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Wind died down and now it's raining again. At least it's not monsooning......yet.
This weather is some BIBLICAL PROPORTION stuff going on right now...
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Hang on tight Ed, and any other members in the storms path !!
Hopefully it'll save the heavy stuff for a couple weeks.... I'm gonna be working at a facility in the area this coming week & I don't really need any monsoon level crap.....
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Always a 10 day forecast here.....but very seldom right lol
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Well we made it after 399 potty breaks, actually got here Around 7. Stayed ahead of the storms somehow. Ran into a family at the gas station that stayed in Nashville they said they tried to leave at midnight and were flooded in.
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Does this happen often there, Ed?
I have considered relocating there someday but uhhh.....
80 degrees here today and beautiful. Every region has their peculiarities regarding the weather and climate. Some are scared by our risk of fires and earthquakes. I've never been near an earthquake and don't live where fires usually happen. The idea of "Florida type" hurricanes or tornadoes every year is a bit unsettling.
I have considered relocating there someday but uhhh.....
80 degrees here today and beautiful. Every region has their peculiarities regarding the weather and climate. Some are scared by our risk of fires and earthquakes. I've never been near an earthquake and don't live where fires usually happen. The idea of "Florida type" hurricanes or tornadoes every year is a bit unsettling.
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Well, it's over...
A record-breaking thing, the sort you don't want to break. As many of you know by now,
there were a couple dozen tornados spawned out of this front, some coming in the dead of night.
More than a few folks have died from the storm at this point; a lot more are homeless from it.
I'm having a hard time finding any humor in it, honestly.
Yes, it happens "all the time" and usually, it's somewhere else - but no, it doesn't get any less awful
when it does. I did a lot of praying for folks today...
I haven't slept since night before last, a result of my being one of those "human barometers" that
extreme low air pressure events causes me metric craptons of additional pain - so I heard and saw every
wave of the storm and all it brought to bear, which was formidable.
We set a local record for rainfall here - over 8" in 24 hours, a number as an amateur weather "bug" I can't
even get my head around, except for the fact I actually witnessed it.
I've never seen rain like that in my life - nor the lightning show that appeared in the middle of the night,
where continuous lightning strikes hit out here in the immediate surrounding foothills for over 15 minutes
straight.
Unbelievable - yes, "biblical".
My spending 7 hours "in the bucket" today on my little 30hp 4wd diesel tractor was the 3rd time in as many
days that I spent repairing the little one lane road out here that serves our neck of the woods, plus our own
1/4 mile long driveway that comes up the ridge here.
Yes, it's officially a county road - but they aren't coming, at least not for a week or more, so...
I'm actually the youngest out here on this road plus I have the ability and tractor to do the job; that makes
me the default "road department", at least around here.
(That 8" of rain was on top of each of two previous days' precursor storms, each of which were isolated and
destructive).
As tired and sore as I was (and still am), all I could think of when I was out there grinding away again was
those poor souls in other places who never saw this coming, who lost their loved ones or their own lives...
sobering ****, right there.
Here's a couple pics of some of our own road carnage - keep in mind, the pics "flatten" the 3D effect of
what you see. The washout was almost 3 feet deep in parts, and that's on a 25 year old well based road:
I was up to my waist down there at the bottom. Took a while to gather things up again; there
was no driving on the road in anything other than the tractor - and it was up to the grille at times.
Yee ha!
Again, the pics don't do it justice. See the riprap at the left? The top of that used to be level with the road....
My supervisor was on scene to keep me on task as well:
Sasha the Cairne Terrier, my steadfast companion for 11+ years now. Storms terrify her, a result of her
being thrown out into the wild the first year of her life by some ********....
but she's right there with me the whole job, EVERY job, without fail.
I finally got everything put back together several hours later, including clearing the bridge down by the
highway (built to 50 year flood event height, yet totally submerged this morning) and I finally was able
to call the job done when I knew all the elderly folks out here could get in and out (as could emergency
vehicles, if needed).
In the end, it'll probably cost me a grand or so for gravel and such eventually - but everyone out here
got their debris cleared, nobody got hurt and we were blessed nothing worse happened.
Oh - and you guys talking about getting metal roofs in some of the posts?
I HEARTILY concur - I built everything out here with them and the house itself, when it came replacement
roof time a few years ago, got the same as well. Zero damage to report from all of these storms as a result.
Wife and pup are safe, Fred is safe and any property damage has been mitigated.
I've never feared flooding up here at 1700' elevation (by intent!), but you still gotta get down off here
sooner or later to deal with the rest of life...
Again, prayers for all those who didn't fare quite as well. Awful stuff for sure.
A record-breaking thing, the sort you don't want to break. As many of you know by now,
there were a couple dozen tornados spawned out of this front, some coming in the dead of night.
More than a few folks have died from the storm at this point; a lot more are homeless from it.
I'm having a hard time finding any humor in it, honestly.
Yes, it happens "all the time" and usually, it's somewhere else - but no, it doesn't get any less awful
when it does. I did a lot of praying for folks today...
I haven't slept since night before last, a result of my being one of those "human barometers" that
extreme low air pressure events causes me metric craptons of additional pain - so I heard and saw every
wave of the storm and all it brought to bear, which was formidable.
We set a local record for rainfall here - over 8" in 24 hours, a number as an amateur weather "bug" I can't
even get my head around, except for the fact I actually witnessed it.
I've never seen rain like that in my life - nor the lightning show that appeared in the middle of the night,
where continuous lightning strikes hit out here in the immediate surrounding foothills for over 15 minutes
straight.
Unbelievable - yes, "biblical".
My spending 7 hours "in the bucket" today on my little 30hp 4wd diesel tractor was the 3rd time in as many
days that I spent repairing the little one lane road out here that serves our neck of the woods, plus our own
1/4 mile long driveway that comes up the ridge here.
Yes, it's officially a county road - but they aren't coming, at least not for a week or more, so...
I'm actually the youngest out here on this road plus I have the ability and tractor to do the job; that makes
me the default "road department", at least around here.
(That 8" of rain was on top of each of two previous days' precursor storms, each of which were isolated and
destructive).
As tired and sore as I was (and still am), all I could think of when I was out there grinding away again was
those poor souls in other places who never saw this coming, who lost their loved ones or their own lives...
sobering ****, right there.
Here's a couple pics of some of our own road carnage - keep in mind, the pics "flatten" the 3D effect of
what you see. The washout was almost 3 feet deep in parts, and that's on a 25 year old well based road:
I was up to my waist down there at the bottom. Took a while to gather things up again; there
was no driving on the road in anything other than the tractor - and it was up to the grille at times.
Yee ha!
Again, the pics don't do it justice. See the riprap at the left? The top of that used to be level with the road....
My supervisor was on scene to keep me on task as well:
Sasha the Cairne Terrier, my steadfast companion for 11+ years now. Storms terrify her, a result of her
being thrown out into the wild the first year of her life by some ********....
but she's right there with me the whole job, EVERY job, without fail.
I finally got everything put back together several hours later, including clearing the bridge down by the
highway (built to 50 year flood event height, yet totally submerged this morning) and I finally was able
to call the job done when I knew all the elderly folks out here could get in and out (as could emergency
vehicles, if needed).
In the end, it'll probably cost me a grand or so for gravel and such eventually - but everyone out here
got their debris cleared, nobody got hurt and we were blessed nothing worse happened.
Oh - and you guys talking about getting metal roofs in some of the posts?
I HEARTILY concur - I built everything out here with them and the house itself, when it came replacement
roof time a few years ago, got the same as well. Zero damage to report from all of these storms as a result.
Wife and pup are safe, Fred is safe and any property damage has been mitigated.
I've never feared flooding up here at 1700' elevation (by intent!), but you still gotta get down off here
sooner or later to deal with the rest of life...
Again, prayers for all those who didn't fare quite as well. Awful stuff for sure.
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Nashville, being in the "flatlands" of the state, got serious flooding. Terrible stuff.
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Well, considering our county hasn't had a recorded tornado in over 50 years, I'd say "no".
This storm was a regional thing - and in fact, other than the record-setting rainfall, our topography no
doubt saved our asses yet again in that regard.
I like to say "these ridges protect" - because they do.
Violent weather is typically broken up by all the ridges and valleys.
We don't get tornados, hurricanes, earthquakes of any destructive levels (although adjoining areas
do get tremors from time to time).
Again, this was a true 50-year event - and by the time they're done tallying up everything, maybe
even worse.
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They get ALL the natural disasters out there every year - floods, fires, landslides, earthquakes, imploding governors...Dang KD, it sounds like you're looking for a safe space.
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By this afternoon, things had settled down enough for me to take a parting shot through the woods looking back towards the highway at what is usually a little creek near our little road:
The water was up to the highway at daybreak this morning (I know, I was down there then).
Again, the pic "flattens" things out quite a bit - that's about 60' elevation down from where I was sitting on the tractor...but you can see all the debris that had been washed up the embankment towards me here.
One thing about living in the mountains - water drains away quickly, which sometimes ain't good.
The water was up to the highway at daybreak this morning (I know, I was down there then).
Again, the pic "flattens" things out quite a bit - that's about 60' elevation down from where I was sitting on the tractor...but you can see all the debris that had been washed up the embankment towards me here.
One thing about living in the mountains - water drains away quickly, which sometimes ain't good.
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First one in March for you folks since like 1955, eh?
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Had a little sleet last night and it's still windy. First day of spring here though.....the ducks laid the first eggs of the year this morning!
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Y'all got a gorgeous place up there.
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It's getting greener by the minute.
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At the risk of sending this to the Pol Section, Bill Gates, that asshole, is funding research into blocking the suns rays ...in case "Climate change" becomes 'Too Warm", so they can cool things down...lol.
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When we bought it in 2012 you couldn't even see the front of the house, the flower beds had grown higher than the eaves. The back was the same with vines and bushes out of control and 10 feet tall. I reclaimed 10 feet of yard around the edges in the back. We have planted dozens of trees and many bushes since then. Fenced about 5 acres. Built a barn, added to it, built a feeding shelter, a corral, increased the mowable yard area by 50%...etc,,,
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