rodney eppes
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New Sport > Tree Surfing!Just your normal neighborhood "those guys" doing stuff
Storm damage
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highcj5
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Last year when it started raining a lot. I started to lose my spillway on the pond. It has steadily backing up closer to the pond. I was scared to go check it today, but the pond was still there. I have a guy that is supposed to fix it. Might have to get him to hurry up on it. Hahahahaha
RatLabGuy
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I'm sure you had to deal with this - it also becomes a question of "safer to evacuate or keep everybody here in one piece?"
UTfball68
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For sure. First tornado sirens started up, proceeded with our safety protocol. Then in the midst of trying to keep 150 people calm while they’re saying they didn’t want to die there and/or had to go get their kids (after explaining the schools were already locked down), listened to various scanners and watched few different weather models. Looked like there was a 60-90min window between the first and second red bands of storms and that would be the best time to get everyone out. Was a really weird feeling ‘being responsible’ for those folks all the while wanting to get to my wife and kids and all the hypotheticals that start running through your head. What if a tornado comes, and what if I’m 30 seconds late to my family, etc etc.
Flood got my favorite camera
Water line is just under the lens, about 3.5' up a tree, 80yds from the river. Usually a 6-7' bank at the river. The water lines on the trees were 3-4' in the bottom. I figure the river was 10-12' over normal. I'd have some interesting pics if I didn't leave my phone at home or I could get the sd card to play
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Wonder if the bag of rice treatment would work? Seems like the SD card should work if dry and put into a computer or something? I’d really like to see those pics!
RatLabGuy
You look like a monkey and smell like one too
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If its all solid state, I would definitely set that thing in a big bag of rice for a day or so, and do NOT turn it on. The SD card is probably fine at least.
Water is only really a problem for electronic when they are on/current is flowing.
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They said the South Fork was about 17ft over normal.
The camera was on when it got wet so I’m thinking it’s wrecked but I have it opened up and sitting on an air vent just to check for sure in a couple days. Water poured out when I pulled the battery pack. I figure most of the water went through the card hole and was held in by the o ring on the battery pack that exits through the bottom.
rodney eppes
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Took these late today. Hwy 73 in Mount Holly, 4 lane bridge over Dutchmans Creek, before it pours into the Catawba. Happened sometime Thursday, but was Saturday before I heard of it. I've been here 21 years & we've had at least 3 "100" year Floods. This bridge has never been damaged or overflowed, before. Guess it had More Blockage this time. Washed out under the north end. Sand wash, as far up & over the banks as I've ever seen it! Picture of the field & trees, with a red looking line, is the water line, which would also be road level. With the Catawba being Full, may have backed this creek up, too! 1/2 of the washed end top cover has been torn off. Probably the other have will be too, to back fill it. How Long for repairs? Hwy 73 & Hwy 27, are the Main arteries of Mount Holly!
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Son of a bish. I was wondering why it was still closed. That's really F'd up my commute home Friday and today.
This is what the intersection normally looks like at Nc27 and 273 in Mt Holly:
And this is some pics stolen from FB:
rodney eppes
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Holy Water! Like I said, That Ain't Never happened! I didn't check the River, last week, since we only only had 3-4" of rain, over a long stretch. but That makes me think the Catawba, Backed up Into the Creek!
The south fork river backed up every feeder creek I know of around Dallas and had my usual route to work closed through Tuesday. It back flooded a creek bottom just down the road from me and moved a wooden bridge The land owner uses with his tractor about 40yds.
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Here's my Creek up about a foot a few years ago. My 5'8" wife is standing on the bank for scale.
Here's the same spot from the opposite direction last week.
You can see where it had actually been up over the bank by a couple feet.
And here's a few more in a flatter area where it had room to spread out.
This was all flowing water on the day of the storm. I believe the next day it was just as high from backflooding from the south fork river, but I didn't go down to check.
Here's the same spot from the opposite direction last week.
You can see where it had actually been up over the bank by a couple feet.
And here's a few more in a flatter area where it had room to spread out.
This was all flowing water on the day of the storm. I believe the next day it was just as high from backflooding from the south fork river, but I didn't go down to check.
rodney eppes
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Finally today, I see Spectrum & Channel 9, reporting the Flooded Apartments in Mount Holly. Ch.9 only covered the apartments, as far as I know, where Spectrum news, covered the apartments & the damaged bridge. I was in a restaurant & the sound was muted, so I don't know what the story/time line, is on the Bridge. State did work on it today, including hauling Class A [BIG] rip rap.
rodney eppes
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Mount Holly update today. Dropped by after the workers were gone. Creek is down some, but still running Strong, & Same debris still there. West side where the washout started, I got down low as I could, & viewing the steel pilings exposed about a foot. I would think the concrete end support, Should be touching the ground. Water/mud mix still in the hole. On the east side, a pump is running, pumping into a bladder. The bladder is slowly releasing water, back to the Creek. No idea on the purpose of this? Maybe some hydrologist has an idea? East side is also washed out More than the West side, showing More piling & concrete wall, in the air. About 50+ feet of pavement has been removed, & some of the dirt/stone, has been pushed into the void. A Lot of crusher run & some #57 or #5 stone, hauled in. Along with maybe 4 loads of Class B Rip Rap. State Is working on it, at their usual pace.
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awheelterd
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The bag is a geotextile bag. It is meant to filter out the sediment before the water goes back into the river.
rodney eppes
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It's working! If you can see wave looking lines on the bag, that's the lines of water flowing out of it. Only, with the sediment, high water, & debris, still in the water, I don't see the use of the bag!
awheelterd
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I'm just guessing here, but I imagine the rules state that to pump any water into a river it has to go through a bag, with no regard to the rivers current condition.