My Weather Forecast

[mickey65]

Originally Posted by Moonlady

If you're new here and haven't experienced flash floods yet, please heed the warning "turn around, don't drown". RO is right - people die because they try to cross when they shouldn't.

I watched this happen to someone in Georgetown a few years back. This guy and his wife decided to chance it and cross a low bridge in Berry Creek and got stuck with the flooding water from the creek. Me and the whole neighborhood watched the rescue. It was an elderly couple. The wife was rescued and the husband got washed away and his body found the next the morning downstream. Pretty surreal, altho I wonder what they were thinking to have attempted to cross the water like that on the bridge...

[Moonlady]

I know, I am just amazed when it happens. If you've lived here any time at all, you've seen countless people die because they tried to cross a flooded road. It's enough to scare me from doing it ever.

[Trainwreck20]

It was an elderly couple. The wife was rescued and the husband got washed away and his body found the next the morning downstream. Pretty surreal, altho I wonder what they were thinking to have attempted to cross the water like that on the bridge

I think I remember this incident....there was a 'flash flood gate' that is suppose to close off the road automatically, but it was not working, so a city worker had to come out and close it. He apparently got there right after the couple passed it. I think the argument that the survivor made (or thier lawyer) was that they figured it must be safe since the gate was not down (they did not know it was out of order). Not sure I buy that, though .

[mickey65]

Originally Posted by Trainwreck20

I think I remember this incident....there was a 'flash flood gate' that is suppose to close off the road automatically, but it was not working, so a city worker had to come out and close it. He apparently got there right after the couple passed it. I think the argument that the survivor made (or thier lawyer) was that they figured it must be safe since the gate was not down (they did not know it was out of order). Not sure I buy that, though .

Yep, that's what happened - the gate wasn't working. But even still, before you make the drive across, you can OBVIOUSLY see the water rushing over the bridge! It's a sad incident and all, but common sense could have saved a life here - JMO.

And right now that bridge is being reconstructed to a high-level one. Every time I go out to visit family, I have to take this pain-in-the-butt detour to get around it to their house! It's not supposed to be completed until November.

[CarnivalGal]

I personally love it when people drive around the huge low water crossing gates or move the barriers so they can drive through. I hope the city sends a big old fat bill for the cost of rescuing those idiots.