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Speedie · Senior Member

Rain, rain go away...

Speedie · Senior Member

http://www.ajc.com/video/?bcpid=1659825399&bclid=1717763711&bctid=41297455001&bcplt=917x606&bcautostart=true

This is the highway I mentioned. What a dang mess!!!

Welllllll.................the water damage to our basement in no longer minimal. It's flooded. Ain't that craptastic!

vett boy · Guru

This sucks big time .Are the cars still high and dry ? More rain in the forecast. evileye

Speedie · Senior Member

vett boy wrote:

This sucks big time .Are the cars still high and dry ? More rain in the forecast.

Yup. The Vettes are fine.

redwing76 · Guru

Speedie, ya'all cane rent you'se a pump........just trying to relate to ya'll.
Finished basement? Last basement that I finished I was used ceramic tile, but that still doesn't the water from ruining the dry wall.....
You can get flood insurnace from the US Government........bleach kills the mold so does Zinsiner 123........if you use dry wall again go with cement backer board for the 1st 3 ft.

It hasn't rained here since last April and then it was a Thunder Storm that set the next street over from me on fire........
Natural is completely nuetral..........

vett boy · Guru

redwing76 wrote:

Speedie, ya'all cane rent you'se a pump........just trying to relate to ya'll.
Finished basement? Last basement that I finished I was used ceramic tile, but that still doesn't the water from ruining the dry wall.....
You can get flood insurnace from the US Government........bleach kills the mold so does Zinsiner 123........if you use dry wall again go with cement backer board for the 1st 3 ft.

It hasn't rained here since last April and then it was a Thunder Storm that set the next street over from me on fire........
Natural is completely nuetral..........

I hate rain almost as much as snow . evileye

Speedie · Senior Member

redwing76 wrote:

Speedie, ya'all cane rent you'se a pump........just trying to relate to ya'll.
Finished basement? Last basement that I finished I was used ceramic tile, but that still doesn't the water from ruining the dry wall.....
You can get flood insurnace from the US Government........bleach kills the mold so does Zinsiner 123........if you use dry wall again go with cement backer board for the 1st 3 ft.

It hasn't rained here since last April and then it was a Thunder Storm that set the next street over from me on fire........
Natural is completely nuetral..........

Hey Bud,

Yes, it is (was) a finished basement. We finished cleaning up the mess last night. My husband and son worked soooo hard. All the furniture is outside in the side yard, and the padding and carpet has been pulled out, and we're left with concrete. We're having one of those big dumpster things delivered so we can load up all the trash and get it out of here.

What we do from here remains up for discussion. Thanks so much for the good info! I appreciate you.

As for flood insurance, we don't have it, and I doubt Metropolitan will write a policy. Something about a 100 year flood plain.....

Y'all haven't had rain since April?? OMG!!!

TopLess62 · Veteran Member

Dang, Lil' Sis!! That sucks!!! Sorry!!

ffas23 · Guru

I just got to read this post this morning and I feel for you Speedie.

I know what you are going through. I have been through plenty of floods since 1971 when living in Bound Brook, New Jersey. The family meaning me and my sister still have my parents home there that was left to us that was hit plenty of times with flooding over the years. The last one we delt with was only 2 years ago in 2007 and the largest was in 1999. My father pasted away this past year on New Years Eve and my elderly mother at 87 is in a Nursing Home with Alzheimers Disease. For the last 9 months we have found no buyers for the house. The house is a good solid home and people like it when they see it but when people find out it is in a flood area they walk away from it. In the mean time the high N.J. property taxes plus utilites and flood insurance must be paid costing the family a pretty penny. We can't even rent the house because the state has their hand in the Estate also being my mother is on Medicaid although in my fathers will it stipulated the house would go to my sister and myself if my father passed away before my mother. The house was in my fathers name only as of 2006 well before my mom went into a nursing home a year later.

It is no joke dealing with a flooded home. The flood of '99 even damaged the first floor in this same house that we needed to deal with. The army corp of engineers have been working on what seems forever to seal the town from floods. They are in the final stages of the work that is needed to keep the town from flooding in the future.

redwing76 · Guru

High property taxes..........not here.
In the 70's California under Ronald Regan, the state government wanted more money ( I know its hard to believe) and the base property tax base was only going up on average 3 to 4% a year........

The powers that be decided to inflate the acessed home values.......by some 100%
with a stroke of a pen.
It was of course the begining of the end for the California relestate market.....as we see now.
But it all started in the 70"s with government greed.........people who owned thier homes out right were forced to sell......that drove up the cost of homes on the market as they were being sold by the new acessed values.....

Eventually we the people woke and took it all back with a grass roots initative called Prop 13
Under Prop 13 by law the property tax could never be more than 1% of the purchase price.

The then govenor Jerry Brown called it a communist plot to destroy the government.
He wasn't re-elected..........no politico sponsored this bill, it was the people's bill...there has to be something wrong with we the people deciding our own future......

My property tax is locked in a 1% for as long as I own the home.

Most states have no cap on property as in those states we the people are long suffering.

Of course the idiots who control this state have been trying to over turn Prop 13 for 30 years,
but once a law is passed good or bad its forever.........ya gotta love such an unbending ridgid system of government.......as in we never make mistakes.

No eraser on a pen.

redwing76 · Guru

That sucks Speedie........it hasn't been your year.......
Forget the carpet this time........ceramic tile is cheap, but the labor to install is not,
but its easy to do.

I my exs basement I installed 700 12X12 ceramic tiles, for the rest of the area I rasied the areas 12" with 2X12 green board...thats where the carpet went.
The sump pumps can cope with 90% of the water.......so it never got over a few inches if it did flood.

If your in a flood area you have to build for it. Down the road from I lived FEMA paid to raise the houses some ten feet with a low interest loan.......but after all the work was done FEMA demanded instant repayment......gotta love people who lie and cheat for a living.........anyway the government wanted the folks to refi and give thier money back to the crooks who have control over it.......but we the people woke and had thier Congressman get FEMA to back off......

Its does a heart good to see we the people wake up.
Me I avoid the government like a leper, but you can get loans to help with your flood........Sometimes you have to dig and stand your ground.....

Speedie · Senior Member

redwing76 wrote:

That sucks Speedie........it hasn't been your year.......

Thanks, guys. Everthing is pretty much cleaned up, and now we have to get one of those construction dumpster thingys and have all the trash hauled away. Next, we'll start having stuff repaired/replaced.

I'm kinda lookin' at this as God's way of sayin' You have too much stuff!! Let me help you get rid of some...."

Life goes on........

vett boy · Guru

Glad it sort of worked out .

Speedie · Senior Member

vett boy wrote:

Glad it sort of worked out .

Thanks, sweetie. It's all good.

TopLess62 · Veteran Member

Speedie wrote:

redwing76 wrote:

That sucks Speedie........it hasn't been your year.......

Thanks, guys. Everthing is pretty much cleaned up, and now we have to get one of those construction dumpster thingys and have all the trash hauled away. Next, we'll start having stuff repaired/replaced.

I'm kinda lookin' at this as God's way of sayin' You have too much stuff!! Let me help you get rid of some...."

Life goes on........

Geez, just get divorced and move out...you will lose most of your stuff in a hurry!! Fortunately, I still have my Vette, my guns, my tools and my manhood...and I hope I get to use my guns, Vette and tools soon!!! biggrin

Speedie · Senior Member

TopLess62 wrote:
Geez, just get divorced and move out...

No thanks, honey...I adore my husband.

redwing76 · Guru

Speedie wrote:

TopLess62 wrote:
Geez, just get divorced and move out...

No thanks, honey...I adore my husband.

Good for you, Speedie.............it makes everything else look possible when theres some on YOUR team..........

Speedie · Senior Member

redwing76 wrote:

Good for you, Speedie.............it makes everything else look possible when theres some on YOUR team..........

Thanks. I know I can depend on him. He's about the only one, though.

TopLess62 · Veteran Member

Speedie wrote:

redwing76 wrote:

Good for you, Speedie.............it makes everything else look possible when theres some on YOUR team..........

Thanks. I know I can depend on him. He's about the only one, though.

Not true....

Speedie · Senior Member

TopLess62 wrote:
Not true....

What? That I can't depend on him?

TopLess62 · Veteran Member

Speedie wrote:

TopLess62 wrote:
Not true....
What? That I can't depend on him?

No, you dope...that he is the only one...

Speedie · Senior Member

TopLess62 wrote:
No, you dope...that he is the only one...

Oooooohhhh!!