All those record breaking Snowfalls....

[zorgon]

All those record breaking Snowfalls....

...and no one following the stories?


Another view of the hundreds of stuck vehicles in Suffolk County, Long Island, NY. This is RT 25 through the area near a walmart. Many have been stranded since yesterday evening! Some were rescued by snowmobile. Near 30 inches of snow fell with drifts 5 feet or higher!

[zorgon]

[hoss58]

I don't understand , in this day and age of mutiple sources for weather information  and  cell phones in everybody's pocket do people get caught on the highway like this?. It was no secret that this storm was coming .

[zorgon]

here in Las Vegas, before the new flood control was in place, there was an underpass on Charleston Ave.  Every time it rained it would fill up.  There was a measuring stick  BIG ONE that showed depth of water... In this one case it was at 14 FEET   

Now would you say, "Oh no sweat, I can get through that!" ?  Well this lady did.  The rescuers got her out alive, calmed her down and repeatedly asked her if she was okay... When she said she was. he yelled at her, on news camera, "Lady, WTF were you thinking? That had to be the stupidest thing I have seen"

LOL I will see if I can find that video

And it wasn't an only case LOL. The underpass goes under a railroad so its 14 feet deep to allow trucks to pass



This was the one...

Las Vegas city employee Mark Cannata on Sunday afternoon looks in on Wilma Barclay's partially submerged Cadillac beneath the Charleston underpass just east of Interstate 15.

"Stupid is as Stupid does" - Forest Gump


Tony Glenn from Quality Towing comes up for air after attaching a towing cable to a car that was caught in floodwaters at the Charleston underpass on October 27, 2000. While Las Vegas doesn't get much rain, when the skies open up flash floods are always a possibility. CREDIT: Sam Morris / Sun Archives

I mean seriously... do people REALLY need a cop car blocking the road to know not to take their car for a swim?

[Amaterasu]

I remember the Charleston underpass.  Seems like every time it rained, the news was filled with stories of idiots...