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Old 08-28-2011, 05:25 PM
Verne_Frantz Verne_Frantz is offline
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Default Re: Hurricane Irene

We're about 30mi inland (west) of Asbury Park. The storm is just above us now and it's barely drizzling. We never woke up to any high winds last night but I did wake up to lakefront property. There's about 7 acres of flood plain behind us. Our second lot is completely under water and right now the water line is about 1-2in below the floor of my storage shed. The water is expected to rise more due to the runoff, so I expect I'll have a lot of parts drying and salvage once it goes back down. Thank goodness we didn't lose power because the sump pump is running constantly and it's keeping up. Without it, we'd have 4' of water in the basement.
It could have been a lot worse........
Verne [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/rolleyes.gif[/img]




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