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January 10, 2005
A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall
With all the snow melted and the four solid days of rain we received last week, our basement had some water damage. Nothing too serious, but enough to soak a carpet that Tony and I ripped up this weekend (thanks for your help, T!) Then it was on to the bleach scrubbing and the concrete patching for me. Fun weekend.
Keeping things in perspective, many folks in Cincinnati have had it much worse than us, let alone the incomparable devastation in other parts of the world, so we should be thankful. Oh, and yesterday I got to drive the Jeep through a flooded-out stretch of road with water half way up our doors while all the more timid (or is that wiser?) drivers turned around. So that was pretty cool.
That's a submerged car's trunk lid extending from the water in this first picture. All photos taken from the Enquirer.
The forecast calls for more rain on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday this week, so keep your fingers crossed.
Posted by teamchandler at January 10, 2005 12:26 PM
Comments
hope Santa brought you guys a canoe for xmas, cause I don't think you'll be renting one for awhile!!
stay dry and safe.
Posted by: adam at January 10, 2005 01:51 PM
Matt,
I really think it is time for you to invest in one of these:
http://www.aquada.co.uk/
Posted by: Jon at January 10, 2005 05:05 PM
That's crazy flooding. I thought I had it bad out in AZ last week. Dav and I attempted to do some backpacking, though it didn't work out quite as planned due to all the rain. Most of the people we ran into that lived around there had never seen it that bad (at least east of Phoenix). With all these crazy weather occurences and the mounting evidence of global warming's reality
http://archives.cnn.com/2000/NATURE/01/13/global.warming/
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/1223-03.htm
http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/nation/7725721.htm?1c
isn't it time we begin thinking more seriously about long term solutions and heavily funding research into cleaner, more efficient, and sustainable energy sources and products?
Posted by: digdug at January 11, 2005 04:57 PM
hopefully when NGC is our age we'll be driving hydrogen powered cars...
Posted by: adam at January 11, 2005 06:08 PM
I was in OH10 for Rogers' wedding, which was held in Amish country. There were two times my friend driving took his corrolla through flooded roads - similar to one Chilean experience.
Posted by: Mike at January 12, 2005 09:42 AM
Probably more dangerous than Chile since we all know the Yaris could pull full sub duty if need be. There was nothing that car couldn't do.
Posted by: Tony at January 12, 2005 10:37 AM
and chile wasn't that dangerous. All the road signs just said "PELLIGRO!", which probably just means something like "WELCOME!", right?
Posted by: adam at January 12, 2005 11:53 AM
Hey Cal & Matt!
We haven't seen pictures of Gracie since last year. I miss seeing updates....it makes me smile. GR
Posted by: Grandma Rambo at January 13, 2005 06:31 PM
how can you deny Grandma R like that??
Posted by: adam at January 13, 2005 07:07 PM