Loading ...Your suggestions and well wishes are gratefully received. These hurricanes sure are good for building supply business. Unbelievable numbers of people at Home Depot today. Flooring, sheetrock, wainscot, tools, etc, are huge sellers. It’s leaving the stores as fast as trucks get unloaded. Big money changing hands. Suppliers and contractors raking it in. Fema helps the lower income and homeless eventually. For most part, they offer low interest loans through SBA programs. If you have decent income they don’t have much to offer. Most people in my area had no flood insurance. It never flooded like this in many of the hardest hit areas. Very unnatural amount of rain in short period. I had 32 measured inches in three days. Then the storm stalled and dropped another 20 to 30 inches from one evening till the next morning about 7am. Truly unbelievable rainfall. Between 50 and 60 inches total. Some say 62 measured. I lost track during the last night. Finally fell to sleep near midnight. Woke at 3am with daughter calling concerned. Watched water rise two more feet between 3am and daylight with nonstop pounding rain. Not storm surge. Just rain so hard and so long it could not run off. We have had a wet summer and ground was already saturated. Very few people in my immediate area have flood insurance. Our homeowners policies won’t cover flood damage. Whole area has taken a big hit again. Once retired I’m leaving the area. Had enough. Higher ground in my future. Family on Moms side settled here in late 1800’s. We have our own family cemetery named after my great grand mother. Hard to leave deep roots. But the frequency and power of these storms make it hard to stay comfortable. I could stand to see some minors run and run hard about now. Would really help put a smile on me. Or silver. Aren’t we about due for for a run to new highs? I need enough grass to run about a hundred head of cattle. Southeast Oklahoma near Ozarks looks about right. 300 acres of rolling hills backed up to timber country with a creek, a comfortable home or two and a few barns and a shop. Run silver run. I dare you.
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