Dead Horse Interchange

Excellent! I trust you, Kugel-kun, to just DEW IT. You Germans actually build the dike around our river in the 60s and it held up remarkably well - it didn't break, it was overwhelmed by sheer water volume. I'm not even sure our government actually paid you guys for the full $60 million dollars it c...

So the houses weren't flooded too badly? Thankfully, no. I was pretty pessimistic because a few blocks down the neighborhood, water rose up to the ceiling, but somehow it didn't affect us too much. It's not like we live on top of a hill or something that would make you say, "water will never flood ...

I spent the last two days in my houses with my brother, to guard our stuff from looters. There's an improvised neighborhood militia trying to keep everything safe, but there's only so much the can do. Two nights in complete darkness (save for candlelight and eventually cellphone light, as little as ...

It rained torrentially in the central region of the state, where most rivers' beds are located. That water flowed downstream and, combined with the torrential rain we got, caused flood protection systems everywhere to be overwhelmed, because they were projected for less water - based on previous gre...

I can't think of anything to say that will help you feel better. Moments like this reinforce to me the transience of life and material goods. I've been fortunate so far, but where I live is also way overdue for a catastrophic weather event (earthquake, in this case.) I hope you can replace the esse...

I own my place. My hopes as that my street was high enough that water didn't reach too high - some neighbors and friends told us that water stopped rising early and it may only have reached waist-high there (which would have spared us the worst). I'm going back there tomorrow, now that the flood has...

Thanks, man. It's surreal to have this kind of thing happen. I have insurance for my car, so there's at least that.

Damn. My house will probably be flooded to the roof, and I will be losing everything but the few clothes I managed to salvage and send ahead of me before the water level rose. At least I got my cats and dogs out, and I'm sheltering with family and pets at a good enough place that has power, running ...

I have reserves of drinking water and a full 1k liters reservoir, but I'm afraid even going extremely careful, I'll go dry before they reestablish running water. The mayor was tking about taking 7 days to reestablish service. That might not mater in the end, because the situation is deteriorating si...

Shit. I will be out of running water for a few days - we got some serious, historical floods and the river has overtaken the water pumps and it's predicted that it will take at least three days for the water level to drop to a point where they can restart them. So I guess I'll have to become French ...