Suspension Bridge at Dusk

[Ron Scubadiver]

Suspension Bridge at Dusk by Ron Scubadiver, on Flickr

July, 2017, Lisbon Portugal

My neighborhood looks like a dump with piles of debris everywhere.  The house is almost empty.  It smells bad.  My body aches because I am not up to doing so much physical work.  I am the only one who has a car because mine was in the shop and it did not flood.  We rented a storage unit to keep what is left of our stuff, mostly kitchen items and some clothing on high hangers.  Our apartment will not be ready until October 3rd which leaves us in limbo until then.  Shortages of petrol have eased, but traffic is still awful due to road closures.  There are shortages of prescription drugs because pharmacies are behind on deliveries.  While all this mayhem is going on in Houston, Florida, especially the Miami area is waiting for Irma, a true killer storm.  My 200-500 zoom is full of water.  A local repairman said to throw it out.

[Fons Baerken]

How awful, what a nightmare, Ron, better move out.

[Olivier]

Ron, just exchange "dusk" with "sunrise" in your picture's title and let a new beginning come.
Keep safe and look ahead!
Olivier

[Ron Scubadiver]

How awful, what a nightmare, Ron, better move out.

We will not be returning to the house. 

[Ron Scubadiver]

Ron, just exchange "dusk" with "sunrise" in your picture's title and let a new beginning come.
Keep safe and look ahead!
Olivier

I really appreciate your upbeat comment.  Things should improve a lot once we get to our apartment.

[Akira]

Beautiful and serene image, Ron!  Hope your mind will be as peaceful as this image in a shortest possible time.

I think you should find the new place not only on the second or third floor, but the building located on a higher altitude where there is no concern of the flood.

[Ann]

Ron:

Your Lisbon Bridge photograph is beautiful

But you poor people: what a dreadful and heart-breaking home-coming. 
Hopefully you can get some help with the hard physical work of trying to clean-up and rescue what can be rescued.

[pluton]

Beautiful shot, Ron.  If only every day had those colors!
Please check the elevation v. local hydrology of your future residences if you are staying in the Houston area.  There is a possibility that what happened will occur again.

[David H. Hartman]

Thank you for posting the beautiful photograph of the bridge.

I'm so sorry about your house and it contents. I hope things get better soon.

Best,

Dave Hartman

[Erik Lund]

Good to here your safe! All the best and hope things clears up!

[Ron Scubadiver]

Ann, nice to see you again.

The apartment is up two levels from the ground, about 6 meters.  We don't intend to stay there much longer than a year but right now there is no long term plan.  We are going to visit our daughter and her family in Austin, TX tomorrow.

[Anthony]

Lovely photo, but very sad to hear about the destruction of your home.

I hope you can get back to normality before too long.

[Hugh_3170]

Ron,  so sorry to hear that flooding has hit you so hard so soon after the last big one a year or two back.  At least it sounds as if you and your family are OK.

Let your beautiful image of the Lisbon bridge be a reminder of better things ahead. 

I have travelled over this bridge.  It is very long and is a fine piece of engineering.

[armando_m]

Hello Ron

you picked a very nice image to share your current status

Hope things get easier and better soon

I'm afraid to ask, but were your image archives dry ?

Hope you have a good time while in Austin

Armando

[Ron Scubadiver]

All of my digital archives are dry.  Everything was on external hard drives which were above the water line.  I had done very little photography for decades before buying a DSLR, so I am not going to weep about a couple of old boxes of color transparencies which I haven't looked at in over 20 years.  My wife and I are OK, but under the new definition of what passes for OK.  We are dealing with this blow and finding solutions to our problems.  We did have flood insurance which will reduce the financial impact markedly.  Today two policemen stopped to chat with us today.  They were so nice.  The whole thing is kind of surreal.  The big ranch house is history.  We are downsizing and I am looking forward to it.  I appreciate all the comments.