She did it again

[Koliedrus]

(Edit: Note the timestamps)



Shit happens. (http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/local_news/article/0,1406,KNS_347_1035469,00.html)

Mother nature kicks ass.

[Koliedrus]

Ankle deep as I write. Nothing much I can do.

[Koliedrus]

Retaining wall is spitting. Not "splitting" yet. Spitting.

Several holes broke loose when the pressure of the yardlake increased.

Fuck....

[Koliedrus]

Rain's stopped but the lake still spits through the wall (outside). I rigged up some garden hoses for drainage inside and out when this began but they can only siphon so much.

[Koliedrus]

Easing up.

[Koliedrus]

Fuck! Kicking back up!

I could use a joke right about now.

[Smug Git]

I knew a joke about Noah, but I have forgotten it.

Damn.

Sorry to hear about the worsening situation.

[FunkaY]

Shit Kol..all I can say is good luck =\
Stupid rain..stop damn it!

[Mudflap]

Kol, I can relate. Be careful.

[Mr. Snrub]

An Italian, a Jew, and a Chinese guy all begin working for a construction company on the same day. The boss says:
"Ok, Mario, you go paint that wall over ther. Goldman, you go nail those boards over there. Yan, you're going to be in charge of the supplies. Everybody got it?"
All the men nod, and Yan walks off towards the supply shed. An hour later the boss comes back to find Mario and Goldman sitting where he had left them.
"What are you guys doing?! You're supposed to be working!!"
"It's the Chinese guy, he's never come back with the supplies. He walked over there, and we haven't seen him since."
So the boss begins walking to where the guy had pointed to look for Yan. As he turns a corner, Yan jumps out of nowhere and yells...
"Supplies!!"

[Koliedrus]

:)

[Mr. Snrub]

An Asian man walked into the currency exchange in New York with 2000 Japanese yen and walked out with $72. The following week, he walked in with 2000 yen, and was handed $66. He asked the teller why he got less money than the previous week.
The teller said, "Fluctuations."
The Asian man stormed out, and just before slamming the door, turned around and shouted, "Fluc you Amelicans, too!"

[MuffyTheVampyreLayer]

Good luck Kol, I hope you guys don't take too much damage. You got flood insurance?

[TotalAnarchy]

Thats why I love living in a reasonably raised area, with good drainage.

Hope the flooding doesnt get too bad, mano. Good luck. ;)

[Billyman]

err......ah.......oh shit Kol! Good luck man!:eek:

[MAC]

*theMAC manages to stop laughing at "supplies" long enough to type something serious*

Ahem...

Kol,
Contact me for dry cigars I'll have them forwarded as soon as the roads are clear.

We must keep our priorities straight.

....um
if randy quaid is your sheriff and you see christian slater driving a brinks truck past a big church that minni driver is refurbishing...get the kids and get out...and don't take rides from morgan freeman

[Goatboy]

You are in Tennesse?

Can you not just raise your house on a few more cinderblocks to escape the flood?

[Mudflap]

1. Fuck you Goatboi.

2. Anyone heard from Kol lately?


---Mr. Concerned

[mute]

:eek:

[Cruise Director]

Kol.... good luck man.

TOP!

Anybody heard from him?

[Smug Git]

Originally posted by Mudflap
1. Fuck you Goatboi.



Again, mudflap tries and fails to control his sexual desire for goatboy, the frustration erupting from his mouth as insults and filth.

'When good gays go bad'. Tut.

Hope that Kol is dealing with the flooding. Maybe they cut electricity (or it got shorted).

[Rabble Rouser]

*builds a higher shelf and places the jar there, safely above the floodwaters*

Good luck, Kol.

[Koliedrus]

We're ok. Took some damage but nothing that'll kill us or our spirits.

Ease up on Goatboy. That shit actually made me smile.

Years back, we organized a family reunion to be held near here. Some of our Northern cousins expressed concern about having to go around barefoot and evacuating in outhouses. I suppose it's true that ignorance, fear and prejudice walk hand in hand. ;)

The foundation of our house is undamaged. The contents of the lower level are another matter. What does matter is that my family is safe and we'll get through this.

I'm taking a break from the cleanup.

[MAC]

*theMAC stops packing boxes with copies of penthouse magazine and good bourbon and RUNS to his puter*

there you are!

Glad to here that everyone is ok.

KEEP

US

POSTED

!!!!!!!1111

[Koliedrus]

Give me a moment and I'll copy what I wrote to the HyperJumpers.

[Koliedrus]

--- In hyperjumpers@y..., ". Mudflap" <warthawg@h...> wrote:
> Kol, I know your area is having some heavy rainfall, but I assume
you live
> in a flood plain and that you DO have flood insurance. Right?
>
> Keep us updated and on your situation and let me know if there is
anything I
> can do to help.
>
> BE CAREFUL. Too many people died around here 3 years ago during
our "500
> Year Flood" because they left their common sense on the night stand.
>
> --Mudflap
>

Thanks, guys. We're all unharmed. Unfortunately, I don't live in a
flood plain (that didn't come out right), we live near the top of a
good-sized hill. Almost a mountain but not by Tennessee standards. As
a result, no flood insurance.

The "hill" continues up from my back yard for about 50 meters. I'm
guessing that the difference in elevation between the house and the
top of the hill is about 20 meters. Rainfall of roughly 23 cm (9
inches) fell in this area over two days. My back yard is flat so it
did sort of act as a mini flood plain. It had no place to go so it
invited itself into the lower level. Ankle deep. While it was
raining, I heard spillage outside the downstairs door. When I opened
it, water was coming over the retaining wall and spurting through
cracks in the mortar. The top of the retaining wall is a little over
2 meters above the downstairs ground level. A few years ago under
similar conditions, I watch my neighbor's retaining wall fail and
demolish two cars. I didn't want that to happen to us so I moved ours
a safe distance away.

Then, all I could do was wait, move what I could, elevate and secure
any electrical connections and make plans for the immediate future.
I'm still doing that. We're going to lose a lot once it's all sifted
through but most of that will probably turn out to be shit we needed
to get rid of a long time ago. I may have to harden my heart and
swallow my tears if I come across a video or photo album that took
damage. The one's in locations I could recall under the circumstances
are safe. So are the people in them. That's a good thing and what
matters most.

Whelp, that's my update. I have a job ahead of me but it isn't
something that I can't do. It's too soon for us to say we're in or
out of the Jump but we'll do everything we can to be there.

Be well, guys and keep working on it. I'm in even if it turns out
that I can't be "there".

Michael

[rage]

glad to hear you are ok. I just got back and would hate for you to be gone from here for any lenght of time! :) ok, so that's selfish, I know. If I didn't live a couple of states away, I would be more than willing to come help w/ the clean up and repair, but since I can't, I'll say

"good luck, and hope everything works out smoothly for you!"

[Koliedrus]

Originally posted by Mr. Snrub
An Asian man walked into the currency exchange in New York with 2000 Japanese yen and walked out with $72. The following week, he walked in with 2000 yen, and was handed $66. He asked the teller why he got less money than the previous week.
The teller said, "Fluctuations."
The Asian man stormed out, and just before slamming the door, turned around and shouted, "Fluc you Amelicans, too!"

You're hired!

Just as I was reading that I got a phonecall from Mrs. Kol. That woman makes me strong. I'm here with Kolpup and a shitload of work ahead and my family takes the advice that I've been giving them for years and turns it back to me.

One step at a time. We'll get through this.

Yup. I'm ok. It's not all about them, though. You guys make it easier to deal with. Thank you.

[estero]

Kol, you can live with me if you need to. You and the entire Kol familia :)

[Koliedrus]

Originally posted by Kaye
Kol, you can live with me if you need to. You and the entire Kol familia :)

Out of the question. You have those eyes ;)

The house is in good shape. The stuff sitting on the lower level is mostly salvageable. It's gonna stink for a while, we may have to replace the carpet down here and work on better drainage but the upstairs is untouched.

Tell you what, though. Have a baby girl with eyes like yours and we can introduce her to my son/clone.

[Escape Artist]

Originally posted by Koliedrus


You're hired!

Just as I was reading that I got a phonecall from Mrs. Kol. That woman makes me strong. I'm here with Kolpup and a shitload of work ahead and my family takes the advice that I've been giving them for years and turns it back to me.

One step at a time. We'll get through this.

Yup. I'm ok. It's not all about them, though. You guys make it easier to deal with. Thank you.

In 5 years, it'll be a minor annoyance you recall on occasion.

In 10 years, it'll be "the flood we had in '02" which you tell your kids about.

Right now, it's a load of shit most people wish someone else would shovel for em. :)

Hang in there.

[Koliedrus]

Originally posted by Escape Artist


In 5 years, it'll be a minor annoyance you recall on occasion.

In 10 years, it'll be "the flood we had in '02" which you tell your kids about.

Right now, it's a load of shit most people wish someone else would shovel for em. :)

Hang in there.

Don't you fucking muscle in on my job by getting all wise and shit!

On the other hand, yeah :) Couldn't have said it better myself.

[Escape Artist]

Boy, with that mess you've got on your hands and the fact that you're a computer geek, you need all the muscle you can get, intellectual or otherwise. :p

Tip of the day: Build next retaining wall out of reinforced concrete, landscape in drainage points for back yard.

Tip #2: buy case of beer, drink half before starting, finish the rest while you work. ;)

[MAC]

puter geek deals with flood

This is macMACsterson at the home of one of the affected puter geeks lets talk to him now

sir, sir is it true that your Jollybox 2 was in there with you brand new copy of Approximate Apocylpse MCXXIV in it?

Where any of your 186 Tandy converted linux boxes harmed?

Is that the only "1337-(\/)07|-|3r-f0k3r" coffe mug you have left?

Are you going to photoshop a picture of the ark into your insurance photos?

Do you think this is the work of the aqueous h4X0r?

Did you have your freeware insured?

Is this all really gonads & strife?

If I keep asking you questions will you send us up teh bomb?

[Koliedrus]

Bah! I am Kol, lover of flesh and binary; master of the 5hp 16 gallon wet vac!

Fear me!

[rage]

heh...now that was pretty funny. (hopefully Kol. will laugh) Can't wait till august, when we go pimp the ho's at chili's and drink a few beers.... :P :)

[Mudflap]

Glad to hear you and yours are okay, Kol. Backing out of the Jump is not an option. Sell a kidney if you have to.

I know the way to your part of Tennessee. I can be there in 8 to 10 hours (depending on traffic). Holler if you need me.

[Goatboy]

Glad to see you kept your sense of humour whilst others were busy abandoning the perspective ship

[Mudflap]

Fuck.
You.
Goatboi.

I didn't lose perspective. I have a different perspective. Two years ago, myself and my neighbors had to deal with this:

http://www.nandotimes.com/nt/images/floyd/floyd085.jpeg

http://www.nandotimes.com/nt/images/floyd/floyd051.jpeg

http://www.nandotimes.com/nt/images/floyd/floyd050.jpeg

I'm sure you and your superior perspective will find these images nothing short of hilarious. Laugh it up.

[Goatboy]

You were hosting the 200m pig crawl for the animal olympics?

[mute]

good to see Kol's okay :D

[Billyman]

Kol-ok=good

Kol-back=good

Kol-ok and back=good

I love Kol.:D

[Koliedrus]

Trying to keep a sense of humor (http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/weather/weather/0,1406,KNS_372_TYS,00.html) isn't the easiest thing in the world.

Here comes the rain again...

I think I'll watch a movie later. I picked up A.I. a little while ago. If it isn't already there, someone who's seen it give me a write-up in Heft.

[gone away]

*thanks whatever allmighty there is that kol's aight*

place wasn't the same as we waited to hear word from you dude

:) good luck kol

[Koliedrus]

It's back.

Writing this for timestamp.

[Goatboy]

Keep an eye out for amphibious attack pigs.

[Koliedrus]

That short downpour turned what was once a damp washcloth into a saturated sponge in some parts of the room.

I've talked to Mrs. Kol and told her to keep the kids at my mother's for yet another day so I can clean up.

I called work to emphasise my situation.

"Well, I don't know if we can do without you but I'll check..."

Fuck!

[Rabble Rouser]

Originally posted by Mudflap
*snip*

PIGGIES!!!!

Those are so cute!

[Billyman]

Originally posted by Rabble Rouser


PIGGIES!!!!

Those are so cute!

Yes they are, but you did realize these are all dead right?

[Princess_Heather]

I bet that pig pile doens't smell like bacon...

Kol - my prayers are with you. If I was your neighbor, you can bet Joe and I would both be at your place helping you out. In fact, if you really needed it, we'd fly out from Seattle for a week.

This has been quite the wild month as far as weather is concerned. Today is the first day of Spring and it's been snowing piles since I woke up - snow is usually unheard of in Seattle - let alone in MARCH.

[Rabble Rouser]

Originally posted by Billyman


Yes they are, but you did realize these are all dead right?

Nooooooooooooooooo!!! *cries* :(

[Mudflap]

Originally posted by Goatboy
Keep an eye out for amphibious attack pigs.

I wonder if there's anything on God's green Earth that you give a fuck about. Besides finding humor in other people's misfortune.

What a small, little, pathetic man you are.

Kol!

Hang tough.

[Goatboy]

You sure you want to leave it there?

You can sidetrack Kol's thread some more by telling us all how horrific it was that some pigs died by a calamity of nature instead of at the end of a percussion gun.

[Mudflap]

As usual, you think small. My concern wasn't so much with the pigs but with the farmers. Their livelihood destroyed. You wanted to see the dead chickens, turkeys, and cows too? What about the ruined crop land? Or the destroyed homes?

Threads get sidetracked. Floods happen. You remain pathetic.

[SimpleSimon]

Originally posted by Mudflap
As usual, you think small. My concern wasn't so much with the pigs but with the farmers. Their livelihood destroyed. You wanted to see the dead chickens, turkeys, and cows too? What about the ruined crop land? Or the destroyed homes?

Threads get sidetracked. Floods happen. You remain pathetic.

I second that!

[Goatboy]

The moment your approval holds meaning for me, I'll make a point to be crushed.

You're right, I couldn't care less about your farmer friends. I care about making fun out of the misery you suffered from the event. It gets me hard.

Goddamn it if you haven't figured me out. I am here solely to torment you in your sad, squalid little life, with your delusions of sentience and your pretensions of empathy.

THAT'S why I posted in this thread, merely to draw you into my web and make you shed a tear over a few dead pigs and their teary eyed farmers.

Remember, every post of mine you ever see in this place; its about you. Be sure to respond to them all, lackwit.

[Mudflap]

Turn about is fair play.

[MAC]

"satyrist"

"often Satyr Greek Mythology. A woodland creature depicted as having the pointed ears, legs, and short horns of a goat and a fondness for unrestrained revelry."

unrestrained revelry

he lives up to his name quiet well

and its all in fun while the fun is in it all

[Smug Git]

Originally posted by Mudflap
Turn about is fair play.

This is a gay reference?

About taking turns as to who is packer of fudge and who is getting packed?

[Koliedrus]

/me goes back to drying out the carpet and ponders selling a kidney...

[Escape Artist]

Originally posted by Koliedrus
/me goes back to drying out the carpet and ponders selling a kidney...

Replace carpet entirely? Not sure I'd wanna keep it considering the condition it's likely in now...

[Koliedrus]

Guess what.

You guessed it.

[Koliedrus]

Just got word that an apartment complex a few miles from here collapsed (http://www.volunteertv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1133598&nav=4QcHE1Pt). Makes me feel all lucky and stuff.

More rain in the forecast.

[Billyman]

Hang tough Kol. Get your galoshes out.

And a fishing pole! Capatilize on the situation. :)

So what's the temps like?

[MrsKol]

temps right now are in the fifties, however tonight they are suppose to drop and we may see some snow. The roads are flooded out, the emergency crews are urging people to stay home. I baked this great apple spice bundt caked for my Adult sunday school class, with fresh strawberries on the side. Guess it won't get there. Correction, it didn't get there. Stayed home and kept the kids occupied. Some of their books were destroyed in this last flood. I'm not sure what else, but it's time to toughen the heart and realize we are all alright.
The apartment building that collapse, it was actually three building, affecting about 280 people, and NO ONE was hurt. It occurred around 300AM in the morning. That is a damn miracle that no one was hurt.

MAC, if you would still like to send the bourbon, I'll could use it, for medicinal purposes of course... ;-)
It gets cold working on the clean up.

[ms. bing]

ill pack it up for you even if Mac doesnt.

[MAC]

MAC look sat the empty bottle*

umm......I tell you what, I'll pick some up on the way.

just say the word.

[PB]

has the government there not offered to buy your home type of thing due to this???

a friend of mine in Houston got flooded, and the state of texas is buying out all the houses in that very glitzy neighborhood, they all of course have to find a new home and move, but they are getting a good price on the house, and some extra for the new home. It's a shame she only got the house in september when she got married. it flooded around thanksgiving, and they are still searching for the new house.

i hope that your situation works out.. if ya need us, we are here.

V,