gntbldr
05-24-2004, 04:16 PM
South eastern WI is flooded at every river and stream. Towns buildings, garages, houses, everything...
Last night I drove my pickup through a high water area and it was to the frame on my stock gmc sonoma and today on my way to work it was at the bottom of the seat on my KLR...
real trippy though with an undertow cross current and over half a foot of run off sooty mud that grabbed the heck out of the front tire to the left then to the right as if I was driving in ruts all in 1st gear and feathering the clutch the whole time.
It got so deep at one point I heard my exhaust doing the blub blub...
half way through I said to myself..."not too smart Jim... holy shitzkies... not smart Jim... Gett ouutttaaa here dummy!... "
people are using canoes to get to their homes around many different places....
not me... HAHAHA I'm riding my bike!
right now my boots and gear are drying out by a fan here at work... LOL
spooky shit :twisted:
By-Tor
05-24-2004, 05:59 PM
You are a mad man gnt, a dedicated, hardcore mad man :twisted:
olderRR.
05-26-2004, 07:58 PM
DAMN! Hope you don't lose any of your belongings like your house or anything. I've seen it on TV. WOW! Something like that has got to make you feel pretty helpless. Too bad you can't send it to New Mexico or AZ to put out some of there fires.
HAHAHAHA!! Don't you just love that feeling? All of a sudden the little voice inside your head clicks on, "HEY DUMBASS! WTF HAVE YOU GOT US INTO THIS TIME?" And your thinking, " I know, I know! Just shut the fuck up so I can get us THE FUCK OUTA HERE !!! "
:D
gntbldr
05-26-2004, 11:57 PM
HA hahaha ha... Yup. :juggle:
Anonymous
05-27-2004, 05:29 AM
sorry to hear about the flooding man, but on the inner voice, mine is always talking shit about something I have done or am fixing to do. :twisted:
gntbldr
05-27-2004, 11:02 AM
flooding is getting way better.. most roads are opening up but some people are still using canoes to get to their homes... sad but true yet funny to boot... only because it's such a rare thing and there was only two reported fatalities of two little girls getting swallowed by a river... :cry:
uhhh... fast moving water... wow there goes an upside down car!.... uh, hey let's going swimming... (silly little black girls from the ghetto go bloop blub) :roll:
gntbldr
06-15-2004, 03:00 PM
It's all happening again...
This time it's a little lower and I was ble to dry around and get some pics.
http://images.snapfish.com/33%3A%3A55%3B923232%7Ffp45%3Dot%3E232%3A %3D327%3D%3A29%3DXROQDF%3E232355%3B62666 4ot1lsi
http://images.snapfish.com/33%3A%3A55%3B923232%7Ffp45%3Dot%3E232%3A %3D327%3D%3A29%3DXROQDF%3E232355%3B62666 8ot1lsi
the dumpsters this apt. building had ... wahed away. lol
http://images.snapfish.com/33%3A%3A55%3B923232%7Ffp45%3Dot%3E232%3A %3D327%3D%3A29%3DXROQDF%3E232355%3B62666 9ot1lsi
but not (lol) is this person's garage that swept away too...
http://images.snapfish.com/33%3A%3A55%3B923232%7Ffp45%3Dot%3E232%3A %3D327%3D%3A29%3DXROQDF%3E232355%3B62666 %3Bot1lsi
Time to go swimming in the twisties:D......
http://images.snapfish.com/33%3A%3A55%3B923232%7Ffp45%3Dot%3E232%3A %3D327%3D%3A29%3DXROQDF%3E232355%3B62667 2ot1lsi
the Milwaukee river is to the left.
http://images.snapfish.com/33%3A%3A55%3B923232%7Ffp46%3Dot%3E232%3A %3D327%3D%3A29%3DXROQDF%3E232355%3B62667 3ot1lsi
and a zoom in at thet truck down the road...
http://images.snapfish.com/33%3A%3A55%3B923232%7Ffp46%3Dot%3E232%3A %3D327%3D%3A29%3DXROQDF%3E232355%3B62667 4ot1lsi
and now me going through the same water...
http://images.snapfish.com/33%3A%3A55%3B923232%7Ffp46%3Dot%3E232%3A %3D327%3D%3A29%3DXROQDF%3E232355%3B62667 5ot1lsi
http://images.snapfish.com/33%3A%3A55%3B923232%7Ffp46%3Dot%3E232%3A %3D327%3D%3A29%3DXROQDF%3E232355%3B62667 7ot1lsi
and I sure wasn't joking about the canoe thing...
http://images.snapfish.com/33%3A%3A55%3B923232%7Ffp46%3Dot%3E232%3A %3D327%3D%3A29%3DXROQDF%3E232355%3B62667 %3Aot1lsi
and if you look behind the car on the right there is their canoe... along with their other vihicles behind the trees that are... well... water locked.
http://images.snapfish.com/33%3A%3A55%3B923232%7Ffp46%3Dot%3E232%3A %3D327%3D%3A29%3DXROQDF%3E232355%3B62667 9ot1lsi
http://images.snapfish.com/33%3A%3A55%3B923232%7Ffp46%3Dot%3E232%3A %3D327%3D%3A29%3DXROQDF%3E232355%3B62667 8ot1lsi
olderRR.
06-22-2004, 09:09 PM
DAMN! GNT! I don't know what to say. In a way, it's kind of cool because it's so intense, you know, the mother nature thing. It's also kind of pretty. Everything in the pics is so green and alive.
But I'm really very sorry that you have to flood out again. That has got to really SUCK! I hope you don't lose anything or anybody you know is suffering from this. Damn extreme isn't it? Good luck bro, and be careful riding through that stuff!
gntbldr
06-23-2004, 09:17 AM
yeah, the hillbilly was having some fun...
water levels are all down now with the clay being saturated the water is going right through it at least a lot faster than when it was dry and acting as a shell for all the water tables.
I still say there is more yet to come :roll:
:D all the wetness sure makes it fun with the atv though