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fedspaz	Rain, Rain, Go AWAY!		Lead	[-]
Posts: 668 06/17/08 2:34 PM	Tags : None I know this pales in comparison to the problems here in Iowa, but I haven't had a chance to clean up any of my motorcycles yet. They still have the winter's mess on them. The only nice days this week, I'm in New Jersey for business.... when I get back, 7 days of chances of T-storms. Maybe this should be under the whine section? Anybody have any cheese for me? As a side note, I do take a lot of grief from folks, cuz they are usually dirty... how wants to spend all that time cleaning when you can/should be riding?? Keep your knees in the breeze! -Kirk
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kcroadrocket		#1	[url]	[-]
Posts: 1157 06/17/08 3:26 PM	i had made reservations in cedar rapids the 27th for J&P's open house, but from the looks of things, think i'll cancel this year. may go south for the weekend and ride a little in arkansas, but that's "iffy" too since we're having so much rain all over the midwest. bud
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Fredrider		#2	[url]	[-]
Posts: 6307 06/17/08 4:02 PM	Kirk & Bud, How selfish you guys are hogging all that rain. Send some my way, we need it badly. Fred
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fedspaz		#3	[url]	[-]
Posts: 668 06/17/08 4:11 PM	I heard there's a levee just south of Anamosa that's on the verge of breaking. At least it's south of town... hate to see J&P and the Motorcycle museum there get flooded. Keep your knees in the breeze! -Kirk
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alan		#4	[url]	[-]
HSATF Tail Gunner Posts: 199 06/18/08 1:45 AM	RAIN?!?!?!! RAIN?!?!?!!! You want rain??!! Come to British Columbia. This is where the clouds come to recharge. It's been raining since October 2007. Yep! 2007! The year we didn't have a proper spring or summer. Have I mentioned we didn't have a spring this year either? But you wanna know what we do got? RAIN!! COLD RAIN!! How am I coping? Look in craigslist.org in Nanaimo BC Canada and you'll see my T....... cause I'm throwing in the wet towel. If I hadn't spent the winter in Arizona I'd be a raving lunatic by now...... Hey, wait, I AM a raving rainatic.......... Bwahahaha....... Bwhahaha......
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Fredrider		#5	[url]	[-]
Posts: 6307 06/18/08 5:09 AM	fedspaz wrote: I heard there's a levee just south of Anamosa that's on the verge of breaking. At least it's south of town... hate to see J&P and the Motorcycle museum there get flooded. Kirk, A friend sent me this picture of Hwy 1 between Mt. Vernon and Solon, ~15 miles south of Anamosa. This was her son's normal route to work. Fred
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HSATF 1st Officer Posts: 815 06/18/08 9:53 AM	I daily wish the best for the people affected by the floods. Alan, I couldn't stand the lack of clear skies either, so I left Washington and have been travelling in sunshine for four months. It has done wonders for my mental stability. Scott "Silence is golden, duct tape is silver"
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alepel		#7	[url]	[-]
Posts: 8239 06/18/08 10:52 AM	gr8scott51 wrote: I daily wish the best for the people affected by the floods. Alan, I couldn't stand the lack of clear skies either, so I left Washington and have been travelling in sunshine for four months. It has done wonders for my mental stability. I'm feeling that way about five months of snow! alepel "Ride with the Spirit always, and in all ways"....hombldr
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alan		#8	[url]	[-]
HSATF Tail Gunner Posts: 199 06/18/08 12:59 PM	At least we haven't had floods..........yet. There is still lots of snow on the mountains, I can see from my decks, and all it takes is a few warm days. Sun? Fat chance. I'm going riding today...... I'll get wet....... showers showers.
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Fredrider		#9	[url]	[-]
Posts: 6307 06/25/08 8:25 PM	Some more aftermath. This is a friend's son's truck where he spun out into the Cedar River on the way home from work Fri. eve. This is on Old Cedar River Road which is the shortcut just re-opened after being underwater for a week or so. You can see from the photo how close the road is to the river. Both his mother and his father had advised him against taking this route but he said he had taken it on Fri. morning with no difficulty. However during the day Friday it sprinkled a little rain -- enough to make the layer of muck covering the road slightly "greasy" and when he came around the corner, the truck began fishtailing and he went into the river. Fortunately he wasn't going very fast. He said it was amazing how fast the water came into the cab. He got out of the truck OK through the passenger window. Got out with his cell phone. Called his father to come as he wanted to go back in after his laptop and "wanted to have someone there while he went in." His mother and father got there before the tow truck or the law enforcement people. Father & son retrieved the laptop out with just a corner wet -- everything was recoverable. He didn't get a ticket. The truck was "totaled" by the insurance company --lots of damage to the electrical system and other innards of the truck. My friend's son was lucky. Shows how bad things can still happen after the main event is over. Fred
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kcroadrocket		#10	[url]	[-]
Posts: 1157 06/25/08 8:58 PM	looks like he was pretty lucky fred. i can't imagine what some of the people along the mississippi are going through. with all the rain we've had here, i had just a bit of water in my basement/garage, but it was no big deal since it's unfinished. those people have whole homes submurged in the "muddy mississippi". i had a call from the motel i had a reservation for this weekend for J@P's open house in iowa. they wanted to confirm my reservation as they had the motel filled with people who's homes were flooded. she said my reservation would be honored, but they could sure use the room for the victims of the flood. i told her to go ahead and cancel me and let them have it. i had about decided not to go anyway as i've been down in the back pretty bad. glad your friend came out o.k. bud
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