Posts tagged carpets

• Town of Nederland Road Conditions Update at 11:20am Please be advised — roads are softening across the town due to the ongoing rains. Some areas are inaccessible — including the Big Springs neighborhood at Peakview Road and at the intersection of Alpine and Big Springs Drive. All residents are urged to stay off all roads. Do not attempt to drive around any cones or barricades.

• Magnolia Road Update at 11:45am: #97 between Magnolia Rd and #72 is now impassable. Road is flooded and washed away in spots.

None of these images is of his area nor house, but it’ll give you the confirmation that one of the major problems is and will be the severely eroded and continuing to erode soil ….    His short email says it all for them :

Coal Creek Canyon

Here are a few photos taken on our walk through Blue Mt. yesterday.  We are just one small community of hundreds affected by this epic storm.  I’m sure the cost of it all will be into the billions.  Coal Creek Canyon just to our west is washed out and will take months to repair, stranding the few thousand folks on the west side of the washouts.  They will still be able to get out, but it will take an hour or two to get to work, normally a 30 or 40 minute drive.  The only impact to us so far is the loss of natural gas so cold showers and no heat, not that we need heat right now.  Unseen are the tens of thousands of flooded basements in neighborhoods that from the street look unaffected.  Damage for each of those will be in the thousands to replace carpets and furniture.  Few of us have flood insurance.  Just last week we were worried about the threat of fire.

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