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72c20customcamper 12-30-2021 02:52 PM

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Originally Posted by dieseldawg142 (Post 9012700)
kinda weird, all these go up in flames during a flood....
but living in a flood plain, you can't get flood insurance....but pretty much everybody has fire insurance.....
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Probably lithium batteries caught fire . Lithium batteries can short and start to burn if damaged and exposed to water ,some RVs come with them as standard for the coach .

Makes ya wonder about how a huge pack in a Tesla would react

CG 12-30-2021 03:02 PM

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I took the week off with the plan to work out in my little shop. Snowed day after Christmas, about 6 to 8 inches (quite a bit more other places around here). Next couple days we’re mid teens but no snow. Yesterday it wasn’t bad (still too cold to be in shop) and with the wind and sorta warmer it helped sluff off some snow. Then it went and snowed again last night. Weather app says maybe more? So today will make another day of me not working on any of the projects I was hoping to get done. I have heat out there but it isn’t that effective. Too chilly for my PNW bones to want to work in. Probably balmy in there compared to what you Midwest folks are used to.
Think I’ll start a fire in our little fire pit and sit in one of our overstuffed fluffy chairs :lol:

Boog 12-30-2021 05:42 PM

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Originally Posted by dieseldawg142 (Post 9012700)
kinda weird, all these go up in flames during a flood....
but living in a flood plain, you can't get flood insurance....but pretty much everybody has fire insurance.....

I guess we do things different down here. Our mortgage company requires us to buy flood insurance if we live in a flood plain. :lol:

FleetsidePaul 12-30-2021 07:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Boog (Post 9012861)
I guess we do things different down here. Our mortgage company requires us to buy flood insurance if we live in a flood plain. :lol:

I live in a fire and flood zone. I don't have a mortgage but I am required to buy fire and flood insurance by my wife. And she's tougher than the government.

Random photo of my pimp daddy Caddy when I bought it. No extra charge for the flat tire. :)

Not bad for 400 bucks. One owner and I drove it home. I just need to clean it up and slap some whitewalls on it.

It has all the options and some of them actually still work.


http://67-72chevytrucks.com/gallery/...um/Caddy11.jpg

dieseldawg142 12-30-2021 07:46 PM

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I guess we do things different down here. Our mortgage company requires us to buy flood insurance if we live in a flood plain. :lol:

with all the mountains around us, we flood quite often,
hasn't been this bad in a few yrs though.
the insurance companies know the deck is stacked against them here, so they won't sell it. plus we prob don't have the population like down there to spread out costs, so it's a real cr*p shoot for the insurance companies...
when we had a mortgage, they are well aware ya can't get flood insurance here, but they don't seem to care- there all gung-ho on making sure you got fire insurance though
as it is, their gonna be on the hook for a few billions anyways, we had massive land slides everywhere, our town was literally cut off from the world for about 8-10 days, every single road and hiway in was destroyed

dieseldawg142 12-30-2021 07:55 PM

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some more damage
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this road was built across a swamp so they laid huuuuge styrofoam blocks down first. when the flood water hit, the road literally floated to the top
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dieseldawg142 12-30-2021 08:08 PM

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more damage....
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so much water came (approx 20-24" in less than 30 hrs) this dyke couldn't take it and let go
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dieseldawg142 12-30-2021 08:15 PM

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the green roof down there is my buddy's place. water came up so fast after the dyke let go they were helicoptering people out. rescue let me take my crewcab (38" tires) down there to get buddy, his wife, 2 kids, 2 dogs and a goat out.
a lot of the farmers lost a lot of livestock, cows, chickens, one chicken farmer alone lost 25000 birds...
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Boog 12-30-2021 08:35 PM

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Major flooding indeed.
I saw recently on the news a bridge on the colq had washed out. Is that one of those shown?

dieseldawg142 12-30-2021 09:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Boog (Post 9012949)
Major flooding indeed.
I saw recently on the news a bridge on the colq had washed out. Is that one of those shown?

ya, the double bridge that's dropped down at one end.
actually 4 or 5 bridges on the coke got heavily damaged, and 5 major wash-outs..
their hoping to have one lane open by next month and it will be for essential only (fire, ambo, police and commercial trucks, it's a major lifeline for the whole area)

4u2nv 12-31-2021 08:22 AM

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ya, the double bridge that's dropped down at one end.
actually 4 or 5 bridges on the coke got heavily damaged, and 5 major wash-outs..
their hoping to have one lane open by next month and it will be for essential only (fire, ambo, police and commercial trucks, it's a major lifeline for the whole area)

All I can say is unreal , I feel for you people out there in the west.

68bowtie 12-31-2021 11:29 AM

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Water is an unbelievably powerful force.

72c20customcamper 12-31-2021 01:02 PM

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Wife took it at Ground zero near the reflection pool Wednesday this past week . Didn’t know squirrels could read

yuccales 12-31-2021 01:27 PM

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After seeing Dieseldawg142 pictures, I'm not going to complain about a little snow shoveling! So very sad to see all that destruction. Did get the 70 freed from it's snowy grave yesterday.

dieseldawg142 12-31-2021 03:09 PM

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After seeing Dieseldawg142 pictures, I'm not going to complain about a little snow shoveling! So very sad to see all that destruction. Did get the 70 freed from it's snowy grave yesterday.

also affected our work. was off for 5 days, couldn't get no materials delivered to our local jobs, and couldn't get out of here for our out of town work.
when the water receeded enough to open some roads, this is what we found at one of our job sites.
it's a seismic upgrade to a skool roof. we tear off the old roof, then the contractor's crew comes in at night and does the seismic work to the roof, then we come back and watertight them up.
as it's the winter, the contractor hired a company to come and hoard the job site (basically shrink wrap the roof). we got very lucky, the hoarding stayed on the side that we had the roof ripped off of, the side that went is not done, but at least we had the roof based in. as it was, there was damage, 'bout 15 G's of water damage and a couple grand of physical damage from the hoarding smacking stuff...
check out the water blister that helped bring it down. we cut one blister open and approx 5-600 gallons of water gushed out
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dieseldawg142 12-31-2021 03:25 PM

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like i said, we had countless slides all over the place...like this unfortunate guy down the road from me, don't think the geo-techs are gonna let him move back in.
thought it was just another slide, till ya drive around it and see where it came from....poor guy..:(
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slides all over...
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worst part imo is we lost pretty much every back road and FSR road. me and the dawgs have not been able to get down pretty much every single back road we tried. the valley will look a lot different for riding next summer.
there was never a river or creek in this area, took out approx 3 miles of the road
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HO455 12-31-2021 03:26 PM

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I have friends just outside of Abbotsford that are still trying to save their home and business from flooding caused by a landslide. The rains just keeping coming without let up making things worse.

dieseldawg142 12-31-2021 03:36 PM

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I have friends just outside of Abbotsford that are still trying to save their home and business from flooding caused by a landslide. The rains just keeping coming without let up making things worse.

actually the last 2 weeks have helped, got a arctic outflow happening, we been hanging around -15C to -25C (0 to -15F) and it has slowed down the water and snow coming off the mountains (but now i gotta shovel the "rain" outta my driveway...)
there was NEVER a waterfall or even a creek here before...
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this bites, looks like me and the dawgs will be hoofing it a lot more next yr..
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dieseldawg142 12-31-2021 03:45 PM

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big prob now is all the lumber that came down...it's like this everywhere on every river & creek
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the river actually came up over this back road, ate a bunch of the bank away too. that's silt and mud from the river under the snow
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this little puddle down the road from me. it caught a couple cars, me and wifey went thru here later and there was a swamped out honda and a chryco 300 sitting there
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at least it ain't raining anymore......
darn, i'm really hating the shovel right now...:lol:
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dieseldawg142 12-31-2021 03:57 PM

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the waters are receeding out here now
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the military choppered in a bunch of pumps. this pump station was built in the '20's (with upgrades over the yrs)
there is 4 massive pumps in there, they have never run all 4 at once, and never at full bore, for 7 days they were all going full blast and they we worried about one pump going down, it would have allowed the river to start backflowing in again. at the peak it was pumping over 650 000 gpm
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authorities kicked all boats out of the flood area except for emergency personal. you got yahoos like this guy making waves compounding damage to people houses and property's
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about the only damage no one regrets is this little turnaround on the highway...this is where 5-0 usually sits. :metal::metal:
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Stocker 12-31-2021 07:07 PM

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Those are some amazing pics.... the damage there is mind-boggling.

72c20customcamper 12-31-2021 07:09 PM

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Today at one of streams running off the reservoir. He/she was perched on a limb about 10 ft from the road I stopped but couldn’t get the camera out fast enough before it took flight .

LockDoc 12-31-2021 10:21 PM

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Today at one of streams running off the reservoir. He/she was perched on a limb about 10 ft from the road I stopped but couldn’t get the camera out fast enough before it took flight .


We had an occupied nest about 5 miles North of me and the last wind storm we had took it down. You can't even tell there was anything there. The nest had been there and used for the last 4 years.... Bummer.

LockDoc

72c20customcamper 01-01-2022 05:56 PM

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We had an occupied nest about 5 miles North of me and the last wind storm we had took it down. You can't even tell there was anything there. The nest had been there and used for the last 4 years.... Bummer.

LockDoc

We have a lot of Bald eagles around here now . 10 years ago there were just a couple nesters but they have had on average 2 to 3 hatchlings early spring so they multiply expedentially.

1slo64 01-03-2022 09:50 AM

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You wouldn’t know it was 80 degrees here with tornadoes just 2 days ago.

LockDoc 01-03-2022 10:49 AM

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You wouldn’t know it was 80 degrees here with tornadoes just 2 days ago.


I saw yesterday on a YouTube weather channel that some of you down there were supposed to get snow, and frost/freeze warnings all the way down to the gulf..... Bummer.. :(

LockDoc

1slo64 01-03-2022 11:00 AM

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I saw yesterday on a YouTube weather channel that some of you down there were supposed to get snow, and frost/freeze warnings all the way down to the gulf..... Bummer.. :(

LockDoc

My area got about 5" of snow but thankfully majority of it has melted off of the main roadways.

72c20customcamper 01-03-2022 08:18 PM

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Road find .

LT7A 01-04-2022 06:43 PM

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sadly not much chance of saving this old 1800's barn but I might try some homemade shoring and restoration when I retire

dad and I lofted over two thousand bales in that barn only 35 years ago when we were feeding cattle out of it

back then stored a couple of tractors and the hay trailer in there too

mortise and tenon joints just sitting on limestone blocks, nothing in or fastened to the ground

I remember as a little kid my dad cleaning out the tack room and found a box of old wet dynamite.

thankfully the local quarry made arrangements with him to demo it for us.

I'll bet you could methodically work your way through that to make it safe, usable, and still be very rustic. If I lived a little closer, I'd be happy to come through and help you assess it and work out a plan.

LT7A 01-04-2022 07:08 PM

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the waters are receeding out here now
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the military choppered in a bunch of pumps. this pump station was built in the '20's (with upgrades over the yrs)
there is 4 massive pumps in there, they have never run all 4 at once, and never at full bore, for 7 days they were all going full blast and they we worried about one pump going down, it would have allowed the river to start backflowing in again. at the peak it was pumping over 650 000 gpm

authorities kicked all boats out of the flood area except for emergency personal. you got yahoos like this guy making waves compounding damage to people houses and property's

about the only damage no one regrets is this little turnaround on the highway...this is where 5-0 usually sits. :metal::metal:

DD142, thanks for the pictorial tour. That amount of damage is literally nearly unbelievable.

special-K 01-04-2022 10:17 PM

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DD142, thanks for the pictorial tour. That amount of damage is literally nearly unbelievable.

Yeah, thanks. That's just what I was thinking. You could say the earth's not done yet

mr.mud1 01-06-2022 11:11 PM

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When i grow up i want to be.....

Steeveedee 01-06-2022 11:30 PM

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:lol: In the '70s, when I worked on John Deere equipment (independent shop, servicing all brands), that could have been a Ford 9N or some such. Hadn't ever heard of Kubota, back then. Maybe they existed, I just never knew.

dieseldawg142 01-07-2022 03:39 AM

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this bites...
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special-K 01-07-2022 07:28 AM

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When i grow up i want to be.....

Is that big boy a Deutz?
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this bites...

Yes it does. I'll take a foot of snow over freezing rain any day.

I have 4" of fresh snow to push off once the sun comes up.

mr.mud1 01-07-2022 09:26 AM

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Is that big boy a Deutz?

Yes it does. I'll take a foot of snow over freezing rain any day.

I have 4" of fresh snow to push off once the sun comes up.

hi,that big boy was a FENDT,evidently a german tractor manufacturer.i took a run through the yard,these people had a Kabota coming in on trade and i was interested in it so i wanted to see if it was there,never saw the orange one but this poor little thing sitting out back with the big guys,made me laugh.i had never heard of Fendt but this place is a tractor dealer,mainly Kabota but tractors of every flavour seemed to be there.i used to truck with a guy,put a v-12,i think it was Duetz diesel in a highway truck.he used to drive in the winter with a snowmobile suit on,freezing to death with an air cooled engine?
we don't have a drop of snow,you couldn't find enough snow here to make a snowball,but supposed to be a storm coming through here today.tomorrow it'll look different i'm sure.

special-K 01-07-2022 12:42 PM

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I've never heard of a Fendt either. I first saw a Deutz tractor at the first tractor pull I ever attended. It amazed me with it'd torque. My dad said German Panzer tanks were Deutz powered. You know, Diamond Reo tried producing Deutz powered trucks. They had a distinctive look. The first "ant eater". They did not go over well, possibly for the lack of heat
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Running this must have been a hateful job :lol:. I wonder what they did for a defroster?

mr.mud1 01-07-2022 02:30 PM

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I've never heard of a Fendt either. I first saw a Deutz tractor at the first tractor pull I ever attended. It amazed me with it'd torque. My dad said German Panzer tanks were Deutz powered. You know, Diamond Reo tried producing Deutz powered trucks. They had a distinctive look. The first "ant eater". They did not go over well, possibly for the lack of heat
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Running this must have been a hateful job :lol:. I wonder what they did for a defroster?

i don't know what they did for heat?maybe a gas heater like a vw bug?a 100 years ago when i was a kid in Montreal,there was a girl in my class,her dad was a salesman for Diamond Reo,i think back then they had Mack cabs?you're probably right about the Duetz engines in Panzer tanks.i did see a documentary one time about WW2 and they talked about some of the German tanks with Maybach engines and being so complicated and hard to work on out in field,it led to alot of them being left behind?interesting stuff.

dieseldawg142 01-07-2022 03:27 PM

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Yes it does. I'll take a foot of snow over freezing rain any day.

I have 4" of fresh snow to push off once the sun comes up.

i'd take the snow too....but we already have about 14-16" of snow under the ice...
almost an inch in spots- kills me seeing my toy like this...humbug :waah:
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dieseldawg142 01-07-2022 03:35 PM

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ya, this really bites...
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the road in front of my house is covered in 3" of pure ice
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hope our power stays up. we lost it last night for 'bout 6 hrs...
now all you hear out there is branches and trees dropping everywhere...like flies
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can't even get into my beater, froze over
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