If we get a major hurricane this year, Cat 3 or higher (Raleigh: real estate, apartment)

[Bethanytedder]

Originally Posted by luckydog

I just thought about something else...

I'm really out of my element with the areas further west than the Piedmont region, so perhaps someone can verify, or correct this info...

I think sometimes the mountain regions of NC get a massive amount of rain with these hurricanes & it caused mudslides, flooding there with lives lost & really ugly damage. I'm pretty sure I'm correct, but maybe someone more informed can chime in...

Asheville is a perfect example of this. I can't remember exactly which storm it was but it was one of those that hit Florida during 2004 and 2005. I want to say it was Jeanne. Someone correct me if I am wrong. I know someone posted a picture of the flooding in Asheville during which ever storm it was.

[luckydog]

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Another Hurricane...sorry I forgot which one...brought some severe wind/imbedded tornado/hurricane damage to Raleigh areas, some years back. It affected my relatives in Siler City too. Seems like that was right before I moved to Raleigh. Probably 8-10 years ago, I'm guessing.

Thanks Bethany...I was referring to Fran & just couldn't remember the name.

I had forgotten the Pinetops flooding with Dennis...had family there trapped.

[luckydog]

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Originally Posted by luckydog
I just thought about something else...

I'm really out of my element with the areas further west than the Piedmont region, so perhaps someone can verify, or correct this info...

I think sometimes the mountain regions of NC get a massive amount of rain with these hurricanes & it caused mudslides, flooding there with lives lost & really ugly damage. I'm pretty sure I'm correct, but maybe someone more informed can chime in...

Asheville is a perfect example of this. I can't remember exactly which storm it was but it was one of those that hit Florida during 2004 and 2005. I want to say it was Jeanne. Someone correct me if I am wrong. I know someone posted a picture of the flooding in Asheville during which ever storm it was.

I know it wasn't a terribly long time ago that I remember watching the news coverage of it...seems like there was a little girl washed away in the flood water? I remember her.

[Bethanytedder]

I vaguely remember that happening, to the little girl that is. After I lost my son when he was 4 in 1982, I have a tendency to try not to dwell on the other children that die too young. It is very depressing and takes me back to a place that I never want to be in again. But Fran was something else. If any one storm made me question our decision to stay here, it was her. If we had left during Floyd, there is no telling when we could have gotten back home although we personally were not flooded at all. It came within 3/4 to a mile from the house. Snow Hill is 75 feet above sea level and the highest point of the county is in the western part of the county at some 138 feet above sea level. So it is ripe for flooding with the Neuse River nearby and the creek as well. Floyd flooded the dog pound. They called me to find Jackie which is my godchild's aunt. She was the acting dog catcher at the time. She took a row boat to the pound, took a hooked pole and got the door open and one cage opened and the dog in it swam out to her. That was the best she could do. All the rest of the animals perished and they have since moved the dog pound on Hwy 903 where the land is a little higher.

[luckydog]

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I vaguely remember that happening, to the little girl that is. After I lost my son when he was 4 in 1982, I have a tendency to try not to dwell on the other children that die too young. It is very depressing and takes me back to a place that I never want to be in again.

That's very, very understandable & I think part of healing. I sincerely express to you my very heartfelt & deep condolences.

[luckydog]

Floyd flooded the dog pound. They called me to find Jackie which is my godchild's aunt. She was the acting dog catcher at the time. She took a row boat to the pound, took a hooked pole and got the door open and one cage opened and the dog in it swam out to her. That was the best she could do. All the rest of the animals perished and they have since moved the dog pound on Hwy 903 where the land is a little higher.

That's ghastly. I'd forgotten about seeing the coffins & bodies all around until this. The drowned animals. Just all of it. I guess I had just pushed it away into far reaches of my memory. All this hurricane talk & heartbreaking remembrances of them is beginning to get to me today. I have take a break from it.

Off to tee-ball practice for me!

[Bethanytedder]

Originally Posted by luckydog

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That's very, very understandable & I think part of healing. I sincerely express to you my very heartfelt & deep condolences.

Thanks. It has been 24 years this September since Benjamin died. But he died instantly and I don't think he suffered so that is of some comfort. I nearly hit a little girl on her bicycle Monday when my oldest sister was with me. I thought I was going to go into a panic. Since Benjamin was hit by a car, I am very conscious of the way I drive particularly in this part of town. And it paid off this time. If I had been trying to make the stoplight before it changed to red, I would have hit her without a doubt.

[Bethanytedder]

Originally Posted by luckydog

That's ghastly. I'd forgotten about seeing the coffins & bodies all around until this. The drowned animals. Just all of it. I guess I had just pushed it away into far reaches of my memory. All this hurricane talk & heartbreaking remembrances of them is beginning to get to me today. I have take a break from it.

Off to tee-ball practice for me!

Have fun at tee ball. I wish I could get outside but I have so many allergies and lupus that it makes it impossible. I think our brains tend to divide what we can and can't handle and the bad goes out at some point. Which is a good thing. Oh while we are on this, be sure that you use kersone lamps for lights if the power goes out instead of candles. Candles have a tendency to be forgotten and can burn down a house that prior to that didn't have any damage. I guess a kerosene lamp knocked over could do the same thing but they seem to be a little safer than candles.

[mm34b]

Originally Posted by Bethanytedder

Asheville is a perfect example of this. I can't remember exactly which storm it was but it was one of those that hit Florida during 2004 and 2005. I want to say it was Jeanne. Someone correct me if I am wrong. I know someone posted a picture of the flooding in Asheville during which ever storm it was.

We had 2 in the Asheville area during late summer of 2004, Ivan (9-2 to 9-24) & Frances (8-25 to 9-8).

Hurricane Ivan



Hurricane Frances

[Bethanytedder]

Thanks. There were so many that hit Florida in those two years that I got confused with the names. But let me tell you all a funny story about our neighbor. He is about 51, slighly younger than me. His wife works for the IRS and he is a retired Marine sharp shooter or whatever they call them. Anyway this incident happend about 2-3 years ago in March. Mind you the air temp was 37 degrees. They have this above the ground pool and the cover is still on it but a cement block somehow or the other fell into the pool. He dives in there butt naked to get the block and of course the water is probably close to freezing. Also mind you, this was at midnight or a little later. All of a sudden the phone rings and it is the wife telling Chris she needs him right that second that "Bob" is drowning. So he goes over there in just his underwear to get him out and he has just surfaced by the time Chris gets there. After he gets out him out of the pool, I went over there to check him out since I was a nurse in the 80's and he does have a heart condition but he was fine. By this time Gwen has found the men both robes to put on. But you can only imagine this sight in the middle of the night. I asked "Bob" what in the world was he thinking to do such a stunt in the nude no less. He was concerned the cement block would tear the lining of the pool. As I am standing there thinking and wondering how a seemingly intelligent man could pull such a stunt, it struck me as to how hilarious it was and no one could make up stories like this about the life in the south. I should write a book. I swear "Bob" is good material believe me. He locks himself out of his own house so much that I have a spare key to his house.