There's a road in western Stanislaus County near Patterson that crosses Orestimba Creek. This road gets submerged every time they get a heavy rain, and every year you read about some idiot drowning when they try to cross it when it floods. Every year.....
One of our school bus drivers did this very thing yesterday morning. Lots of rain and our low water bridges were running high. Don't know what she was thinking, but we had to send a rescue mission out for her.
ReplyDeleteThat happens a lot in San Antonio Texas too. The terrain is a lot of small hills and slopes so rain gauges are installed in low areas so the driver can access how deep the water is. Still, people attempt to drive through, thinking they are immune, only to find that Stupidity overrules.
ReplyDeleteThe Edwards plateau is like a 40,000 square mile parking lot. San Antonio is at the SE corner. It's all limestone, so what doesn't go underground runs off. They have two huge tunnels under downtown to shunt the flood south of town to the San Antonio river.
DeleteAnon Y Mous nailed it. I have a friend whose in-laws were swept off a bridge when a wall of water hit during a storm. 4 dead. That part of Rescue 911 where the kids are in a flood happened in Comfort, just NW. It didn't even rain there that night but farther NW as I remember. That part of Texas is dangerous when it rains...
All of Gillespie County is rock. Turn around, don't drown.
DeleteAustin area here, this whole region is known as flash flood alley! Every time it rains hard there are at least 3 IDIOTS that do that, usaully 1 drowns! Turn around dont drown is a big thing here!!!! grayman
DeleteThey aren't going to get around to building a bridge anytime soon then?
ReplyDeleteNo, there are bridges everywhere. In Texas there are always three ways to get somewhere and four ways to get back. "IF" you study your maps. Kids (under 50) today do not know how to do that. They only know one way to work and one way back home. They cannot think beyond those parameters. So when it rains hard during the day and their road home has a flooded passage, most have to take it because they know no other road to use. And that is all good, as we are slowly thinning the weak minded in San Antonio. Maybe in 400 years we will have a population of medium IQ people. And a total population of under a million.
DeleteBut he's got a 2" lift and mud tires on it! Shoulda made it. Ha!
ReplyDeleteThose mud tires act as floats.
Deletemore like "hey bob, we'll catch you back at the house. try to be there by supper time, will ya?"
ReplyDeleteHey, I know that creek where I 5 crosses it! Lots of big sycamore trees along it.
ReplyDeleteSomeone could put a sign up…
ReplyDeleteHey, we have signs, flashing lights and lane gates that these dummies drive by and ignore. Only the lawyers prevent natural selection from winning.
ReplyDeleteThen the IQ of Stanislaus County goes up a little each year. quit complaining.
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