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Since when is 90 degrees "Hot!"?

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Since the NWS office that put that graphic out is in Minnesota I reckon. But, yeah, gonna be a sticky 90.

90 in coastal SC normally has enough humidity to make it feel like over 100.

edit: Right now the temperature is 90.3. Dew point is 78, heat index is 105.

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Since the NWS office that put that graphic out is in Minnesota I reckon. But, yeah, gonna be a sticky 90.

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I just lost looked and thought, "93 is Hot on fire? *****ies."

Inks is pretty neat, cool piece of engineering to make something last with water flowing over like that

Look at the motion radar on a weather site right now. Looks like a darn tropical depression spinning over SE texas centered on east galveston bay.

Great. Now the flood isnt the problem anymore, the *******ed government is. This isnt some ward in new jersey, people in texas can and ahould take care of themselves. Get the hell out of the way.

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Great. Now the flood isnt the problem anymore, the *******ed government is. This isnt some ward in new jersey, people in texas can and ahould take care of themselves. Get the hell out of the way.

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90 in Columbua SC is 110.

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With all of the moisture available to turn into humidity, 90 degrees will be plenty hot.

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It will be sticky, and it will be hot, but as someone who spends most of the day outside it will be nothing more than a typical June.

Anybody see the abc13 POC of a house with some type of inflatable barriers around it?

Sorry if I just bombed the moon

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Anybody see the abc13 POC of a house with some type of inflatable barriers around it?

Sorry if I just bombed the moon

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Doubt that they are inflatable, bc they would float.

http://abc13.com/1357624/

Look like water bladder dams. Know some companies in the pipeline world that use them for pipeline excavations in wetlands, creeks, and other areas needing a barrier from water.

Can't remember the name of the company... It's like Aqua Barrier or something like that.

http://www.aquadam.net/RefMaterials/AquaDam%20Applications.pdf

Not sure if this is the company or not but quite a few people make these. Always run into them at trade shows and clay shoots. First I've heard or seen of it used in a residential application.

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90 in Columbua SC is 110.

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You're in Columbia? T&P!

(Could always be worse... Orangeburg)

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Umm... What am I missing?

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Floodwaters gone. Easy to access since saturday. Roads dry. Power on. Government not letting people back in to save what they can and start cleaning up.

Ugh... at that point I think I'd head over to the nearest airport and charter a helicopter.

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Doubt that they are inflatable, bc they would float.

http://abc13.com/1357624/

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Sorry, posted and then fell asleep.

Didn't mean inflatable Bc as said, obviously they would float. Still pretty damn neat

Tbey are inflatable, you just use water as the media instead of air. Aqua-Dam is a company that makes them.

Several years ago a family over on the Trinity decided that enough was enough and they built a floodwall around their home with wooden posts and corrugated sheet tin. One of the local news channels did a long interview with them showing what they were doing. They dug a trench around the property and built the wall in the bottom, backfilling the bottom. I think they had a secondary moat that they used to collect the leaks and served as a well for them to pump water back over the top.

I searched for some pics, but it was pre-interwebs. As I recall many of their neighbors that had already fled their homes pitched in to help with the efforts. Many of the neighbors said their helping out was more of a symbolic stand.

Gotcha. I was a little confused by the rage without any additional info.

Ahh, they all start running together after a while.

Red Smart is the man you are thinking of who built a levee around his property in 1990 when the Trinity flooded again.

Houston news stations flew a chopper over daily to see if it held, and it did.

Sorry, quick google on the phone only produced this.

http://www.nbcuniversalarchives.com/nbcuni/clip/5112546303_s07.do

Someone doesn't know the difference between a moat and a levee.

assuming light flow what's the most a full size pickup can take in terms of low water crossings? 3ft? does it matter if it's lifted?

I don't know where you'd start to float... the lift would help with any flow cause it's the flow against the body panels will really get you. Though you'll feel it in the tires. I've felt flow in a deuce and a half with 8000lbs of water in the bed(yes it's overloaded).

You'll start getting water inside as soon as the bottom of the cab touches cause there are likely penetrations in the floor pan that won't tolerate inundation.

Watch the bow wave against your grille hitting your air intake. The radiator should keep it at bay for a bit, but it'll start filling the engine compartment none the less.

No flow I wouldn't go deeper than the body panels off a truck I care about.

Rough calculation, it appears to me that a 36 inch tall by 8 inch tire would displace 100 to 150 pounds half submerged, so you are 400 to 600 pounds lighter at that point. That Army truck at Ft. Hood would have been 1000 to 1500 pounds lighter.