Yeah last year me, Diana, and a (very) few others in our street were vacuuming up water in two houses across the road from us. I concentrated on the house where the owner was terminally ill in a bed on the ground floor.
I had to move him and his oxygen equipment so we could get the water out. It took hours and would have been quicker with more help but there were many in the street closed their blinds and pretended to not know this was going on.
I have their cards marked.
I ended up cutting all the downstairs carpet into strips and chucking it into the front garden. Made it much easier to get the place dry. The guy was dying from an asbestos related condition and I didn't think him sleeping on damp carpets was going to be good for him.
His poor wife was in a right state. But we got him set up in a dry spot and I gave her a cuddle and a cup of tea before getting stuck into the cleaning up.
They got new carpets fitted within a couple of weeks and he died a month later in dry comfort.
Posted: Sun Sep 15, 13 6:43 pm
by drewcrane
Dave wrote:Yeah last year me, Diana, and a (very) few others in our street were vacuuming up water in two houses across the road from us. I concentrated on the house where the owner was terminally ill in a bed on the ground floor.
I had to move him and his oxygen equipment so we could get the water out. It took hours and would have been quicker with more help but there were many in the street closed their blinds and pretended to not know this was going on.
I have their cards marked.
I ended up cutting all the downstairs carpet into strips and chucking it into the front garden. Made it much easier to get the place dry. The guy was dying from an asbestos related condition and I didn't think him sleeping on damp carpets was going to be good for him.
His poor wife was in a right state. But we got him set up in a dry spot and I gave her a cuddle and a cup of tea before getting stuck into the cleaning up.
They got new carpets fitted within a couple of weeks and he died a month later in dry comfort.
Yea this story was in my head as I was cleaning up
Posted: Sun Sep 15, 13 8:10 pm
by AllKiller
Glad your OK drew been following this on the news here and was thinking of you ??
Hope all get better soon.
Posted: Mon Sep 16, 13 7:56 am
by Adam
Terrible to see this. Looks like that 3rd photo was taken in Dillon, where we stayed in February. Thoughts are with the folks of Colorado.
Posted: Mon Sep 16, 13 12:41 pm
by Dave81
You can tell even from some of the still photo's the ferocity of that water in Drew's pics...........Must be bloody terrifying to have the road disappear from underneath you to only get dropped into what must feel like a washing machine...........
Crazy weather as you say..........Hope the ones in the third picture made it out ok!
Posted: Mon Sep 16, 13 2:30 pm
by drewcrane
Dave81 wrote:You can tell even from some of the still photo's the ferocity of that water in Drew's pics...........Must be bloody terrifying to have the road disappear from underneath you to only get dropped into what must feel like a washing machine...........
Crazy weather as you say..........Hope the ones in the third picture made it
out ok!
yea that is lake Dillon road , and yes they all got out , the guy in the smaller car in the fore ground did have to be rescued , but he made it and about a half hour after this pic a huge debris clump came in and wiped all 3 vehicles down stream they just disappeared
Posted: Mon Sep 16, 13 8:32 pm
by Adam
Scary stuff. Glad to hear they made it.
Posted: Tue Sep 17, 13 1:22 am
by drewcrane
I found some raw footage Big Thompson canyon (this same area flooded in the 70s but not this bad) , amazing un cut and if ya have the time to watch the whole 8 mins ,the fire department is performing a rescue ,all the the sae time the hiway is being destroyed ,just amazing sound and power of the water
Posted: Tue Sep 17, 13 10:19 am
by TW71
Thats a jaw dropping sight, bet it makes you feel like moving to Arizona Drew!
Posted: Tue Sep 17, 13 12:57 pm
by Dave81
........ Just amazing what water force can do!
On the plus side, that looks like a fantastic road Drew.....Skirting the river in the valley.....stuff of automotive dreams!
Give me a good drivers car, a dry day and it'd be like heaven!
Posted: Tue Sep 17, 13 1:59 pm
by drewcrane
No Arizona for me even hotter and those dust storms no thanks,
and yea some of these roads are just plain awesome the sheer canyons, and sharp corners , you should hear the car blasting through the canyon walls it carries on for ever, but it will be a bit before anyone gets on Big Thompson
no thanks,