Flooding?

Well, although it HAS rained, it wasn't nearly as bad here as it was going to be. I am praying for you folks in the mnts and SC where it was supposed to be the worst.
 
ponykilr said:
Well, although it HAS rained, it wasn't nearly as bad here as it was going to be. I am praying for you folks in the mnts and SC where it was supposed to be the worst.
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Asheville areas hasn't got much today. I live in Waynesville and was in Asheville all afternoon. Nothing but a slight mist all day here. Just enough to piss you off really but river is up but not close to what I've seen it before
 
Well it is raining harder here this morning (off and on) than any day previous since this rainy time started.
Prior to this morning the intensity has been medium at best. It was gully washer time this morning.

:( might as well face the reality, my seed is gone. Back to Middlesex this week.
 
RobMcBee said:
There's a Westinghouse here in Charlotte
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Not a Westinghouse, it's THE Westinghouse Blvd. Mainly because I grew up around here and since I was a kid I have heard my dad talking about how he used to race down it in the 70s. Also I work in the plant that is the namesake of Westinghouse Blvd, and it's pretty huge.
 
jeepinmatt said:
Not a Westinghouse, it's THE Westinghouse Blvd. Mainly because I grew up around here and since I was a kid I have heard my dad talking about how he used to race down it in the 70s. Also I work in the plant that is the namesake of Westinghouse Blvd, and it's pretty huge.
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You're not even kidding.... I did a job in there years ago. We removed a piece of equipment and the foundation it sat on out of the floor. The concrete was about 6' thick in some spots and almost maxed out the 20t overhead crane pulling the chunks out of the floor. First time I ever used a wire saw....


I always enjoy seeing those massive turbine shafts or whatever they are coming in on those 30-40 axle trucks
 
jeepinmatt said:
Not a Westinghouse, it's THE Westinghouse Blvd. Mainly because I grew up around here and since I was a kid I have heard my dad talking about how he used to race down it in the 70s. Also I work in the plant that is the namesake of Westinghouse Blvd, and it's pretty huge.
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We were still racing in the business parks off carowinds and westinghouse in 2004 before I moved to nashville.
We got a decent thunderstorm here last night but it's mostly steady light rain now.
 
RobMcBee said:
You're not even kidding.... I did a job in there years ago. We removed a piece of equipment and the foundation it sat on out of the floor. The concrete was about 6' thick in some spots and almost maxed out the 20t overhead crane pulling the chunks out of the floor. First time I ever used a wire saw....


I always enjoy seeing those massive turbine shafts or whatever they are coming in on those 30-40 axle trucks
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We installed a new vertical turning lathe last year, and the foundation was 19ft deep. Solid concrete and rebar. They were supposed to go deeper, but stopped at 19 because they hit bedrock :D For the sake of keeping this thread on track, they got a lot of big granite boulders out as they were digging it, and I brought about 12 of them home and used a few as landscaping around they yard and at the end of the driveway. The biggest one I brought home was about 7ft long, 4ft wide, and 2ft deep. They took even bigger ones out back and dumped them in the woods.
 
The new river is pretty high, and will probably continue to rise. I've seen it worse.

The water lever is normally about 7ft. Under the beams of the bridge in the picture. The low water bridges are already under.

Also got to help out a yj that thought it was a jet ski. Guy ran through a flooded section of road and must have hit it with some speed. He got water in the distributor and killed it in about 2ft of water. Pulled it out, sprayed some qd electronic cleaner in the distributor and got him going.
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jeepinmatt said:
We installed a new vertical turning lathe last year, and the foundation was 19ft deep. Solid concrete and rebar. They were supposed to go deeper, but stopped at 19 because they hit bedrock :D For the sake of keeping this thread on track, they got a lot of big granite boulders out as they were digging it, and I brought about 12 of them home and used a few as landscaping around they yard and at the end of the driveway. The biggest one I brought home was about 7ft long, 4ft wide, and 2ft deep. They took even bigger ones out back and dumped them in the woods.
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Mercy sakes! I used to drive for Concrete Supply. I've poured some of those Holes. Last one I recall, you could have set my first house in! And then How do they sometimes dig those back out, to change the size?
They told me it was for a new Lathe, & there had to be Zero vibration, turning the turbine shafts!
 
rodney eppes said:
Mercy sakes! I used to drive for Concrete Supply. I've poured some of those Holes. Last one I recall, you could have set my first house in! And then How do they sometimes dig those back out, to change the size?
They told me it was for a new Lathe, & there had to be Zero vibration, turning the turbine shafts!
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Small world I used to drive for CSC too, what plant did you work out of?
 
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My house.

Midlands South Carolina has had our ass handed to us. Interstates flooded, cars and roads washed away, people stranded, complete disaster area. I do 24/7 emergency flood calls/ damage restoration at work and can't even make it into the office. I spent the last few hours trying to save what I can and going out on foot helping neighbors. It's no where near over. Only just beginning and already over a foot.
 
XJsavage said:
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My house.

Midlands South Carolina has had our ass handed to us. Interstates flooded, cars and roads washed away, people stranded, complete disaster area. I do 24/7 emergency flood calls/ damage restoration at work and can't even make it into the office. I spent the last few hours trying to save what I can and going out on foot helping neighbors. It's no where near over. Only just beginning and already over a foot.
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Stay safe bud, my sis lives down there on one of those a "lakes" she's watching the water closely
 
Theres now officially buildings collapsing from the rushing water just a few miles down the road near Midlands tech beltline campus Columbia. Shit just got real.
 
I had seen on the news where the front of one building looked smashed in... I think it was on Garners Ferry or Beltline
 
We were supposed to leave yesterday for a week at Hilton Head. Decided to wait until today. Now still waiting and probably wont leave until Monday or Tuesday due to all the flooding in SC.
 
RobMcBee said:
I had seen on the news where the front of one building looked smashed in... I think it was on Garners Ferry or Beltline
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Yeah Garners ferry at Rosewood intersection. MTC campus is directly behind that.
Theres literally no businesses open anywhere in Cola right now. Everything big enough is being used as a shelter.
 
My sister just sent me this picture of the road at her house near Elgin, their dam broke and is draining out fast!
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This is about average for nearly every road within a mile from my house. Im essentially landlocked as far as driving goes. Stranded cars everywhere and I just helped a lady get off the roof of her car shortly after snapping this pic. This is insane.
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Wow Savage! Where do you live?
 
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