Posted on 10/02/2021 3:17:46 AM PDT by nuconvert
It was a deceptively beautiful September day in the nation's capital. No severe weather was expected, but by that afternoon several inches of rain had fallen in parts of the district. No one was more caught off-guard than Virginia Waller-Torres of Hagerstown, Maryland.
She was coming down an exit ramp when she ran headlong into a flash flood. The water hit her car with such force that it tore off her license plate. Her car wouldn't budge in the deep water. "It was scary," she said. "I thought I could die."
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“In other words, it should be the motto of all Americans — to leave no man behind, not in war, not in a flood, not anywhere, in any way. “
Unlike Biden
FATHER GOD,
Thank You for our American soldiers, heroes who put country and fellow man before their own wellbeing. Bless them and put Your angels of protection around them at all times.
In JESUS Name we pray. AMEN.
Amen
But, Climate Change is real and an existential threat.
Living out in the West, where flash floods (and they mean it!) are common, the vast majority of the time people who are waylaid by the flood underestimated then challenged it, and lost.
After years of fishing out daredevils, many places in the West are now sending *bills* to such people. Helicopters, fire response, police, etc. are “hella” expensive. Trying to drive across “just a few inches” of water might run you $30,000.
That woman was extremely lucky that the Marines were around. And unless they were “purposeful” for that task, and had the proper training and equipment, their Gunny should give them some constructive criticism. No sarcasm, I mean that literally.
In dress blues none the less.
Read the story.
I hope she offered to pay for the damages to their dress blues from the water they waded thru.
I’m glad she accepted their help, unlike the guy on the roof.
THIS time, God sent the marines!
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