We had a '500 year flood' in my area a few years ago. I didn't have water in my house, or even within a few miles, but it was still an ordeal because of all the transportation disruptions and the continuing battle against the water (the flood lasted over 100 days) and then the clean up and rebuild, some of which still isn't done.
I feel for the people (not politicians) in the effected areas, the infrastructure damage is something they will have to put up with for years and the expense too.
The SC flood had little warning so they couldn't do much in the way of sandbagging and moving stuff out of low areas. We had warning, but it wasn't very accurate as to were the water was going to be so a tremendous amount of effort went into moving people who didn't need to, sand bagging buildings and roads that didn't flood, and moving equipment and raising railroad tracks and such.
Since we had some warning, farmers banded together and raised existing levees and built new ones. In some areas they really made a tremendous difference, and unfortunately, there were many places that were just doomed no matter what.
I think Tide Detergent brought in a semi trailer that was filled with washing machines and dryers. As soon as people got back to their homes, and salvaged clothing, that truck was really a good thing. I bet it turns up in SC.
Something we are really seeing now is all the trees the water killed are deteriorated enough now they are falling down and making a huge dangerous mess. There are IIRC, hundreds of thousands of dead trees within 100 miles of my location. It has really been a persistent and unwelcome reminder of the flood.
I'd suspect the SC flooding wasn't long enough to kill so many trees like happened here, I hope they don't have that to deal with that too.
I feel for the people (not politicians) in the effected areas, the infrastructure damage is something they will have to put up with for years and the expense too.
The SC flood had little warning so they couldn't do much in the way of sandbagging and moving stuff out of low areas. We had warning, but it wasn't very accurate as to were the water was going to be so a tremendous amount of effort went into moving people who didn't need to, sand bagging buildings and roads that didn't flood, and moving equipment and raising railroad tracks and such.
Since we had some warning, farmers banded together and raised existing levees and built new ones. In some areas they really made a tremendous difference, and unfortunately, there were many places that were just doomed no matter what.
I think Tide Detergent brought in a semi trailer that was filled with washing machines and dryers. As soon as people got back to their homes, and salvaged clothing, that truck was really a good thing. I bet it turns up in SC.
Something we are really seeing now is all the trees the water killed are deteriorated enough now they are falling down and making a huge dangerous mess. There are IIRC, hundreds of thousands of dead trees within 100 miles of my location. It has really been a persistent and unwelcome reminder of the flood.
I'd suspect the SC flooding wasn't long enough to kill so many trees like happened here, I hope they don't have that to deal with that too.
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