the only flood that i remember being in was in 1997 or 1998 here in
tennessee. i was staying at my grandmother's house, when a hard rain
came up and flooded almost up to her doorstep. i tried taking pictures
of it, but they didn't come out. i didn't have a flash on the camera,
but we were all standing out in it and waiting to see how much the
water rised before we would have to leave. it stopped finally. that
rain took out at least 3 bridges down the road i lived on.
they use coverts for bridges now. it is just a metal tube about 2 1/2
feet wide, and it is covered with big rocks and then covered with dirt
and gravel. they always wash out, but they are cheap to put back in
compared to the wood ones they used to have.
it always floods every heavy rain in the road in front of her house, so
that is not much of a warning. its when it rises into the yard and
over the creek bank when its really a problem.
--- BrambleLane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Joy Beeson writes:
> As I looked around, I noticed that every last beach house that wasn't
> very,
> very cheap had wheels under it.
>
> Exactly why I tried to get DH to agree to live in a large travel
> trailer--most of the campgrounds around here are in a flood zone.
> But if
> weather threatens, you can just go find a high place to park! We
> came what
> I considered to be uncomfortably close to being flooded a couple of
> years
> ago. We live in a 100-year flood zone. The river is across the
> 2-lane road
> and down a bit. The water came nearly up to the road, and a couple
> hundred
> feet further, the road was lower. If it had come just a little
> higher, we'd
> have been nailed, because our house sits just alongside the road,
> and, of
> course, lower than the road.
from susan in tennessee,u.s.a.
__________________________________
Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005
http://mail.yahoo.com
To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:
unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
