Record Flooding in Missouri

[digitS']

Good news, Rich. As long as you can stay on higher ground. This sort of thing must not have been expected since there was zero snow to melt!

... Just thinking but how come I have the internet when it comes in on the phone line.
Go figure!!!!

Well, I tried to! Read the wrong stuff.

I now have DSL also. High frequency over old-school copper wires ... how did it happen that we were told of the critical need to subsidize a coaxial cable only to have so much co-use of what has been hanging around for the last 100 years? Now, it looks like there are two huge networks requiring maintenance.

Low frequency is for voice ... maybe high frequency is more efficient and needs less juice ... that's a w-a guess.

Steve

 

[so lucky]

Around here today some things got better and some got worse.
A few roads were reopened and a major hwy was closed most of the day.
We don't have any phone service and they're saying it'll be Sunday before it's fixed.
Just thinking but how come I have the internet when it comes in on the phone line.
Go figure!!!!

THANX RICH

That is strange!

 

[baymule]

Sometimes nothing works but cell phone texts. I used to be on a horse forum and when members got slammed by hurricanes, we had a text buddy we could contact. Our text buddy would go on the forum to let everyone know that we were ok. I had a text buddy for hurricanes and I was a text buddy for others too.

Ya'll know what the old saying is......when you can't watch the news on TV, it's because you ARE the news on TV!

 

[dickiebird]

Bay, We did have cell service but I use mine so little I just about forgot about it.
If I were to text some one it would be the first time, and probably the last!!!
Not much on that whole cell phone thing. In fact if we go to eat with friends my first suggestion is that every one place their phone in the center of the table and whomever touches theirs first pays the entire check for the evening.
I just love it when that first ringy dingy hits one of those phones and a terrible grimace shines across the face of that phones keeper....and believe it or not, on occasion one of them will pick the thing up only to get a text that goes something like "wassupp"
Those meals are the best!!!!!
Back to the subject of road closings, I think all the interstates will be open for some travel by late tonight if they pass roadway inspections. By Monday if their structural inspections are complete they will be back to normal.
There will still be a bunch of state and county roads closed for quite awhile.

THANX RICH

 

[baymule]

I like your cell phone/restaurant idea!!

 

[digitS']

And,

wassupp?!

Steve

 

[Nyboy]

I like your cell phone/restaurant idea!!

Me to I eat out all the time and going to try this with friends.

 

[Ridgerunner]

Nyboy do you have a way to turn yours off to the point it doesn't ring or vibrate. With your impulsive nature (All those Craigslist threads) you might want to investigate this.

I've been quiet on this thread. We got several inches of rain with some flooding and a lot of washed out roads and some bridges here. This county has been declared a disaster area but we are not having near the problems others are having. My heart goes out to them.

I'm fine by the way. I'll pay for a few loads of gravel to help fix our private road but that's about it. No damage or serious washing at my place.

 

[Carol Dee]

A friends Daughter lives In Barnhardt, MO not far from where I55 has gone underwater. She works in St Louis. They live in a subdivision that sits high so they will not get flooded. Just makes it hard to get anywhere. The big rains and now the big floods have stayed south of our part of the Mississippi. (Davenport, IA) River is VERY high but not out of it's banks. The Wapsipinicon is flooding but not enough to close Highway 61 that crosses it.