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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: |
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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 |
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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 |
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some more damage
Attachment 2154997Attachment 2154998Attachment 2155001Attachment 2155003 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 Attachment 2155000 |
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more damage....
Attachment 2155009Attachment 2155010Attachment 2155012Attachment 2155014 so much water came (approx 20-24" in less than 30 hrs) this dyke couldn't take it and let go Attachment 2155013 |
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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... Attachment 2155016Attachment 2155017Attachment 2155019Attachment 2155020Attachment 2155018 |
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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? |
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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) |
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Water is an unbelievably powerful force.
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Wife took it at Ground zero near the reflection pool Wednesday this past week . Didn’t know squirrels could read
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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.
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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 Attachment 2155096Attachment 2155097Attachment 2155101Attachment 2155102Attachment 2155103 |
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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..:( Attachment 2155105Attachment 2155107 slides all over... Attachment 2155108Attachment 2155110 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 Attachment 2155104 |
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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.
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there was NEVER a waterfall or even a creek here before... Attachment 2155115 this bites, looks like me and the dawgs will be hoofing it a lot more next yr.. Attachment 2155111Attachment 2155112Attachment 2155113Attachment 2155114 |
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big prob now is all the lumber that came down...it's like this everywhere on every river & creek
Attachment 2155117 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 Attachment 2155119Attachment 2155118 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 Attachment 2155116 at least it ain't raining anymore...... darn, i'm really hating the shovel right now...:lol: Attachment 2155120 |
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the waters are receeding out here now
Attachment 2155121Attachment 2155122 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 Attachment 2155124 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 Attachment 2155123 about the only damage no one regrets is this little turnaround on the highway...this is where 5-0 usually sits. :metal::metal: Attachment 2155125 |
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Those are some amazing pics.... the damage there is mind-boggling.
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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 .
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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 |
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You wouldn’t know it was 80 degrees here with tornadoes just 2 days ago.
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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 |
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Road find .
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When i grow up i want to be.....
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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.
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I have 4" of fresh snow to push off once the sun comes up. |
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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. |
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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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almost an inch in spots- kills me seeing my toy like this...humbug :waah: Attachment 2156487Attachment 2156488Attachment 2156489Attachment 2156490Attachment 2156491 |
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ya, this really bites...
Attachment 2156492Attachment 2156493 the road in front of my house is covered in 3" of pure ice Attachment 2156494 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 Attachment 2156495 can't even get into my beater, froze over Attachment 2156496 |
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