“STAY AWAY OR BE SWEPT AWAY.”
I love it - in the official warning.
I recall driving on a country road in NJ that I took to work every day. Early morning, heavy rain, I got about 300 feet from the one lane bridge and started to head down. hard to see, and then I noticed ponding water on the road so I slowed down a bit. Things just seemed out of sorts and I stopped just to try to confirm that the water wasn’t all that deep ahead of me. I recall being really out of sorts - things didn’t seem quite right but I couldn’t put a handle on it.
Then I saw the speed limit sign at the bridge - the bottom of the sign was about a foot above the water line! I backed up and just stared in awe as my mind slowing took in the scene.
Then I saw the speed limit sign at the bridge - the bottom of the sign was about a foot above the water line! I backed up and just stared in awe as my mind slowing took in the scene.
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had the same thing happen to me, except it was a car aerial sticking out of the water. It waa abandoned, no one in it I found out later. Big puddle
Then I saw the speed limit sign at the bridge - the bottom of the sign was about a foot above the water line! I backed up and just stared in awe as my mind slowing took in the scene.
Wise decision. Many people underestimate the actual depth of the water or that of the power of moving food water across a roadway and are too impatient to care.
I remember here in central PA when tropical storm Lee hit the area in 2011 – record flooding on a par with Agnes. My work shut down early but what is normally a 50-minute commute home took me over 3 hours as there were so many roads shut down and blocked due to the flooding. It was a PITA with all the detours but would much rather be inconvenienced and delayed getting home than drown and not get home at all (or ruin my car). I did see a few people driving around road blocks and most, bigger pickups and SUV’s, got through OK but then I did see one car that came very close to being swept off the road and into the adjacent creek. To me, not worth the risk to me and to anyone who has to put their lives at risk to come to my rescue. I turned around.
Driver Ignores Barriers and Drives into Flooded Road—Watch What Happens