RAIN!!!
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This rain is insane ! Here in Long Island, it’s been non stop almost everyday for over two weeks with a torrential rain fall for about 30 min accompanied by thunder and lighting that looks and sounds like an Army artillery battery firing at once 😱
Ok I don't have any real damage per say but 1 of my neighbors had to move because the damages we're so extensive. They live in the house that leaked all the heating oil. It was on the radio that the state is taking the blame for the damages. They scrapped a retention Basin in the Garden State Parkway widening project.
nothing, that I know of, can prepare us for this weather stuff. It can be crazy. I'm kind of glad my garage is up on an incline, just maybe 6" from the street.
Here I'll put the flooding in perspective for you guys
In the foreground is my front lawn looking up my street these pictures are taken from my driveway where I work on my cars so you've all seen it in the background in my threds
the white mailbox next to the police officer in the road he's mine. these three pictures were taken by my neighbor that morning while I was still at work. This next one is township drone footage
So to explain that picture I'll go left to right. The flooded homes in the neighborhood on the left is a gated gated retirement community called Greenbrier where approximately 100 people needed to be evacuated from. the tree line is a buffer where their fence and barbed wire runs two separated from the rest of the town. The river is not a river at all that's my Street burrsville Road. The next tree line is actually an overgrown drainage ditch and where the parkway fence runs to separate the Garden State Parkway from the common residents of Brick Town such as me. The pavement far right is the actual Garden State Parkway shoulder. My house is just out of frame top right.
These next pictures were taken by me or my neighbor Maddie way later that day after I came home from work. I borrowed my neighbor Wayne's Boat and when through the flood and took some pictures.
at some point during the day the water was actually much higher that's my neighbor Steve kerivan in my neighbor Bob's driveway across the street and it has a water line on the rocker panels and tires and Bob's Garage was full of water.
that house and that Honda Accord where a total loss and the people that live there are no homeless.
Here's some more of my boat ride.
this is looking through that buffer zone of trees into the retirement community from my street it's flooded straight across.
cheap car!
this picture needs a little explanation what you're seeing sticking out of the water is the top of the parkway's eat foot Cyclone Fence behind that you're seeing a guardrail and Garden State Parkway North.
and in this picture that's a black Lexus floating in the right lane and that's exit 91 brand new traffic light off in the distance I actually paddled all the way up to the intersection.
apparently what brought this on besides the flash flooding was when the parkway was going to do the road work that they did to widen the Parkway and add more exits in my area the original plans got scrapped to save money when it was approved by the residents there was supposed to be a sound wall behind my house and my two neighbors houses and they were supposed to put in a retention Basin to take on all the water and runoff that would be additional due to the road being 14 ft wider they didn't instead they ran the water into existing Town and County ditches when they filled the pump station down the street from my house could not handle the load of all the extra water and it flooded us shutting down the pumps I have a picture of the pump house underwater also.
pretty sure you're not supposed to submerge the entire pump when you want to use it in water. so they worked all night brought in a backup pump put it on Piers temporary beers it looks quite ghetto on my dad and actually got the water to go down by the next morning however all the oil leaked out of the in-ground tank at the totals house and it was a mess so the fire company was here booming off the house entirely too late because the oil had already saturated everyone's Lawns up and down the block if you go back to the aerial shot you can see diesel fluid fuel floating on the surface of the river that supposed to be my road. So here's our mud Flats at low tide the next morning
And just for fun some idiot in a row boat that speak Oldsmobile lol
In the foreground is my front lawn looking up my street these pictures are taken from my driveway where I work on my cars so you've all seen it in the background in my threds
So to explain that picture I'll go left to right. The flooded homes in the neighborhood on the left is a gated gated retirement community called Greenbrier where approximately 100 people needed to be evacuated from. the tree line is a buffer where their fence and barbed wire runs two separated from the rest of the town. The river is not a river at all that's my Street burrsville Road. The next tree line is actually an overgrown drainage ditch and where the parkway fence runs to separate the Garden State Parkway from the common residents of Brick Town such as me. The pavement far right is the actual Garden State Parkway shoulder. My house is just out of frame top right.
These next pictures were taken by me or my neighbor Maddie way later that day after I came home from work. I borrowed my neighbor Wayne's Boat and when through the flood and took some pictures.
that house and that Honda Accord where a total loss and the people that live there are no homeless.
Here's some more of my boat ride.
apparently what brought this on besides the flash flooding was when the parkway was going to do the road work that they did to widen the Parkway and add more exits in my area the original plans got scrapped to save money when it was approved by the residents there was supposed to be a sound wall behind my house and my two neighbors houses and they were supposed to put in a retention Basin to take on all the water and runoff that would be additional due to the road being 14 ft wider they didn't instead they ran the water into existing Town and County ditches when they filled the pump station down the street from my house could not handle the load of all the extra water and it flooded us shutting down the pumps I have a picture of the pump house underwater also.
And just for fun some idiot in a row boat that speak Oldsmobile lol
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I won't be surprised if the local gov raises your taxes for having waterfront property.
Get it while you can!!!!
The price can only go up from here on in!!!!!!
https://longisland.craigslist.org/cto/d/hot-rod-custom-fiberglass/6660709021.html
The price can only go up from here on in!!!!!!
https://longisland.craigslist.org/cto/d/hot-rod-custom-fiberglass/6660709021.html
I just went out and took some dry shots for you to compare
I tried to take those pictures from about the same perspective that I took the other ones now these are walking back toward my house and I took some shots of the water line on Steve's Caravan Wheels to give you an idea how much I are the water actually was. Also those are black top driveways that's not concrete you're looking at silt all over them.
I tried to take those pictures from about the same perspective that I took the other ones now these are walking back toward my house and I took some shots of the water line on Steve's Caravan Wheels to give you an idea how much I are the water actually was. Also those are black top driveways that's not concrete you're looking at silt all over them.
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