One Family’s Experience with Disaster when the Floods Came

[driver]

This was an interesting and quick read about the 2013 floods.




http://www.itstactical.com/intellico...e-floods-came/

[Hummer]

A well written article describing the events that so many living in the mountains and foothill communities experienced at that time. Thanks for posting it.

"I was there", or here, during the flood. Our homes and property were significantly impacted but fortunately our places on the river are higher in the drainage where the river bed and shores were not scoured and devastated like the areas at lower elevations. Just 3 miles downstream, trees and power poles collapsed, log jamming and crashing bridges into bridges into houses. Some 23 of the 37 bridges in the canyon were washed out. Three years later there remain cars stranded across the rivers in the mountain canyons.

Prepping with stored foods, water, energy, and bugout bags in the event of flood and fire are so important here.

[GilpinGuy]

Excellent read.

What a crazy time. Those floods and one reverse 911 call to "prepare to evacuate" due to a fire 1/4 mile from our house really stepped up my game. That call and the smell of smoke in the air got my juices flowing and I realized how woefully unprepared we were (I really thought we were good to go if need be....not even close). Better now, but still working on it. Always.

It's so easy to forget and get lazy.

[KestrelBike]

Excellent read.

What a crazy time. Those floods and one reverse 911 call to "prepare to evacuate" due to a fire 1/4 mile from our house really stepped up my game. That call and the smell of smoke in the air got my juices flowing and I realized how woefully unprepared we were (I really thought we were good to go if need be....not even close). Better now, but still working on it. Always.

It's so easy to forget and get lazy.

Did they call you on your cell or did you have a land-line?

[GilpinGuy]

Did they call you on your cell or did you have a land-line?

It was on the cell - we have no land line. The cell numbers are what we have listed for the emergency notification system.

[pickenup]

For the flood, they called us on the land line we had at the time. We have VOIP now, so I do not know if we would get a reverse 911 call.

One of the stories we tell is about that reverse 911 call.
The wife heard the call, stuck her arm over the side of the bed, didn't feel any water so she rolled over and went back to sleep.

Out of everything we lost, the one that hits the hardest is the pictures. We had been using a disk camera for years. We were in the process of moving when the flood hit, and one of the things that was still on the floor to be moved was those disks. That was around the time that Photobucket "upgraded" their software and locked me out of my account, which I had with them for years. Causing me to loose all the pictures I had stored on their site.

We do not work very fast anymore, but in a few months "hopefully" we will have restored the house that got hit the worst in the flood.
It is after the disaster that is the hardest.

[BushMasterBoy]

I am pretty sure you can have your VOIP phone registered. Might have to contact your local sheriff, LE or Emergency Operations Center. It could be worth looking in to. Sorry for your loss.

[GilpinGuy]

You can give them any phone number, at least in Gilpin. You have to register with the notification center though. It isn't automatic for everyone. Again, that's the way it is in Gilpin. I have no clue about other areas.

[pickenup]

Thanks guys, I'll check it out.