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July 10, 2006

Floods - Wall to wall water...

Got Insurance?

Thats the name of todays news... Why I haven't been keeping this page updated and why I have not responded to any orders, queries, questions, and other email.

On June 27th at about 7AM there came a rap on my front door. Wrapped in a blanket I answered, bleary eyed and in a foul mood for being awakened.

There stood the next-door neighbor "We're being evacuated!" she said.

I looked out on to the street to see 6 inches of water running down the street. "Oh, Okay..." She ran off and I turned to my landlord, she was aleady going to wake everyone. I took us an hour to round up everyone and get out.

We were sent to the school. No one took this seriously and we all thought we'd be home for dinner.

At 2:30 PM I got down to see that there was 2 feet of water running down the street as swift as the river its self, and it was back flowing into the rest of the town.

Needless to say we were not aloud to leave the evacuation center until the water receded. That was on Monday the 3rd.

I want to take a moment here to thank the volunteers that ran the evacuation center at the Sidney centeral school. With out them and the help of the small businesses of the town we would all have gone nuts. The Red Cross didn't show up until we were sending people home to start the clean up process. Our evacuation center which was holding 200 plus evacuees and 50 volunteer firemen from around the east coast was wholely held together by the people of the village.

To them THANK YOU!!
To the Red Cross... Learn something form their success! Or get out of the help business!

Now comes the hurt...

The road to the small warehouse I rent to hold all the books was out. Closed because there was water over the road in one place and the engineers were worried about the bridge on the other side. So I was cut off for another 3 days.

I finally got in to start clean up on the 7th. It took 3 days of hauling to clear out the soaked books. They were too far gone by the time I got to them to try to save them. Anything that was closer to the ground than three and a half feet was ruined.

That said, once I have power back - yes we are still waiting for power to return to our block. I'm currently using the computer at the local library, and do not have access to the data base and can not reply to emails (I can still read them). - I'm going to be taking the data base off line. I need to do a complete inventory to see what is left.

Right now I believe that I have lost 75% of the stock. Or a loss of about $250,000.00

Harlequin Romance, Mystery, and Sci-Fi/Fantasy I know were hit the hardest with losses of close to 90%.

My time on this computer is coming to an end.

I'll have more for you in the near future. As well as some pictures. Probably more rants about the Red Cross and FEMA too.

More info about the flood can be found at The Daily Star Flood of 2006

Posted by derstaffo at July 10, 2006 01:15 PM

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