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Johnw1104 on 12 September 2017
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Alby_da_Wolf said:
Johnw1104 said:

Still can't get back to my apartment, it looks like the St. John's river swallowed it for a while there and it will take days for the water to drain. Here's footage of my street... it would seem leaving was wise heh

Good news is the buildings and windows look intact, so odds are that most of the stuff I stored waaay up off the ground will be ok. There will certainly be significant water damage, though.

*Edit* I suppose in retrospect moving to a street named "River Road" was a poor idea; it really earned the name :p

Yep, living too low near the sea or rivers is always risky. Although when bad luck is strong you aren't safe even up the hills, last year in my region a cold air downburst caused a perfect storm making more damages than tornadoes (that here are rarely strong, and never as strong as on wide plains), the cold air was poured like from a giant bucket over the sea and the air wave when it reached the coast bounced and climbed the hills taking roofs off, felling trees and doing other damages even quite up and far away from the sea on a large area.

This has been a rather recent issue in this part of Jacksonville, though. The San Marco community is ancient and hadn't suffered flooding like this in over a century, but now it has flooded two years in a row. I think I'll be moving inland; thankfully I was only renting, so I'm not stuck like a lot of other unfortunate people.