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Here are some photos of the flooding here in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania. I got to experience both the floods in Houston last weekend as well as this flood. I think the Houston flood did a better job of general destruction and mayhem, but I give the PA flood points for effort.

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LOBBY 8 PM: Guests watch as a futile attempt to hold back the rising water takes place in the lobby entrance. Moses was unavailable for comment.

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Sandbags and cinder blocks were used to hold off rising water. I told them this wouldn't work but it was fun watching them try to prove me wrong.

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A nice Koi pond used to exist where those shrubberies are in the distance. A shrubbery? Yes, a shrubbery.

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The basement filling up was very dramatic after the lobby began ''equalizing'' last night. Here it is in the morning. Housekeeping used to be down there. I don't think anyone is going to fix my bed for me today.

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LOBBY 9 AM: Aftermath! I wanted to take a picture when the lobby was filled with 3 feet of water, but getting electrocuted didn't interest me. No, wait, I'm sorry -- this is a picture of the lobby after the Lakers-Sixers game ended. Sorry, my bad.

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An illustration of how high the water got during the night. Before the wall collapsed you could see rising water on the other side of the lobby window like a fish tank. Scary.

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The guilty culprit. A door existed here at one point and sheetrock was used to hold conceal it. God can see through sheetrock, apparently.

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One view of the once pristine blue swimming pool. It's more... natural now.

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The standard brochures box was completely covered with flood water. Guess I won't be going to any monuments today.

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The front desk is overturned. I have fond recollections of arguing about my phone bill at this countertop. Sigh. Oh, the memories.

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Since the computer was lost in the lobby, management had to walk from room to room to find vacancies for arriving guests too stupid to turn around or find some other ''not underwater'' hotel.

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I moved the rental truck early on in the evening to avoid having to have it replaced and lose valuable time in my life dealing with insurance and paperwork. Some people apparently like to do that stuff, so more power to them.

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Another view of the pool from my hotel room. Looks like chocolate milk.

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A short MPG movie of what happens when a car goes completely underwater and then emerges the next morning. It's pissed.

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Another MPG movie of what happens when an elevator goes into a flooded basement and then comes back up to the 4th floor for air. Not happy.

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LOBBY 3 PM:All that annoying furniture and debris has been removed, as have the walls. Maybe I should park over there.



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