Stay the Hell Out of Flood Zones

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If you can't go from point A to point B without running through water above your car's rocker panels, stay home.

Douglass Township drowning victims swept away in a swirling flood

Police and other emergency services personnel tried in vain to help the pregnant woman and her 9-year-old son

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[W54/XM-388]

It's a big consideration in Texas, people get killed every year.

What usually happens is it's night or low light and people don't realize there is a dip in the road ahead and once they hit the water, they think they can just push through.

 

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It's a big consideration in Texas, people get killed every year.

What usually happens is it's night or low light and people don't realize there is a dip in the road ahead and once they hit the water, they think they can just push through.

Same thing in Spain. The land can't handle heavy, sudden downpours, and low spots and gulches become death zones. On the edges of the worst of them they put up warning signs.

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[Dougie308]

That shit happens around here a dozen times every year. I mean there's three major rivers and dozens of smaller ones. And that doesn't take into account the myriad creeks and streams. Every year the news tells people not to drive through flooded roads. Hell! They usually even demonstrate what happens to a car in high water. But a couple of times a week when the water is up some dope gets rescued. Or not. Incredible.

If you can't go from point A to point B without running through water above your car's rocker panels, stay home.

Douglass Township drowning victims swept away in a swirling flood

Police and other emergency services personnel tried in vain to help the pregnant woman and her 9-year-old son

www.readingeagle.com

 

[Srgt. Hulka]

If you can't go from point A to point B without running through water above your car's rocker panels, stay home.

Douglass Township drowning victims swept away in a swirling flood

Police and other emergency services personnel tried in vain to help the pregnant woman and her 9-year-old son

www.readingeagle.com

She’s destroyed an entire family, just because she couldn’t be bothered by the high water keeping her from getting home and catching up on the latest tv show, or whatever she was late for. Whatever it was, it was more important than her life and the lives of her 8 year old son and her unborn baby. Just unfrikkinbelievable.

 

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What kills me is that the NWS bombarded all the cellular networks in SEPA with loud, obnoxious text warnings beginning at 1500. There's no way anyone with a cell phone was unaware of the danger. This happened at about 1630.

 

[W54/XM-388]

I've found that the "emergency" warnings usually either come up on your phone when you are nowhere near the X or when whatever it is has come and gone. So I turned them off.

 

[FatBoy]

What kills me is that the NWS bombarded all the cellular networks in SEPA with loud, obnoxious text warnings beginning at 1500. There's no way anyone with a cell phone was unaware of the danger. This happened at about 1630.

This can be turned off. You can shut down two of the three types of alerts in your settings (I do this, as even if we have a tornado I have no where to go so fuck it). Presidential alert is the only one you can't shut off.

Not saying this was a factor. Unless this woman was lost or in an unfamiliar area and just got caught by surprise there really is no excuse. Sad to see stuff like this but the south is FULL of stories of people dying from dumb shit daily.