Scary Fiero experience (Page 1/2)
formulaWA DEC 05, 02:15 PM
Nov 16th Tuesday morning. Nice sunny day after a few days of heavy rain I get a call from my neighbor. He says it is not good we have been ordered to evacuate. I take a quick drive down the road and around the corner and see this




I head back to the house and my wife is already grabbing everything she can and putting it in the truck. As the water is rising quickly last thing I do is run out to the barn and to try and save the Fieros.



Grab the Yellow one run it down the road across the culvert that has water up to the top already and up the hill to safety and then back and get the red one. Water is now over the culvert and the red one splashes through the water and up the hill to safety. Way closer than I liked.

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R Runner DEC 05, 02:29 PM
Holy Cow!

WAY too close. That would make me really concerned. I trust everything turned out okay? Family?
FieroMontreal DEC 05, 02:57 PM
Wow that is a scary story! I'm glad that you were able to save the cars! Is the house and the family ok?
rinselberg DEC 05, 04:22 PM

You should be part of a photo like this. Like the guy standing in front, closer to the photographer.

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cvxjet DEC 05, 04:39 PM
You guys up in WA have been getting all of the west coasts' rain- While we down here in CA have been high & dry since the one big storm in Oct. Glad to see you took proper precaution with your two Fieros but I am worried about what will happen to your house...
hyperv6 DEC 05, 04:40 PM
Been there seen that. We got into major floods in the mountains in WV one night.

A little creek went about a quarter mile wide.

We had water washing off the mountain and against the house.

We got through it as the house was high enough to miss the water but many were not.
Patrick DEC 05, 04:42 PM
FormulaWA, you probably haven't seen this recent PFF thread... Flooding in British Columbia

B.C. floods from the air: Aerial photos and videos show devastation




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Originally posted by Patrick:

We quite often get a lot of rain on the west coast... but damn, last weekend was something else! Although it was plenty wet here in Vancouver, the torrential rains thankfully had negligible impact on the city itself.

However, an hour (and further) east from here, it's a different story. Many mountainsides that were raging forest fire infernos just a few short months ago, became totally waterlogged this past weekend and ended up sliding down... taking out rail lines, power lines, natural gas pipelines, highways, and vehicles (with people in them). Thousands of farm animals have drowned. It's quite a mess, and it'll take a long time for everything to get back to normal for a lot of people in this province.

I'm wondering how our Fiero friends made out just south of us in Washington State. Hopefully, everyone's okay.



I was thinking of you!

The series of "atmospheric rivers" hitting the Pacific Northwest finally subsided a few days ago. Fingers crossed that BC and Washington State are now on the road to recovery.

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RWDPLZ DEC 05, 05:29 PM
If you're evacuating a natural disaster like that and have 2 cars, take both cars (unless one's out or nearly out of gas), in case one breaks down halfway and leaves you stranded. Just stay in visual range of each other.

Looks like some REALLY high hills behind that barn, maybe clear a path up there for future use as a parking spot? Water's not getting THAT high.
formulaWA DEC 05, 06:08 PM
Ultimately we lucked out. I always knew we were a bit higher but on that morning I had no idea if it was high enough. Turns out the water split at the end of the road and flowed down either side of our property leaving our house and 10 others on an island for 5 days. A lot of nearby neighbours had their houses submerged
TheDigitalAlchemist DEC 09, 10:35 AM
Wow! So glad your home (and Fieros) weren't flooded. Weather's been so bad the past decade. Hope the rest of the winter is uneventful for you.

ps -Check your email regarding the red Formula.