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Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 2:22 am
by Kat
10 truckfulls to empty debris from 2 houses!
[EDIT HERE: I just checked- and that whole street was 10 truckloads, not just those 2 houses.]
Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 2:24 am
by Kat
Two and a halh hours, one corner cleaned up!
Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 2:07 pm
by Kat
The whole street is clear- so the 10 truckloads are from all the houses on that street. I missed the beginning where they bull-dozed all the stuff up the street into one big pile
Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 9:16 pm
by Susan
Wow, what a mess, it must be so nice to see it all cleaned up now! Thanks for the pics. My twin is currently painting a house for a couple from Florida, they had just moved out here when Charley hit, they didn't know whether their house and things were okay or not, they are. What a small world.
Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 2:36 am
by Kat
It was cool to see a woman climb down out of one of those trucks because the neighbors I was standing with had a 2 and a half year old daughter who LOVES TRUCKS.
Then the lady turned out to be smoking a cigarette and ruined the role model! (For a 2 and a half year old- personally I don't really care).
I heard on the news tonight that in Orange County they had so far removed 250,000 cubic yards of debris and expected it to total 800,000 cubic yards.
I didn't know how much that was but it sounds awful close to a million!
They put it in perspective by saying that amount would fill a football field and be stacked 1/4 mile high.
Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 3:03 am
by Susan
Yikes, thats alot of debris!!!
What will they do with all of it? Landfill? Made into mulch? Hopefully they can do something useful with all that stuff. Thats so cool, I love that that the little girl is into trucks. I used to play Tonka trucks with my brothers when I was a girl, I thought they were pretty neat myself. But, I don't think I'd want to really drive one of those things.
New Threat?
Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 11:59 pm
by Kat
I just heard on the news tonight that 2 million cubic yards of debris will finally be collected in Orange County.
Anyway, We are gun-shy here now and have been told of another storm brewing with the characterists of Hurricane Andrew. By Sunday night we may have a better idea of it's path- Frances. It depends on The Burmuda High, to steer it away.
People are buying more batteries again, even before this new *threat*.
Every year I spend about $200 on supplies, to be prepared! Yikes!