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On Sep 2, 11:51 am, "Ed Huntress" wrote:
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On Sep 2, 6:37 am, "Ed Huntress" wrote:





"Wes" wrote in message

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"Ed Huntress" wrote:

Is anyone starting to plan evacuation out there? The latest models
show
the
eye going right over my garage. g I'm only 6 miles from salt water,
but
I'm at 115 feet of altitude, so I'm going to ride it out. The storm
surge
*could* wind up re-shaping the barrier islands of NJ, like one did
just
under a century ago.

It doesn't look good.

Did you come out okay?

Wes

Oh, yeah. But I got a new wading pool in my basement. d8-)

All is well, thanks. Everything is drying out pretty well.

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Ed Huntress
A question...how does one recover from flooding when you have no power
like so many affected by Irene?

No pumps, no vacuums, no lights.

How are you and your neighbors coping with the cleanup when one does
not have power?

We have power. My house lost power at 2:00 AM during the hurricane, when a
tree branch fell on our pole drops from across the street. My neighbors
did
not lose power, so, early the next morning, I ran an extension cord from
my
neighbor's garage to my house.

Meantime, the water in the basement had risen to almost 7 inches. The sump
pump didn't actually pump it all out. After the rain stopped, the level
went
down 4 inches without the pump running. It just ran down the sump hole and
out under our slab. Very strange.

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Ed Huntress





Thanks for any insight into this.

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Interesting...sounds like your water table went up and then went down.

TMT

I don't think the water table ever went up. The ground near the surface was
just soaked. We had a storm that dumped 5.6 inches the week I was away on
vacation; a week and a half later, we had another 10 inches.

It was too much. It just backed up in the basement. But it must have been
draining out the bottom all the while. When the rain stopped, it kept
running out.

The same thing happened to a friend on the next block, with a similar old
house.

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Ed Huntress