This is Off Topic but a concerned thought!

[Uncle Al]

This is but.........

How are our friends in Indiana, Ohio and the rest of
the Mid-West? I've just heard on the evening news
that 1/3 of the state of Indiana is under water. Has
anyone heard how our Mid-Western members are
doing?

Uncle Al
Duncanville, TX

[Bri]

it was only southern indiana that was flooded, chi-town south suburbs got hit too, and some of milwaukee. Didn't hear anything about Ohio yet, and if you live north of Indianapolis, then you're good.

[Sasquatch]

NC is dry as a bone with 100F temps. We could use some of that rain, but you can keep the tornadoes! We get our shot at flooding later on - August and September, when hurricane season peaks.
sasq

[Uncle Al]

Bri----
Thanks for the info. We have friends in Evansville,
southwestern tip of Indiana. I guess we'll try to
contact them. We have relatives around Fredricksburg
Virginnia and they have been out of touch since the
storms a couple of weeks ago. I hope the tornados
did not get them.

Uncle Al
Duncanville, TX

[JRMILLER]

Ohio remains high and dry. In fact, we could use a little rain on the flowers!
-john

[Since1982]

If you live in Tornado country, you have to either put up with tornados every now and again and hope they miss you or move elsewhere. As I can see the only "weather free" state is Nevada, except for a few man made fires and/or thunderstorms, which, if you live up on the side of the valley instead of in it, usually miss everyone anyway.

Same thing in Hurricane country like where I live. The Florida Keys are right in the middle of Hurricane Alley and North Florida is just as tornado prone as Oklahoma and the midwest.

[SkirtDude]

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[Sasquatch]

I had water halfway up my front steps the day after Floyd. Luckily it never made it into the house I had then and the crawl space dried out eventually. It killed the heat/AC unit, but thinds could have been much worse - and were worse for thousands in eastern NC. Odd thing is that the house was actually on relatively high ground and nowhere near a stream or river. Debris plugged a road culvert and backed water up into the neighborhood!
sasq

[Uncle Al]

To All----This is an excerpt from a post made to the Theatre Organ
List I participate in....

<snip> As many have seen on the national news, the Midwest is
being beat to death by tornado's and flooding in Iowa, Wisconsin,
and Indiana.

As of 8pm Central time in Cedar Rapids we are very much in
anticipation of what is considered a "500 year" flood. Massive
evacuations in river surrounding neighborhoods, bridges with water
lapping their sides and we have not reached the peak flood stage.
This is to occur sometime Thursday evening into Friday morning.
<snip>

I hope this doesn't happen and I do pray that no life is lost to any flooding!

Please, let's keep our Mid-America members and families in our thoughts
and prayers. For that matter, All residents in the area need our prayers.

I just wanted to bring everyone here an update on the storm damaged
Mid-America. Also, check out cnn.com and look at the tornado damage
that went through an occupied Boy Scout Camp. 93 people including 25 adult advisors
were at the camp when a tornado ripped it appart. The scouts ranged in
age from 13 years to 18 years old. There have been 4 confirmed deaths at the camp.
Names are being withheld pending notification of the families.

A Saddened Uncle Al
Duncanville, TX

[Since1982]

I had water halfway up my front steps the day after Floyd. Luckily it never made it into the house

I had the same thing during "Wilma" in 2005. I own a dbl wide Mobile home on a canal in the Keys. The problem with living on a canal is in case of a flood all the water that comes on your property is saltwater and ruins everything it touches. Fortunately my indoor floor is higher than normal, 6 steps up instead of the normal 3 so I didn't get any water IN the house either. However, my central A/C which had all the equipment under the home was ruined and now I use window units. My canal is polluted and no one should swim in it so I had a jacuzzi for swimming, it was also ruined by the flood. All the electrical was burned up as it was hot when the storm hit, my bad for not turning off my electricity before escaping personally to the mainland Miccosukie Casino/hotel for the duration. I can't help being a chicken in the case of hurricanes, I stayed here during Andrew..huge mistake.

[sapphire]

All of the cat fanciers in Iowa seem to be OK. For some reason they seem to choose homes on high ground.

However, again from the fanciers list, the evacuations have included animals and emergency animal shelters have been set up. One emergency shelter has taken in 1,000 animals so far. The animal shelter in Cedar Rapids is completely destroyed. The animals were evacuated prior to the flooding.

In Paradise, CA a wildfire has caused much damage. The town is evacuated. One CFA judge and her daughter responded to the animal emergency and evacuated dogs, cats, chickens and horses.

[crfriend]

All of the cat fanciers in Iowa seem to be OK. For some reason they seem to choose homes on high ground.

Things look more dicey for a friend and fellow computer-collector in Iowa City; his house is just outside the 500-year flood-plain, and the water is lapping at the low side of his property. He figures he's got about 3' of freeboard before the house starts taking water -- and the river isn't expected to crest until late Monday. And his world-class collection of DEC PDP-8s are in the basement (he and his family have been evacuated to a point higher up the bluff they live on and are staying with neighbours).

He's also "off the air" and incommunicado via e-mail and other computerised means as the University he teaches at is off the air (likely either power related or the flood has reached the basement where the main firewall is located).

[crfriend]

I heard from my friend and fellow computer-collector in Iowa (USA) the other day and he states that his house is fine, that there was about six inches of clear (and that's a good sign) water in the basement (which'll need pumping out), and that likely his collection of precious antique computing artefacts is intact and still runnable. I take this a very happy news.

The focus now shifts to downstream on the Mississippi River and the decaying infrastructure of levees that protect so many people....