Keystone State Thread

This has been a record warm winter. We got maybe 8" of snow total all winter at my house.

 

New developments, piss poor water runoff management, a tad more rain than usual…

 

Do you have a basement?

 

I’ve seen similar flooding in NJ. You are further inland, but you should have seen the flooding from Hurricane Irene in 2011. It was bad.

 

We've been getting a lot of flash flood alerts for my area. Doesn't seem to get too bad on my commute in PA, only one spot. Now going into Maryland; they need to get their act together. The back roads I take get terrible during heavy rain.

The little dam on the creek across from the house has been high for a while now. It is nowhere near flood level though. Think the the worst was Hurricane Agnes in 1972. It put the little covered bridge near the house under water. Level here is marked on the right.

 

Every night I see 2 or 3 cars without their headlights on.

 

I guess you don't need a sump pump down there? My aunt's old house in Decatur, Georgia only had a crawlspace but there was a sump pump down there because the area was known to flood...

 

We didn't get much street flooding during Irene, but we lost power for two days. We didn't have a battery backup for the sump pump back then, and because we lost power so early, my parents spent the whole night in the basement bailing out the sump pit with buckets so the berber carpeting in our finished basement wouldn't get trashed. We didn't get a wink of sleep, but we saved the basement from damage; I slept in my Tacoma with the A/C cranked in the parking lot at college...

 

Do they ever see any use?

 

Behind my house...

 

When did u get an inground pool ?

 

Make sure the ark is big enough for two Tacomas of every year, generation, cab/bed configuration, and drivetrain configuration!

 

Roughly two and a half hours later, it has largely receded...

 

More remnants of flooding on County Line Road in Warminster, PA...