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To: Constitution Day

Yeah, I saw it. Is your cabin in the Red Zone? Are you on the 64 or 97 side.


124 posted on 07/21/2006 7:44:05 AM PDT by FearlessFreep (Excuse me. But are those your legs or are you riding a chicken?)
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To: FearlessFreep

It's on the S side of the river, the 64 side. I live not far from there, just outside Rocky Mount.

The cabin is definitely in the Red Zone. During Floyd there was 7' of water inside.
There has been a cabin there since the 50's when my grandfather built the first one, but some jackass burned it down in 1989.

We rebuilt it with concrete block the following year, so not only is it nearly fireproof, we can just pressure wash it inside and out when it floods.

Usually if we know it's going to flood, we will put the furniture up where the water can't reach.

However the water rose so quickly after the remnants of Alberto that we couldn't get down there, and now we've had to trash all the furniture.


134 posted on 07/21/2006 7:49:47 AM PDT by Constitution Day (Down with Half-Assery!)
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