Quote: "Damn, I'm going to New York in a week. Is Rochester anywhere near the damage?"
I think Rochester is fine, most of the flooding is along the Chenango and Susquehana rivers. But you might want to check first!
Quote: "Yeah Matt, I'm just down the road from you in Norwich, and it's pretty bad. Nice pictures."
Wow, I didn't know anyone else lived that close to me... I thought Cattlerustler was the closest. I heard that Norwich and Horseheads got it really bad, probably worse than we had it in the middle of the city because we have dams and levees and all of that stuff.
Quote: "They made it a crime to drive for the past 2 days, for non-emergency reasons."
Eh, I drove around anyway, what are they gonna do, shoot me? They have bigger things to worry about hehe. Not that I could drive very far anyway because Binghamton was cut off from every angle. But the National Guard seems to have finally gotten the water levels under a bit of control. I think the worst of it is behind us (I say that now, then another dam will give out or it'll start raining heavily again lol). Hopefully we'll be able to get out of the city soon.
Quote: "I wonder what the local Walmart looks like now. They were supposed to have their super Walmart 'grand opening' Wednesday. Oops"
As you can see from that picture of the Townsquare Mall, our Wal-mart here in Binghamton on the Vestal Parkway is underwater. That's Dick's, and Wal-Mart is downhill at least 5 feet, so I'm willing to bet Wal-Mart has at least a few hundred thousand dollars worth of damage lol. Unlucky, eh?
Quote: "Has america stolen a load of british named places? Norwich, Rochester... I'm pretty sure they existed in the UK first!"
Norwich, Rochester, Wales, London, there's lots. Not as bad as we steal names from the Romans though... Rome, Syracuse, Utica, Albany, just to name a few
Quote: "dude, omg. stfu already with that! You live nowhere near NY (the "NY" you keep implying) You live in the woods, the country, the hills! You might as well live in the midwest - thats how far off where you are is, compared to NY (nyc)"
That's funny, since at least fifteen people I know personally commute into New York City to go to work EVERY DAY. We're about an hour, maybe an hour and a half at most, from NYC. Are you high? And this is HARDLY the woods. We're technically not upstate, we're the Southern Tier. Syracuse? Watertown? Ithaca? Now THAT is the woods. Have you ever even been here CR? We're the closest metropolitan area to New York City there is in the whole state. And I'd hate to break this to you, but there's more to New York than just NYC
The I
New York thing? Guess what... THAT STARTED IN ALBANY, you know, the STATE CAPITAL? Yeesh! If I lived in, say, Lake Placid or Dunkirk or Plattsburg, then yeah, I could see where you're coming from. But a city where something like 20% of its residents commute to NYC every day? Don't be rediculous.
Quote: "Dude, it's cool to be patriotic and proud where you came from, hell I brag about my country too, but not in every post."
That's another thing... none of you apparently got the sarcastic implementation of that
Quote: "And there are porn stores in probably every large North American city, so it's not unique to where you live. My last place was just down the street from one"
I know that... that's why I was kind of weirded out to here that, as if it's some kind of mystical wonder of the world that there's a porn shop in Binghamton
Quote: "Hey Matt! There's ads for portable dams on the bottom of this thread"
LOL I noticed that too
But it looks like they took it down now. What did it say? something like "the best dam business" or something hehehehe
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