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Last year it was Hurricane Isabelle.
My wife and I are storm spotters for NOAA. Yesterday they activated us and we started looking for tornado's in Hanover where we live. When I left the house it had started raining. I actually found one funnel cloud and assumed it was over, so I went home after giving the Weather Service the location.
My driveway was a river, literally! I have a small creek that goes through my property that is normally 12" deep and 4' wide. IT rose 14 feet in a matter of hours. We had 12" of rain yesterday.
I spent most of yesterday evening waist deep in flood water. The water almost got to the house and I needed to keep pulling floating debris from a 100 foot section of privacy fence to keep it from collapsing.
By this morning the water had receded. I was amazed at the sheer stupidity of most of the people here. One fellow in Richmond refused to get off the roof of his car and wade through knee deep water until the fire department helped him.
Very few people handled the emergency well. I had my aceital handled interchangeable poll hatchet, a river knife I use for Kayaking, and 100 feet of rope. To be honest, I was having fun while it seemed everyone else was hiding. I even took my Kayak for a ride down a street.
Hanover was the hardest hit county by the storm and it is just unbelievable to me that so few people didn't even have a proper knife. One woman died in her car and I assume it was because she couldn't open the door and had nothing to break a window. Our gene pool is defiantly polluted!
My wife and I are storm spotters for NOAA. Yesterday they activated us and we started looking for tornado's in Hanover where we live. When I left the house it had started raining. I actually found one funnel cloud and assumed it was over, so I went home after giving the Weather Service the location.
My driveway was a river, literally! I have a small creek that goes through my property that is normally 12" deep and 4' wide. IT rose 14 feet in a matter of hours. We had 12" of rain yesterday.
I spent most of yesterday evening waist deep in flood water. The water almost got to the house and I needed to keep pulling floating debris from a 100 foot section of privacy fence to keep it from collapsing.
By this morning the water had receded. I was amazed at the sheer stupidity of most of the people here. One fellow in Richmond refused to get off the roof of his car and wade through knee deep water until the fire department helped him.
Very few people handled the emergency well. I had my aceital handled interchangeable poll hatchet, a river knife I use for Kayaking, and 100 feet of rope. To be honest, I was having fun while it seemed everyone else was hiding. I even took my Kayak for a ride down a street.
Hanover was the hardest hit county by the storm and it is just unbelievable to me that so few people didn't even have a proper knife. One woman died in her car and I assume it was because she couldn't open the door and had nothing to break a window. Our gene pool is defiantly polluted!
