Wow, sorry to hear about that. I think these days past assumptions about safety from weather-related disasters aren't holding up as well as we'd hope. In my area, we're not at much risk for floods but "the big one" is probably going to force a reset on my own belongings at some point. In CA the fires will threaten anything that earthquakes don't. I guess the best we can do is enjoy things while we can.Hello - a year on. Well it's interesting what we find on the forum - I came across this today. Last year when this was posted - I was rather diverted as you'll realise below.
This was my kit - and it was not at the dump at the stage of the photo - it was on my front lawn in fact. Just for reference, here's a photo taken a few days earlier, of flood water flowing through my shed (as seen in the rear of the original photo in this discussion). Maybe around 2.5m - 4m deep and roaring past.
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As you can see this was not an average flood. It rose about 2m to get to our house, then another to 2.7m in our house in about 3 hours. It has been assessed as a one in 500 year event -
NIWA data shows significance of Cyclone Gabrielle flooding
Scientific analysis of Cyclone Gabrielle’s flooding has underlined the extraordinary magnitude of the event.www.hbrc.govt.nz
Flood protections designed for 100 year events were unable to cope. 8 people lost their lives. All single story dwellings in our neighborhood were destroyed and everyone has left - some pending rebuild, some not.
We were lucky having a two story house with precast concrete construction. Except for the concrete, the bottom floor and all services were destroyed. We have rebuilt now, but we are still repairing surrounding damage (about 1m of silt, all farm fences destroyed) over a year later, The district will take some years to recover.
Regarding the gear - these speakers were part of a set of equipment I'd gathered as I could afford them, and as opportunities arose over many years. Yes they were insured, for what I paid for them - they can't be found to be replaced for this price of course. The photo was taken some days after the flood - the house was still being cleared out. We had no power, cell phone communication or internet. There was no time to get into details with any of the equipment. A friend did wash down and dry my ss gear. I finally got to look at repairing it about 9 months later. I spent considerable time trying to resurrect it - with some success, most commonly followed by failure a short time later, repaired again followed by failure a little later again. I gave up. My advice to anyone flooded - forget about trying to fix flooded electronics.
The TAD speakers went to an interested party who did manage to retrieve a few parts. After a week in the water and sludge the cases were completely shot.
Sorry, no 6 car garage, no porsches here. Our much more mundane cars floated away to be caught around the area in trees and buildings. The cables were not expensive.
I'm not looking for any sympathy. It is what it is, but I Just thought the original post and some assumptions, deserved a bit of context, particularly since I'm a member here.
Glad to hear you and yours were OK, but it's a shame about the speakers. Still, I think if you can walk away from something that severe with only some wrecked stuff, well it could be worse.
