Catwaba County, NC
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ShelleyDickison
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I hope everyone is ok. I seen it on the news this morning. I'm on the coast and we didn't get one drop.
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We are fine here in Gaston County.
Raining like the days of Noah, though.
I heard Newton and that area got something like 11 inches of rain? Crazy!
Raining like the days of Noah, though.
I heard Newton and that area got something like 11 inches of rain? Crazy!
OMG We Flooded here!OMGosh we had a major catastrophe here! We had heavy storms here
OMGosh we had a major catastrophe here! You may have seen Catawba County on the news last night. That is where we live in NC.
We had heavy storms here Friday night and live on
a dead end street. About 8 inches of rain total. The creek overflowed and we lost all power and we were trapped on our street. Everything just came back on power, cable and TV. Down town Newton supposedly has sink holes.
Water receded early this morning.
One neighbor has lived on our street 33 years and said he has never seen the creek at the back of our property flood!
The house on the corner same side of the street at the beginning of the street is real bad. He had 6’ of water in his back yard. He sits lower than us. His house is tri-level and his house flooded along with 2 cars in the driveway. They were at a funeral and one neighbor sent him a text telling his house flooded.
The photo is just across from our road on a double lane road and is a cow pasture. To the left of the end of our street is a bridge that washed out when it overflowed. You can see cones they put up on the bridge.
Much damage here in our town with sink holes downtown. Thankfully we can turn right at the end of our street and still get our.
The back of the of our 96' commercial greenhouse is at the back of the property near the creek. The back of the greenhouse flooded and is now receding. This is only the second time in the 13 years that we had water in the the back of the greenhouse. The first time it was not bad.
The 2nd photo the gray car is our car at the end of the street just after the flood started.
The 3rd photo is the part of the cow farm.
Thankfully we had no damage because our house sits on a hill and the front of 2.5 acres.
OMGosh we had a major catastrophe here! You may have seen Catawba County on the news last night. That is where we live in NC.
We had heavy storms here Friday night and live on
a dead end street. About 8 inches of rain total. The creek overflowed and we lost all power and we were trapped on our street. Everything just came back on power, cable and TV. Down town Newton supposedly has sink holes.
Water receded early this morning.
One neighbor has lived on our street 33 years and said he has never seen the creek at the back of our property flood!
The house on the corner same side of the street at the beginning of the street is real bad. He had 6’ of water in his back yard. He sits lower than us. His house is tri-level and his house flooded along with 2 cars in the driveway. They were at a funeral and one neighbor sent him a text telling his house flooded.
The photo is just across from our road on a double lane road and is a cow pasture. To the left of the end of our street is a bridge that washed out when it overflowed. You can see cones they put up on the bridge.
Much damage here in our town with sink holes downtown. Thankfully we can turn right at the end of our street and still get our.
The back of the of our 96' commercial greenhouse is at the back of the property near the creek. The back of the greenhouse flooded and is now receding. This is only the second time in the 13 years that we had water in the the back of the greenhouse. The first time it was not bad.
The 2nd photo the gray car is our car at the end of the street just after the flood started.
The 3rd photo is the part of the cow farm.
Thankfully we had no damage because our house sits on a hill and the front of 2.5 acres.
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ShelleyDickison
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Seen the news first thing this morning and thought of you all. Sorry to hear about all the flooding but I am glad you all are all right. Your in our thoughts.
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Thank you for your concerns. I knew those who know us would be worried. Or I would have put our post here. Julie you can move our photos and story if you like. So I came here first to let you know we are OK, without reading anything.
We got a reverse 911 call yesterday, first time ever. We did not even know that they had it here! So we went to the store right away. WE can not see the end of our street from our home and had no idea. We were inside when the 911 call came because it was raining so hard.
We cannot see the creek at the back from the house and had no idea the creek had over flowed until the call came in from 911.
We got a reverse 911 call yesterday, first time ever. We did not even know that they had it here! So we went to the store right away. WE can not see the end of our street from our home and had no idea. We were inside when the 911 call came because it was raining so hard.
We cannot see the creek at the back from the house and had no idea the creek had over flowed until the call came in from 911.
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Glad to hear you are safe!
That is our gray car sitting at the end of the road once we got the 911 call not to leave home. It is pointing back down the street towards our home. We did go to the store before the flooding got bad. But went the long way around to avoid we knew would be flooded.
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Glad you are OK.
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how many feet of water got into the house.
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I merged the two together. As you know I have a step son who lives east of Charlotte, so I watch the news for North Carolina (lol, I also watch the news for Bloominton, IN cuz my daughter is there and use to for Sozhou, China but that one is now home, Thank God!) and was shocked to see all the flooding going on and the roads!!!!!! are just gone!
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I sincerely hope that you and your family are ok, even though it seems like it is really bad, it really isnt, its just not normal..
I stayed at my house during ike, and when water got to 5-0 i got in my kayak and paddled east till i hit no water. I rode it out under someones carport...Next morning water started receding fast, so i let the current take me west to where I lived...
When I got there, my water level was at the gutters, with fish in them.
My new truck was upside down,my jeep was bashed to peices, and I had a new 28-0 bay boat, that has never been found.
Today, my new house door way sits, at 13'-9". above ground.
You will get better.....
I stayed at my house during ike, and when water got to 5-0 i got in my kayak and paddled east till i hit no water. I rode it out under someones carport...Next morning water started receding fast, so i let the current take me west to where I lived...
When I got there, my water level was at the gutters, with fish in them.
My new truck was upside down,my jeep was bashed to peices, and I had a new 28-0 bay boat, that has never been found.
Today, my new house door way sits, at 13'-9". above ground.
You will get better.....
Boatboy24
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Yes! I was wondering abou that too.
We are fine and the water receded from the greenhouse. A muddy mess right now. But after all it is a greenhouse..
It washed a lot of dirt down on the east side of the cellar where our lone muscadine is and we will cover the dirt back over the muscadine tomorrow.
Interestingly enough the only time the creek came up was after hurricane IKE and the rain moved into western NC.
Our daughter works in Abelmarle, she lives there too. She is a manager at Tractor Supply. She actually she lives in Stanfield.
Our youngest daughter lives in Indianapolis so we watch weather there too. She is married and has one daughter who is almost 18, our only grandchild. We watch the weather in MI too because we both have family there, that is where we are from.
The wine cellar did fine. We did not open it and it was 62 degrees still when the power came back on. Dry day and night for us since we were afraid to open it.
To those south of us, you are in our thoughts because the Catwaba River is going to over flow around midnight and effect us south of us. We have more rain coming tonight and hopefully it is not flooding rain for us again.
Frank, FAB, let us know how you fare. They just said you will be open to flooding until Tuesday am. So if you are not already flooding in your area, you probably will soon.
For those who are not familiar with NC, we don't have lakes here. We do have mountain streams. The lakes are all man made for energy but they are very large. In fact they are huge, bigger than most in land lakes in Michigan!
It washed a lot of dirt down on the east side of the cellar where our lone muscadine is and we will cover the dirt back over the muscadine tomorrow.
Interestingly enough the only time the creek came up was after hurricane IKE and the rain moved into western NC.
Our daughter works in Abelmarle, she lives there too. She is a manager at Tractor Supply. She actually she lives in Stanfield.
Our youngest daughter lives in Indianapolis so we watch weather there too. She is married and has one daughter who is almost 18, our only grandchild. We watch the weather in MI too because we both have family there, that is where we are from.
The wine cellar did fine. We did not open it and it was 62 degrees still when the power came back on. Dry day and night for us since we were afraid to open it.
To those south of us, you are in our thoughts because the Catwaba River is going to over flow around midnight and effect us south of us. We have more rain coming tonight and hopefully it is not flooding rain for us again.
Frank, FAB, let us know how you fare. They just said you will be open to flooding until Tuesday am. So if you are not already flooding in your area, you probably will soon.
For those who are not familiar with NC, we don't have lakes here. We do have mountain streams. The lakes are all man made for energy but they are very large. In fact they are huge, bigger than most in land lakes in Michigan!
The house on the corner had 5' of water inside and their 2 cars are a total loss. I don't think insurance will cover the cars. Not even sure it will cover the house. No one around here has flood insurance because it is not needed.
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Sammyk, we are fine; we didn't get near as much rain as you. We are on the top of a hill a good ways from any creeks and such; so we are OK. Thanks for asking. I do have to cross the river going into Charlotte for work tomorrow so we will see, but thus far I haven't heard any reports to be too worried.
Glad to hear all is well. Hopefully the waters will recede quickly.
Glad to hear all is well. Hopefully the waters will recede quickly.
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