Flooding?

Meanwhile in Columbia, SC
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Praying for safety fellas. I have been in the same boat (no pun) and know it's a terrible thing.
 
I hate it for you guys, but I'm glad to see there was actually rain somewhere after all the news hype. I'd guess we got about an inch at my house over the past 3 days.
 
Som pics my sis has shared on her FB page. She lives in Elgin just NE of Columbia..

Spears Creek Church Rd

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Wood Creek Farms main bridge
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Somewhere on Hardscrabble Rd...
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Wow!
 
Granted I was only 3 when hurricane Hugo smashed us but I swear it was nowhere near this bad (minus the wind). My city is in terrible shape right now.
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XJsavage said:
Granted I was only 3 when hurricane Hugo smashed us but I swear it was nowhere near this bad (minus the wind). My city is in terrible shape right now.
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Call me if you need any help or a dry place to stay.
 
RHSCTJ said:
Call me if you need any help or a dry place to stay.
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Thank you kindly sir. My house is still good and dry inside. Water was inches from pouring in though. Theres now officially a 6-6 curfew so nobody can really go anywhere anyways.
 
Woke up this morning with no power, no water, got one pair of dry clothes left, (which I'm wearing) and there's more roads impassable than passable. Now the winds have picked up. It's gonna be a long day.

More importantly, death toll already at 5, hundreds rescued.
 
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XJsavage said:
Woke up this morning with no power, no water, got one pair of dry clothes left, (which I'm wearing) and there's more roads impassable than passable. Now the winds have picked up. It's gonna be a long day.

More importantly, death toll already at 5, hundreds rescued.
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Good luck to you man. Stay safe!
 
We dont have anything like that here, but if the winds keep blowing like they do many homes will be flooded.
 

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There was a landslide on the major road to my work, it covered around 100' of road
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I made it into work today finally. Mostly because I had to take a dump and brush my teeth. Got to see the SE and SW side of Columbia up close and in person and wow... The railroad systems are a mangled mess, Bluff rd is a lake, and what really concerns me is the sewer plant drain field along i77 is a completely underwater and washing straight into the Congaree.
 
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The solution to pollution is dilution. Sounds like you have plenty of dilution.
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It shouldn't have been built that close to the water anyways. Guess back in the 40s or 50s it was OK to do so.
 
XJsavage said:
It shouldn't have been built that close to the water anyways. Guess back in the 40s or 50s it was OK to do so.
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They're near the water for a variety of reasons, not least of which is that they're at the bottom of the hill, so the poo all flows to them easily.
 
That's all well and fine but just adds to the nastiness that's already getting washed down.
 
It's columbia. Be real about it. The sewage plant is the nicest part of town.
 
Yeah granted it's not the nicest city in the state but I do have to live here for now and a lot of people call it home. I can't bring myself to joke about anyone dealing with this chaos no matter who they are or where it is.
 
Talked to my sisters, they are locked in at their house. They live on a dirt road and it has washed out on both sides of them. They luckily still have power and are on a well.

Just seen Nikki Haley on the news, death toll is up to 9. Rolling road closures.

Also the SAMs club on Forrest Dr. Is allowing anyone in w/o a membership and say they have plenty of water. @XJsavage, stay safe bud, like said before if you need a place to crash for a few nights we got a small Apt over the garage you can use.
 
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