Flooding

**Ironside** · 01-12-2011, 00:08

Be safe. That's one massive flooding.

**Reenk Roink** · 01-12-2011, 02:18

Take care.

**Motep** · 01-12-2011, 03:12

Be well, pever. I hope you don't lose your home. Floods can be terrible beasties, but they eventually die.

**pevergreen** · 01-12-2011, 09:44

Originally Posted by Reenk Roink

Take care.

Reenk!

I'm safe. Staying with friends but power is out to 115k+ homes including this one. No idea when back.

**PershsNhpios** · 01-12-2011, 10:39

What gets my goat is those damned pillow-biters standing around filming rising water instead of assisting their fellow citizens in need.

There are videos on the television of rows of young men standing around in surf gear filming the torrents with seniors in the background trying to evacuate alone.

The weather has been rough as a Scot's breakfast out here in the central hills but we are all very sympathetic to our countrymen in the south-east.

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EDIT: Once again Fragony shows that he is a flying Dutchman.

**Beefy187** · 01-12-2011, 12:11

I hope your all safe

Sounds like things are going really bad there, but hope you'll pull through.

**Fragony** · 01-12-2011, 19:05

Originally Posted by pevergreen

Reenk!

I'm safe. Staying with friends but power is out to 115k+ homes including this one. No idea when back.

Have fun! Things like that really bond, out of solidarity we had the province of Limburg flooded http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/1298...1_limburg.html

**pevergreen** · 01-14-2011, 06:46

Hey guys, we've managed to move back home, but the ETA on restored power was an hour ago, its now been updated to midnight sunday.

The flood missed our house by about 50 cm. Reached 17m here. Back at friends place, they have power now, on the way here, entire streets went under...its horrible.

Elsewhere in this area, the lake feature where we live missed an entire street of like 40 houses by 5 cm...except one house. Poor guys...

**Hooahguy** · 01-14-2011, 07:29

Thats great news, Pever!
Sorry to hear about everybody elses house though.

**Andres** · 01-14-2011, 11:26

Originally Posted by pevergreen

The flood missed our house by about 50 cm.

Thnx for letting us know you're allright.

**Reenk Roink** · 01-15-2011, 17:54

Originally Posted by pevergreen

Hey guys, we've managed to move back home, but the ETA on restored power was an hour ago, its now been updated to midnight sunday.

The flood missed our house by about 50 cm. Reached 17m here. Back at friends place, they have power now, on the way here, entire streets went under...its horrible.

Elsewhere in this area, the lake feature where we live missed an entire street of like 40 houses by 5 cm...except one house. Poor guys...

Hahaha awesome.

Nature knows its place when it comes to you!

Sorry to hear about your neighbors though, hope all is bearable for them.

**pevergreen** · 01-16-2011, 05:17

Its getting better.

Its frustrating seeing the restoration of the power grid go by each day. Its slowly coming along a street, and last night streetlights on the same road as us, but 100m away, had power. We still don't.

The latest update we had said last night, then tonight, then wednesday afternoon (an entire week without power). Now its a blanket 'no ETA for anyone anywhere'.

We've had small surges of low power, enough to dimly power lights, but that ceased. While we were at my brothers last night, our neighbours had full power, but not when we came home 2 hours later.

We're still a lot better off than a lot of other people.