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KevinD's Account Talk
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KevinD
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KevinD
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KevinD
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I don't but I'm gonna find out. It had to be a heck of a lot. It rained all night long Sunday night...
Any advice on dealing with the mud? :notrust:
Viva_La_Migra
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I wouldn't know anything about mud. It's been a while since we had rain!
Here's a little experiment. Tonight before going to bed, please pray for rain in San Diego California. Thank you.
KevinD
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Nope. No flood insurance.
The mortgage company notified us that they were not going to require that we have flood insurance any longer so we let it laps.
The pool is about 5 or 6 years old and we didn't even use it that much this summer. The water was deeper than the pool so the inflatable ring on top caused it to float over about 50 feet.
No damage to the house or contents...but there were 3 motorcycles, riding lawnmower, log splitter, tiller, DR Field and brush mower, 2 push mowers in that canvas garage in the distance. There was a bench grinder, angle grinder, OA torch and some other things with electric motors and such in and around the shed.
The mortgage company notified us that they were not going to require that we have flood insurance any longer so we let it laps.
The pool is about 5 or 6 years old and we didn't even use it that much this summer. The water was deeper than the pool so the inflatable ring on top caused it to float over about 50 feet.
No damage to the house or contents...but there were 3 motorcycles, riding lawnmower, log splitter, tiller, DR Field and brush mower, 2 push mowers in that canvas garage in the distance. There was a bench grinder, angle grinder, OA torch and some other things with electric motors and such in and around the shed.
KevinD
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Viva_La_Migra
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Hang in there. Good luck with the cleanup. You will definitely be in my prayers!
Viva_La_Migra
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Maybe we can shift the rain my way and let y'all dry out!On the list.
KevinD
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Minnow
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I grew up in North Georgia man so, I know what your floods are like (we never had damage 'cuz we were/are hillbillies that built on the side of mountains). Some of my less hillbilly relatives are going through your situation right now. When I was in Rome and those rivers had their "100 years" floods, alot of us college students cleaned up the campuses and nearby communities. Pretty fun actually. The easiest shovels to use are the high content manure shovels --- that doesn't help does it?
Some of the elderly folks in the community that had been through floods before wrapped up their pictures and important papers that had mud damage in plastic ziploc bags with the mud still on them and froze them in their freezers. They said that later on when the stuff was good and frozen, the ink wouldn't run off as bad and the pictures would clean up easier with dried up dirt rather than trying to clean up while the mud was warm and sticky. Seemed to make sense. Never saw the end results but I would at least try it on the stuff before chalking them up as gone forever. Not much to lose either way I guess.
Hopefully you can save the electronic tools and stuff by just sitting them to dry in a less humid room somewhere for about a week. My cousin in Baton Rouge (they know flooding too) saved some of her small electronics (iphones, handheld games, etc.) by boiling a bowl of rice and putting them in the bowl afterwards to draw the water out . I never saw the results to verify this but she swears by it. I'm sure if you google it (provided you still have internet access), you can find someone that has posted the instructions.
Good luck. Our prayers are with y'all....
Some of the elderly folks in the community that had been through floods before wrapped up their pictures and important papers that had mud damage in plastic ziploc bags with the mud still on them and froze them in their freezers. They said that later on when the stuff was good and frozen, the ink wouldn't run off as bad and the pictures would clean up easier with dried up dirt rather than trying to clean up while the mud was warm and sticky. Seemed to make sense. Never saw the end results but I would at least try it on the stuff before chalking them up as gone forever. Not much to lose either way I guess.
Hopefully you can save the electronic tools and stuff by just sitting them to dry in a less humid room somewhere for about a week. My cousin in Baton Rouge (they know flooding too) saved some of her small electronics (iphones, handheld games, etc.) by boiling a bowl of rice and putting them in the bowl afterwards to draw the water out . I never saw the results to verify this but she swears by it. I'm sure if you google it (provided you still have internet access), you can find someone that has posted the instructions.
Good luck. Our prayers are with y'all....
