Sorry for the late post. I was on a 2 week hiatus for Lord knows what.
Ida ended up being the worst flood in my towns history. Personally, I lost thousands in field stored hay and there is no insurance for that.
My town saw 21’ above normal of flood water. That was 5’ higher than the record from Hurricane Floyd.
We had a skinny tornado as well. Got stuck behind it and it took me hours to find a way home.
Never seen anything like it in my 50+ years. Almost lost our railroad network here, too.
One of our local hayfields under about 12’ of water
Below- notice the car roof in the water? This picture taken many hours after water had receded. It’s was 3’ deeper at its peak.
I got caught about 2-3 minutes behind this tornado. Amazing wind & rains came with it.
I got lucky I wasn’t in one of these cars. This is the way I would have normally come home from Oxford, PA. I took an alternate way home.
I went home this way and had several trees fall in front of me. Good thing I wasn’t a few moments earlier. Took this picture while parked along the road when the emergency vehicles arrived.
These are some of the bales I lost on one of our back roads. Notice downed tree and wires. This was after the water receded about 3’. I was able to recover all of these bales, but they are worthless, soggy junk now.