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catbyte

(34,341 posts) Thu Sep 2, 2021, 08:19 AM Sep 2021

Stunning videos of flooding in New York, New Jersey & Pennsylvania from Ida

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Stunning videos of flooding in New York, New Jersey & Pennsylvania from Ida (Original Post) catbyte Sep 2021 OP

Cut your power!!! Johnny2X2X Sep 2021 #1

I'm from Yonkers Casady1 Sep 2021 #2

This is horrible XanaDUer2 Sep 2021 #3

Johnny2X2X

(18,973 posts)

1. Cut your power!!!

Reply to catbyte (Original post)

Thu Sep 2, 2021, 08:28 AM

Sep 2021

Do some of these people realize that when your home/basement is flooding like that, the first thing you should do is kill the power to the house? I see a guy in waist deep water with the lights on and that's dangerous, both as a shock hazard and a fire hazard.