My shop is underwater!! Flooding in illinois

Ive seen the street where our shop is get pretty high with flood water but this is crazy. I have a foot of water in my shop right now and its still rising. we had to wade through waste high water just to get to the door. Hopefully tomorrow the water will drop and we can get it cleaned up. Its a mess!!

I just painted the firewall my dads 37 chevy coupe in the backround and put the big block in it on friday, lucky i got it in or else that motor would have been on the ground and filled with water.

I have a fresh 331 cadi with hydro on a dolly on the floor that is inches away from being under water,im kinda nervous to see it in the morning,


Heres our parking lot



And the street to the shop..

 

Wow, that's terrible!

 

Hope everything works out OK for you guys...and everyone else in the area!
A shop is bad but someones home is much worse!!!

 

Holy CRAP, that sucks! Hope you have good insurance. There is a lot of stuff on the brink of getting really messed up (not counting what already looks really messed up).

I am only about 90 miles from you and was feeling bad cause I couldn't get outside to work today with all the rain. Not feeling so bad now...

Good luck with getting through that.

 

CRAP!!!!!

Let me know if I can help. I have a raft!

Adam

 

dude that sucks... hope you can get everything dry and clean!

 

I'll second that!!
Sorry to see that..i sure do hope it start's dropping and soon..for you and everyone else who's dealing with this disaster...

 

All that makes me want one of those jet-ski things.

 

I think that puddle extends to my house! Need me to watch for anything to float by? I had 4 inches in my pole building, got lucky on the embroidery shop. Aug 4th I wasnt so lucky. Here are pics, http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/ind...iewPicture&friendID=150826685&albumId=1787280

think the waters got my connection jacked, cant upload to photobucket anymore. SLOWWWWW now.

Good Luck with the clean up man!

 

How fast would water run in if you were to keep the doors shut and run a pump to get it out of there? When I lived up in Iowa many years ago, we had a shop that would flood occasionally due to development and a change in the runoff. We had pretty tight doors, and an 1 1/2 trash pump could stay well ahead of the water that leaked in through the doors, as long as the water outside wasn't more than 8-10 inches deep. We'd pump water out a window, same one we would crawl through to get in the shop when it was flooding.

 

Man, sorry to hear that. But you have at least one consolation, unlike the guys in the gulf states, it isn't salt water. Keep bailing... Gary

 

I feel for you. As some know my folks and us got our storage units flooded out last year. Cleaning up from a flood is a bitch, I am still finding stuff I need to clean

 

sorry to hear that your swimming up there. we get alot of water here when the hurricanes show up

 

thought we had some water issues that sucks

 

Damm dude that sucks...

 

Dame that sucks good luck with the clean up . Sorry to see that

 

Hope everything turns out okay,I'm really diggin your coupe,if I was close,I'd buy you a huge bottle of booze,so you could get some sleep .

 

Man that sucks, I hope everyhing works out for you. later shawn

 

that sucks.

seems like weve been getting the '100 yr. rain' every 6 months or so..

could be worse though.

good luck w/ the clean up.

 

Man that is a sight that turns a guys stomach. We had a shop that flooded once and that left over silt gets everywhere. We scaped the floor for about 6 months straight and it seems like we could always find more of that shit lurking in the corners and underneath the damndest places. I hope thing get better for ya soon >>>>.

 

Sorry Bobby, Hope you get up and going soon.


Adam

PS, Glad I got that 235 before this happened.......J/K

Good luck and if ya need a hand let me know.

 

that really sucks.... if you don't have a pressure washer you're gonna need one... it sucks cleaning up from a flood...

 

what a mess sorry man , order a couple of cases of Gibbs to spray every thing down
that was under water

 

Sorry Bobby this rain was unbelievable.

 

that sucks, jack stands might help on the cars

maybe some other things could be raised up

 

big investment- jack stands the really big ones. good luck with your clean up

 

WOW.................It's hard looking at these pictures. Good thing it didn't go higher. Good luck with the clean up. I'm sure all HAMBERS fell for you.

CRUISER

 

Gutted! Awful to see images like this. I Hope what was lost is covered.

 

You should totally send this story into the paper, or Time Magazine, with this photo!

~Jason

 

man that sucks,

where were all the jack stands when you need em?

JEFF