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Posted: August 10 2005 05:18 PM
 
Steve Weinberg (aka maniac) [ View ] [ Email ] [ Car Ads ] [ Blogs ]
Bethel, Connecticutt
 
This is what it looked like in 1992, anybody remember this?

That was Troy Trepaniers Buick

I think it was 9 inches of rain in 1 hour.

 
 
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Posted by Rods & Customs by Leon  -  08/09/2005 10:28 PM
It was truley a site, It was even dumping BIGTIME water out the overflow roof drains inside the building, Luckly we where high and dry.
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Posted by mcduff  -  08/10/2005 12:09 PM
Man I couldn't believe these pictures. I can only feel for the guys that had cars there. I would have been sick to come out and see my car sitting in that much water. Wow what a mess! I never saw these pics before. What a way to ruin a summer.
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Posted by 100646  -  08/10/2005 04:31 PM

Somewhere I have pictures of cars with water up over the belt line, one car in particular had water up over the belt line with a mullins trailer behind that was floating, pretty bazarr.
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Posted by rc57  -  08/09/2005 06:45 PM

we were there.....and words can't explain how bad that was. i posted a pic or two last year
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Posted by glrchotrods  -  08/10/2005 04:57 PM
That year at the Boyd Booth the water came so fast that they used brand new Boyd Wheels and stacked them up and then lifted the Alumi-Coupe on top of them to keep it out of the water. It was quite a sight.
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Posted by maniac  -  08/10/2005 05:14 PM
I remember them stacking the Boyd wheels up and lifting the car.

The reason there aren't a lot of pictures of this is the NSRA made the magazines play it down, I only saw a few pictures in the mags and none like the ones I took.

Story was the coolers and chairs started floating and blocked all the drains

My car was high up enough but the water was getting closer and closer, then it stopped raining.

There is a building on the site of the flood now, so I guess there is no more "low" spot

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Posted by BigAlBre  -  08/08/2005 11:07 PM
Yes I remember it well.... fortunately I didn't drive that year... many nice cars had water in the cylinders and interior.... everyone was looking for haulers to get their cars home...
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Posted by gman0046  -  08/10/2005 05:18 PM
The 92 flood was because the drains got clogged up. The 05 storm was scarier because of the lightning and high winds.There probably was more total damage in 92, but 05 caused a large amount of sheet metal damage. It was pretty scary to see 55 gallon drums of water being slung around and tents flying through the air.
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Posted by bigdude  -  08/08/2005 12:49 PM

Oh yeah! My boys were there with us pushing those hi dollar(20,000-30,000) cars out from the power parking spots.Mine stayed above water of course.
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