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Hampton Roads Flood

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jboncher01

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Well my cherokee survived driving around through the flooded roads for the last 2 days in up to 3 feet of standing water....did find some holes in the floor boards doing it though...:looney:

i'll post up some of the pictures that were taken by a nieghbor of my house and the remnants of my civic when i get them it was supposed to be submerged to the winshield in water. and about 2 feet of water into the house. the whole area where i live is still closed off to traffic because of the flood waters. guess thats what i get for living on a peninsula that is 4 blocks wide and made out of sand. :idea:
 
btm757 said:
That would be down at VaBeach Ocean Front. They have all kinds of things like that, dont ask me why, i think the tourists like pointless things that are out of place
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OOoo trust me, I know all about stupid tourists...
My parents home is about a 1/4 mile away from a place called "Conner Prairie".
Its a living history museum if you know what that is. Its a whole replica town from the 19th century.
Anyways this year they decided to install a new attraction which is a helium balloon that goes up and down on a tether.

(This contraption: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXHjq7teUAw)

The horrible part is that on any nice day outside, you can clearly see this giant orange orb floating up and down through the tree line.

Drives me nuts...

/rant
 
Yeah it was fun i do wish i had been higher up though. Tons of cars stalled in the water. A guy i work with saw a Mercedes CL550 which is a $100,000 car that went swimming, along with the picture of the Aston Martin up to the windows in water.
 
btm757 said:
Yeah it was fun i do wish i had been higher up though. Tons of cars stalled in the water. A guy i work with saw a Mercedes CL550 which is a $100,000 car that went swimming, along with the picture of the Aston Martin up to the windows in water.
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ah seeing the aston would make me upset. those are great cars.
 
I live in Tourist country, The Poconos, we get em from NYC, LI, NJ, then we get more of them during race weekends, thank god thats only twice a year now.
 
I didn't get the chance to take many pics (working 12-14hrs a day) during the storm/aftermath, but I must admit that getting calls all night to come out a pull fullsize trucks (and a bunch of ricers) out of "puddles" was nice. I think the "heep" earned some rep points this weekend:rof:

Now I get to drain and re-fill the diffs and extend the vents past the cowl-- anyone know if you can fit the vent tubes in the "A" pillar? I've got to get them either inside the cabin or up to the roof.
 
I tend to agree with the smell-- just haven't figured out where it should go yet. I was also thinking it could be run into the snorkle and terminate in there somewhere, but who knows. I'm just glad I decided to put the doors on Wednesday, as the water was definitely higher than the half doors and flowing pretty quickly!
 
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