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An Even Bigger Mess!
« on: November 02, 2012, 12:08:12 PM »
Jesus, and I thought RI was in bad shape. What I can never quite grasp is how somebody can spend thousands of dollars on a boat, then leave it out there to get smashed. It's not like there wasn't plenty of warning. Even a lunatic like yours truly had enough sense to lash down the skiff and stick the canoe in the garage.

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Re: An Even Bigger Mess!
« Reply #1 on: November 03, 2012, 07:23:21 PM »
nasty stuff man. There's probably alot of guys who are members here and customers of ours who got hit with this.
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Re: An Even Bigger Mess!
« Reply #2 on: November 04, 2012, 09:05:56 AM »
Yeah, it's a damned shame. I still can't believe how bad Jersey got smacked. That kind of damage is what you usually see from a category 3-5 storm. We're really counting our blessings here, we really dodged a bullet on this one. Hope Handy did OK. 
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Re: An Even Bigger Mess!
« Reply #3 on: November 04, 2012, 02:57:26 PM »
http://www.abc.net.au/news/specials/hurricane-sandy-before-after-photos/

they got smacked for sure... hover your mouse left and right over each image, for before and after...

now... I gotta ask... would you rebuild???

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Re: An Even Bigger Mess!
« Reply #4 on: November 06, 2012, 10:39:22 AM »
Not a chance. Our NY house was smack in the middle of the raging Neversink River in 2005 during a catastrophic 500-year flood, (32,000 cfs at our place) and it was nothing short of a miracle that it survived. The water filled the cellar up to the rafters, but spared the living quarters. Needless to say, the property was wrecked, and a third of the houses in our village were wiped out. I never spent another restful night in that house. Every time rain was forecast, my stomach knotted up. If we'd lost the house, we'd have taken the insurance money, donated the land to the town, and run like hell. Once it happens to you, the "oh hell, it can't happen here" bullshit goes right out the window. What the pictures don't show is that many of the houses that appear to be intact are likely to be condemned anyway due to water damage that doesn't show from the outside. IMO, nobody in their right mind would put themselves in a position to go through that again. There are always plenty of damned fools who are willing to roll the dice, but it's just like a casino. The house always wins - it's just a matter of when.
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