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[Aqizzar]

Wait a minute, moved from Saturday (as in yesterday?) to Thursday?  What kind of flood has a give-or-take of five days, and can be predicted as such?  Is it a controlled flood?

[Org]

So, how high do you have to make it so there is no chance of water flooding in?

And how long has it taken?

[Strife26]

Next Saturday. They moved that up from the original plan of early april.

There's no way to ensure total saftey. They're predicting 40 feet, so we'll go for 41. We'll almost certainly get some serious seepage in the basement. If the water gets over our wall, the basement, and lower level are uder water (to the cieling for the basement, two-and-a-half feet for the lower level.

[Heron TSG]

wow, I'm glad I don't live next to a river that overflows it's banks by 40 feet. (O_o)

good luck!

[WorkerDrone]

Obviously the answer is 42 Feet.

Hah. Wait..what are you-


OHSHI-

[Strife26]

Actually, it over flows its banks at 16.5 feet.

If it gets to 42, I''m coming after you Workerdrone.


Well, It is currently down pouring here (still remaining JUST cold enough to see your breath though). We've got reports that say to expect a blizzard on Wed. By buying a LONG rope, we were able to drag the lawnmower up with a pickup truck. The first try, my Gradfather didn't tie his knot well, and the rope slipped. Luckily, it only hit my mother in the boot, I hate to think how much damage it would have done anyway else, we iced it.

I've been put into an awkward place with school. I'm needed here, but the quarter end on WED. I have three major tests to make up, and some old homework and stuff to do. I'm going to pull an all nighter tonoight (did I mention that I got 24 minutes of sleep on Friday?) and try to finish everything, then go for a half-day (JROTC, test, spanish) after sandbagin till 12:30.

[Aqizzar]

Surely if there's a fucking 40 foot flood due on Thursday, the area would be postponing school functions?  Skip class anyway, and bring pictures of your house turned into an island if they don't believe you.

[Strife26]

If you get a signed sheet, you can skip.

I once saw a thermometer that showed the relative effects of temperatures.

40 degrees => Panic in Florida for frost. People in Fargo drive with windows down.

32 => Deaths due to cold in California. T-shirt weather in Fargo (Me today, for example)

-30 => Dakotans let the dog sleep inside.


0  K => Absoulute Zero. All molecular movement stops. Fargo Public Schools cancels class.


We've already had a snow day this year. Two I think (we have to make them up now).

[Heron TSG]

I know the feeling, strife. I live in Washington and my Mom's boyfriend's nephew came over with his girlfriend from Florida. 65 degrees inside and 21 degrees outside. Inside, she was wearing two blankets. Outside, she had a parka that she had bought, rated for -50 degrees.

That day, I wore a t-shirt and shorts just to piss her off.

[SirHoneyBadger]

I'm from Pennsylvania originally, and moved to Utah, so March for me is barefoot weather.

Edit: What am I saying? every day is barefoot weather for me, if I can help it.
I hate wearing shoes. Socks even moreso. I've been barefoot in 5 feet of snow before.

I planted over a hundred onion plants today, and probably 60 Swiss chard.

I also dug an irrigation channel that was about 60 feet long, too. Between the digging, the hand-tilling, and the planting, that was my exercise for the day.

Did it in the middle of a hailstorm, too. 

About half the garden is left to do, and it may actually end up being harder than the first half, since that's all new ground I broke just last year through this year. It's partially tilled, but still pretty rough.

I may end up having to break more new ground this year, in order to plant the strawberries and the tomatoes, since I'm starting to run out of room.

If so, that will be a real bitch, since it'll mean clearing out a bunch of tough old vines before I can even start breaking the sod up and tilling.

That'd be a good thing, ultimately, because those vines are homes for a whole lot of bugs I don't want living near my garden.

All of this is a lot of fun for me, ofcourse--although with the economy the way it's going lately, it's economic, too.

[WorkerDrone]

I hope Strife DOESN'T come after me...I live in the USA to. DO YOU KNOW HOW EASY IT IS TO OBTAIN A BUS TICKET DOWN THE WEST COAST? I ASSUME ITS EASY, BUT HAVEN'T TRIED. THIS MAKES THIS ALL-CAP RANT REDUNDANT.

*Barricades the door.*

Why didn't I ever invest in that armoury of medieval and anti-zombie weaponry?!


But back on topic.

I say, if you can, add on several more feet of sandbags, just for the hell of it. If you have the time, I say don't stop building it up. Keep at it while you can, just in case the water gets higher then you thought it would. However, if you think you won't have time to build it up to a height where flooding would be almost unheard of, I suggest you get to moving crap out of your basement.

[Strife26]

It's a big house to ring-dike. My dad's old work has been outrageously helpful. People from third shift have been sandbaggin continously. It's still raining, and we've ran out of sand. The hammerdrill broke so we've had to stop working on the East face.

[WorkerDrone]

Rocks?

[inaluct]

Can't stack them tightly enough or in great enough numbers for it to be worth it.

[WorkerDrone]

I meant in the bags. Small ones.