What did you neglect in your preps?

[rbstern]

This is what I can't understand. My yard didn't even get really soggy. My house backs up to Army Corps Property that houses a lake that is fed by two creeks. The lake rose about two feet but nothing even came close to flooding. No water on the roads...nothing.

But then 20 minutes south of me in Buckhead, you had four to five foot tall walls of water coursing through neighborhoods.

I guess I just don't understand how things flood and why they do and don't. Same storm, same amount of rain. I suppose it's topography on some level. Peachtree Creek isn't even that big...how did it get that much water in it?

That lake is effectively a giant drain for properties near it. If it filled enough, your property would flood. ACOE is conservative about keeping lake levels low during rainy periods, for this very reason. Lake Hartwell rose 6 feet in five days. That's over 50K acres. Lotta water.

Urban areas rely on sewers to carry water away, and sewers are never as robust as natural water ways like creeks and rivers.

 

[Ken Ford]

Are you talking about getting gasoline right before the storm? Because gasoline is really complicated to keep in storage for long period of time… it will go bad… Besides the safety issue.

Gas is not hard to store, I have. 30g storage container on wheels and a hand pump.
Keep using it for yard equipment and restock at about 5 gallons it will last an extremely long time. Or ad Stabil. Either way with out reacting to certain metals it doesn’t go bad that fast. There’s also the methanol free gas.

 

[Ken Ford]

One of the best threads I’ve read in a while

Thought it would be better than a bunch of theory, what worked or didn’t work.
Learn from others mistakes and adjust for next time.

 

[BEREZKA]

If you buy one of those 5 gallon water jerry cans and store it empty until needed will it stay safe to fill with potable water just before shutdown?

Aquatainers or aqua blocks are better. They store nice and are easy to fill and serve from

 

[Psilloh1]

Was Pleased with my prep.. Since nothing happened here in ATL.... We Left Fri at Lunch at made it to our farm house outside of Dublin GA. It's a war zone the house was unscathed Power was ripped from The meter when 8 trees in our yard came down... Dealing with Electrician to repair….

 

[BEREZKA]

Gas is not hard to store, I have. 30g storage container on wheels and a hand pump.
Keep using it for yard equipment and restock at about 5 gallons it will last an extremely long time. Or ad Stabil. Either way with out reacting to certain metals it doesn’t go bad that fast. There’s also the methanol free gas.

Speaking of

https://www.harborfreight.com/150-lb-capacity-foldable-hand-truck-58298.html

These are a life saver if you need to move unweildly stuff over distance

 

[BEREZKA]

This is what I can't understand. My yard didn't even get really soggy. My house backs up to Army Corps Property that houses a lake that is fed by two creeks. The lake rose about two feet but nothing even came close to flooding. No water on the roads...nothing.

But then 20 minutes south of me in Buckhead, you had four to five foot tall walls of water coursing through neighborhoods.

I guess I just don't understand how things flood and why they do and don't. Same storm, same amount of rain. I suppose it's topography on some level. Peachtree Creek isn't even that big...how did it get that much water in it?

My honest guess is litter clogging drains and culverts

 

[Klif]

We came in from a cruise at 8:30am on Saturday morning, porting in Port Canaveral. The port was working fine. As soon as we hit I-95 heading to I-10 it all went to crap. They had cleared the fallen trees off the road pretty quickly, but there was no power and no gas stations work (and no McDonalds either). On the good side I had filled the tank just before parking at the port so we were good for about 200 miles, give or take. There were no red lights working at the exit ramps so the cars were backed up forever trying to get off.

Small trees broke, big trees got uprooted and fell. I saw a lot of trees on houses with no idea if anyone was inside and really no way to get close enough to see. Billboards were flattened. The traffic wasn't too bad. Got up I-10 and crossed the Florida/Georgia line on I-75. Started looking for a gas station. Saw one, got off, no power. Back on the road, car said 30 miles to empty when we pulled into Buckee's and they had power and gas (possibly had their own generators). Filled up, emptied the bladder, got a sandwich and back on the road. From the point on the lights were on but there were still a whole lot of trees down. As we got closer to Douglasville we had to cross the Chattahoochee and it was way out of the banks and a lot higher than I have seen it in years. We made it home and found a yard full of limbs, front and back and a lot more spiders and webs than when we left. But we made it safely.

One thing I learned for the next trip is to toss my get home bag into the car with the rests of the luggage. If we had run out of gas we would have had some food (life raft rations) and water and cover if we had needed it. As it was the only weapon I was carrying was my revolver and 17 rounds of ammo. Next trip I'll also toss in my survival rifle (.22) and an extra box of shells. Never know when someone might think they need your stuff worse than you do in these situations.

Once home we had power and AC running no problem. I have plenty of water here and a generator I didn't have to crank. But lesson there is that I haven't cranked it in a year or so and even though the gas has Stabil in it, there is no telling if it will start and I'm sure the battery is dead and I'm a little old to be pulling on the string starter.

One thing to note, while we were cruising up the ocean between Bimini and Nassau there was a tremendous storm in the distance and the lightning was flashing and lighting up the entire sky. I was about to go into shell shock since it looked so much like heavy artillery going off and that's a very uncomfortable feeling. But, when the storm passed I have never seen the night sky that clear or the stars so bright. Made me feel very, very small.

 

[AC-130 Above]

Best $60 you can spend on comms

Amazon.com

how far away do those actually work?

 

[basstracker89]

Are you talking about getting gasoline right before the storm? Because gasoline is really complicated to keep in storage for long period of time… it will go bad… Besides the safety issue.

Where have you been?? Haven't been on here much, I don't think