a home and shop and toys will need to be sacrificed. thanks everyone.
Joe You are about 3.5 hours from my place up north. Plenty of storage there until you get settled. OK fellas sounds like a mission, who has time a truck and a trailer. Lets get Joe out of the river.
I'm sorry for the position you are finding yourself in.For those that don't know Joe Cool, they sold their home and moved to Hamburg a couple of years ago.They bought a comercial bank building and made it their home.The Army Corps of Engineers have said Hamburg will be under 10 feet of water from dam releases by next week.This will continue for a couple of months.Hamburg is not expected to survive as a town and people have been told to find other permanent housing.South Omaha Turds have property near Silver City.If you need storage space let me know.I'm sure Buck would let you store there.If my truck can be of assistance it's available.Good luck.
This happened to us this time last year in Middle Tennessee, May 1'st, and we never had a minutes warning. Just Kaboom and up to 50 feet of water in places water has never ever been before, ever ! Look at the pics from the GG event at Titan Stadium recently posted from a week ago. Water from the adjacent Cumberland river was probably 30 or 40 feet deep where those cars are pictured this time last year. It was not obviously visible to everyone, but me and my wife were continually spotting evidence that remained from that flood and we are still shocked. There are whole subdivisions that remain devastated and vacant today and I'm certain will have to be leveled by urban renewal. My heart goes out to you Joe and the tornado victims both in Joplin and all across the mid south recently. It stuns me to think of the lives lost just this year alone to weather. Must be a sign of the times........... Tom S. in Tn.
OK now there are two of us. A half a dozen more and we can make an easy day of it. Lets get joe out of the hole.
If all the places that rent containers and will drop them on the ground are taken, you can perhaps find a trucking company that will pull a empty container AND chassis (trailer) to your site. You'd have to lift or ramp things into the container since it would be ~ 3 feet off the ground. Then you'd need a place to help you take the container off the chassis, or just leave it on the chassis. A chassis alone should add about $10-$15/day to the container renting fees. But transportation companies may rent you a container cheaper than a 'pod' company, you'd need to call around and find a sympathetic person on the other end of the line to tell him what you want. Also there are 3 main container sizes, 20 & 40 foot "marine" containers that can go on ships, and 53 foot "domestic" containers (old ones are 48 foot) that can go on railroad cars - so check your needs; with shop stuff the main issue will be weight so the bigger containers may not help. It would mostly depend on availability in your area. If this sounds possible, look up trucking companies and see if any advertise "intermodal" haulage. Ask them what their daily rates are on for an 'empty' and how long you can keep it.
Just thought I'd give this thing a bounce. We have an opportunity to help someone before they loose everything for a change. If you can help before a disaster that is considered to be proactive, afterwards it is just damage control. We have two trucks offered and a couple of places to stach stuff until Joe lands on his feet again. Who else is in?
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