Location, Location, Location...

[dangeris]

I'm sure not a lot of guys on here (except for the guys that are on my facebook) knows that I got devasted by the overflowing of the Susquehanna River yesterday thanks to the remnants of Tropical storm Lee and Hurricane Irene. I woke up at 4am to the blaring sound of an emergency vehicle stating "This is a state of emergency! You must evacuate your homes immediately!" I jumped out of bed and looked out the window and saw the river water surronding my new pool that I just put in. At that point, there was only one thing to do...Go down stairs and make what might be my last pot of coffee! After enjoying 2 cups of joe, I rolled up my sleves and went downstairs moved all of my electronics upstairs and prayed that the waters didn't go that high. My buddy came down and helped me with the rest of my stuff and moved my 2 cars and racebike to higher ground. That was all by 7am. By 10:30 when we ventured back down my street, My pool was almost consumed by the muddy river waters and when I peeked in my basement, which was a walk out, there was about 6" of water on the floor and looking at the glass on the door, the water level was up about 10" above the glass part. I felt I was in an aquarium! After we left, they closed my street down as by that time the river was rushing across the street. Dopwntown Athens had 4' of water and rising! When it was all said and done, there was 10' of water downtown and 3' of mad rushing water on the other end. We was literally trapped! It was long day of pumping water and helping others. Today, the river has gone down 2' and receding. Got word that our electric will not be restored till late Sunday and our gas a couple of days afterwards. Well I can't do anything without electricty so I decided to pack up and head to philly. Thank God the water went down enough that we can get in and out. I'll find out more later and keep you guys posted...

If you don't know where Athens PA is, here's a map
It has the Susquehanna on one side and the Chemung River on the other. I live closer to the point of the penninsula.

[AlexN09]

I'm so sorry to hear that man! I'm glad that everything's okay and you're safe. I lost an apartment a year and a half ago to 3.5' feet of water above the carpet and my house in nashville was damaged during the flooding a year ago, I feel ya

[IBCoupe]

Sucks, dude! Let us know if there's anything we can do for you guys.

[dangeris]

What sucks is that I do have homeowners but no flood because when I bought the house, they said it wasn't in a "flood zone"...yeah right...

I feel that my homeowners should as least cover content but looking over the policy, it doesn't. That's just stupid!

ord has it that FEMA is coming to the area. Hopefully I get somekind of federal aid relief...

[IBCoupe]

I'll cross my fingers for you

[downedzephyr]

best of luck! hopefully FEMA responds promptly!

[wade001]

I know exactly what you mean, we had really bad flooding at my school. I was going to go home but all the roads there are flooded or closed ! so now I'm stuck here

[dangeris]

I know exactly what you mean, we had really bad flooding at my school. I was going to go home but all the roads there are flooded or closed ! so now I'm stuck here

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Where are you going to school?

[wade001]

I have the feeling I'm not to far from you, I'm in madison county NY by syracuse. I remember a while back there was an event in PA near you that a bunch of you guys went on, i couldn't go but it would've been about a 2hr drive.

[AlexM.]

Wow man sorry to hear that

[Blackmobile]

that's rough, hope everything gets sorted out. important thing is that you're safe, and that you saved your cars and bike of course

[Rob.Vegan]

Sorry to hear about the damage but I'm glad you had time to save the possessions you needed to.

[DJ_B_Easy]

Saw your pics on FB Darryl. Some crazy stuff. I had that going on in my neck of the woods last week with Irene. Hope it all works out for you.

[Marisha]

Damn! Hope the damage isn't too bad and that you get something to cover what needs to be done/replaced. Sorry to hear about it D!

[PHENOMenalVinyl]

saw the pics hope the whip was out of the way but thats in the garage still?

[dangeris]

Damn! Hope the damage isn't too bad and that you get something to cover what needs to be done/replaced. Sorry to hear about it D!

At this point, It seems all of the damages will be out of pocket cost because I didn't have flood insurance...but then again I was told by the insurance company that I didn't need it because I didn't live in a flood zone.. I should sue them for their incompetency!

saw the pics hope the whip was out of the way but thats in the garage still?

The coupe, sportbike and BMW are all fine..,

My pool, basement and oter stuff didn't do so well

[IBCoupe]

At this point, It seems all of the damages will be out of pocket cost because I didn't have flood insurance...but then again I was told by the insurance company that I didn't need it because I didn't live in a flood zone.. I should sue them for their incompetency!

Did they actually advise you not to buy flood insurance? Do you have a record of that? Depending on the severity of the damages, it might be worth it to talk to a lawyer.

[dangeris]

unfortuantely no..everything was verbal....as well as all of my neighbors. Perhaps a class action suit might be good and teach those peckerheads a lesson!

[IBCoupe]

Haha, I don't know if a class-action suit would be advantageous or not. That's probably a very fact-specific claim. But seriously, even if you don't have documentation, depending on how hard you're about to be hit in the wallet, maybe you should spend an hour with a lawyer talking options.

If all else fails, write up a letter to your local newspaper if the insurance company doesn't want to help you out.