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[camper4lyfe]

My parents, Kim, and myself spent the day down in Binghamton (Johnson City to be exact) heping my aunt and uncle clean up their store.

It was pretty amazing seeing just how bad everything was.

They flooded out last year, but with about half the water. It took them 3 months to get cleaned up after that one. At this point, they're not opening this year.

The water actually got deep enough that my cousin was fishing for carp in the parking lot.

It was also pointed out that where we had parked the Tahoe, the Tahoe would have been completely under water. Amazing.

	Back of the store You can sort of see the water line across the garage door and the door next to it. Notice the brown tint to the bushes on the right
	Water line across the door
	Back room
	Farther into the back room
	In the store
	More from the store
	Storage room
	This is apparently what the entire store looked like when they first got there
	More dirt You can see the top shelf had a nice layer of silt on it, showing how high the water got
	Front door
	Water line
	Kim standing by the water line Kim is roughly 5'4" tall. I had her stand there to show just how deep the water got
	Water line again
	Garbage
	Wisemen and stuff soaing to make clean up easier
	Cousin Mike Cleaning away. I think this is the most use he's ever gotten out of a tooth brush
	$1000's in Santas
	Snowbabies
	Snowbaies that Kim cleaned
	Kim's work station
	Stripped walls
	Dad working
	Auunt Marie telling Dad what he's doing wrong
	More snowbabies
	Cute snowbabies
	More snowbabies

It was also pointd out that my aunt has 3 3' tall Hummels worth roughly $50,000 EACH in the store needing to be cleaned. HOLY SHIT BATMAN!

Comments

[nurse2k.livejournal.com]

wow how devasting to know that happened in our own state :( sometimes you take for granted being in NY and that nothing ever happens here weather wise to something like this happens just shows it can happen anywhere :(

is insurance going to cover a majority of the cleaning?

[camper4lyfe.livejournal.com]

Insurance won't cover any of it because they didn't have flood insurance.

they can write it off on their taxes (though not all at once), and FEMA is goign to be helping as well, at last monetarily, but they're still looking at 6 months to a year to clean it up and get it ready to open again.

[nurse2k.livejournal.com]

how heartbreaking :(

[camper4lyfe.livejournal.com]

It's definitely rough. My aunt's mother and father are the ones that started the store. Her father died and my aunt essentially took over the store. Her mom stopped by to take a look and all but broke down in tears. It was rough.

[dbaxdevilsfan.livejournal.com]

DAMN! I hope their insurance will reimburse them for some, if not all, of their losses. They aren't going to have to rebuild/rewire the building, are they?

[camper4lyfe.livejournal.com]

No insurance.

Their insurance company told them they didn't need flood insurance. Now that they've flooded out 2 years in a row, the chance of getting flood insurance are slim to none (or it'll cost an arm and a leg). The only thing they can do is write it off on their taxes, and take what FEMA is willing to give them.

[belleaire.livejournal.com]

OMG without Kim standing there we'd have no idea how deep it was. What a mess!

[camper4lyfe.livejournal.com]

That's why I made her walk down there.

[kimbyh2o.livejournal.com]

the 3 foot hum. were not there hun... they are somewhere else... lol that was the whole thing your mom and I were talking about. love you

[camper4lyfe.livejournal.com]

I thought that they were at the store. Well shit. That's a good thing, but the price still blows my mind.