Wanna Place a Bet?

PixelRabbit · Apr 12, 2014

Ok, so this might get interesting....
We live on a flood plain, yeah yeah I know, guaranteed to flood etc lol I get it, this is inevitable :er: but 99.9% of the time living here is awesome, this is one of those off times and we will see how it pans out lol

Below is a google map shot of our property, what looks like a dry riverbed on the right side of the property is now full of water to the edge of the greenhouse and garden behind the house. The field across the road to the NW is under water and it is about 3 ft away from coming up over our driveway

. The ground is saturated to the point that the drains are running super slow and the sump is running a lot.

Roads are closing up and down river already.

This all from the snowmelt, if it was just that we would be fine...
BUT
It's supposed to rain, a LOT over the next few days, they are already predicting evacuations. We are as prepared as we can be, we have extra pumps at the ready, vehicles moved etc...

Wanna make bets on how close the river and floodplain will get? Will they meet? When? How much water will we end up with in the basement? When my mood will go from anticipation to ah crap? lol

BrickHouse · Apr 12, 2014

Better get to sandbagging! Good luck, hope everything turns out ok!

runnah · Apr 12, 2014

What a nice compound!

Yeah you are screwed, build an arc.

Ron Evers · Apr 12, 2014

Wish you luck.

At our first house we had pike swimming in the back yard in one spring melt. Now we live high on a hill.

PixelRabbit · Apr 12, 2014

Lol thanks guys

Ron, ironically the fellow we bought it from lives up on a hill now too.... Hmmmm lol

Woodsman · Apr 12, 2014

I'm on a lake but up the hill looking down on it. The water is already higher than normal for summer and the snow is just starting to melt. Flood warnings out here for the coming rain too. The hill can be a bear as I get older but times like this I am glad I am up on it.

robbins.photo · Apr 12, 2014

Ok, well before I can put any actually money down on this I have to check with my financial adviser, Manny and see what he thinks about this as a potential investment.

20140412 520 by robbins.photo, on Flickr

Umm... hmm.. I think I'm going to have to pass.

Derrel · Apr 12, 2014

Bad, bad omen on this end...I saw a small, deceased, wild cottontail bunny carcass on Sunnyside Road this AM on the way to the grocery store, laying right on the roadbed, right by a storm drain. NOT kidding...it was a most unusual sight...I'm no tea leaf-reading soothsayer, but I can "read" the really glaring, simple signs...I'm worried for you guys...I saw Mr. Rabbit's picture on his FB page, with the pumps in buckets, awaiting that bad,bad water that might come...hope it recedes and does not come up over the banks...

AlanKlein · Apr 12, 2014

Here's link to FEMA Flood Insurance maps. You put in your address with zip code is what worked for my address. No requirement for state or town. Didn't the bank check this out before they gave you a mortgage? Usually if you're in a flood plain, they'll require flood insurane when they give you a mortgage. Do you have flood insurance?
https://msc.fema.gov/webapp/wcs/sto...eView?storeId=10001&catalogId=10001&langId=-1

Hopefully it won't rain. Also check FEMA out for future insurance.

Good luck.

snowbear · Apr 12, 2014

Alan - she's in Ontario, so I doubt US FEMA will help much.

Bunny - got a boat?

PixelRabbit · Apr 13, 2014

Morning update, round 1 of rain overnight, river came up about 6 inches, pond/swamp creeped a bit but the basement ....

We have about an inch if water....
I need coffee.

IronMaskDuval · Apr 13, 2014

PixelRabbit said:
Morning update, round 1 of rain overnight, river came up about 6 inches, pond/swamp creeped a bit but the basement ....

We have about an inch if water....
I need coffee.

My in-laws have two creeks running behind their home, and it has been raining so much that the banks have widen because the land would get so saturated, it falls off.

PixelRabbit · Apr 13, 2014

IronMaskDuval said:
My in-laws have two creeks running behind their home, and it has been raining so much that the banks have widen because the land would get so saturated, it falls off.

Where about? Probably what is headed for us today, we have seen trees float by, BIG trees so its definitely eroding the banks here (Saugeen river)

IronMaskDuval · Apr 13, 2014

We're down in the south eastern US, in a place called Jawja, spelled Georgia. They have a barn, and it's been shin deep in water for days. They just bought this house late last year, and when you buy with cash here, you have no bank to go through and scream that you're living in a flood zone. For some reason, it wasn't declared a flood zone until they moved in, and the creek flooded.