Officers say that, on Saturday, a truck drove into a large sinkhole on Kasson Road near Tracy after the driver ignored a "road closed" sign. The driver was cited for ignoring the sign.
Believe it or not, this is the third time someone has driven into the same sinkhole.
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Kasson Road was on one of my routes home from work, a rural road that I took once or twice a week when I wasn't in the mood to deal with idiot drivers on Hwy 132.
At one time I had considered buying a house there at the San Joaquin River Club mentioned in the article. It sounds like an uppity neighborhood but in reality the houses weren't in all that great of shape, and it's located right next to the river which makes it prone to flooding every 5-6 years.
Matter of fact, when me and my ex were checking it out, she asked why all the houses had a distinct line about 3 feet off the ground. I pointed out to her those were high water marks from where it flooded the year before, then we left laughing.
If they just left the cars in there, the fourth car would have been able to drive over the top of them.
ReplyDeleteLeave the drivers, too.
ReplyDeleteI was working underground construction building a neighborhood, and we had to take an old bridge out and put a new one in. Signs went up a month early, "bridge closing Nov. 3rd..." bridge came out, swapped "road closed, bridge out" signs. Some dumb motherfucker came screaming through and... sorry, excavator operator went home for the day, you're gonna have to call a tow truck. He was still there Monday (when the ex op came back to work).
ReplyDeleteBack in the day, a couple of creeks in Atlanta were known for flooding whenever it rained. We went to an open house at a house which backed up to one of the creeks. The agent was showing maps of the flood plain and said that it didn't happen there. The back yard looked like it spent most of its life under water and, as you say, in the basement there was mud stain up to about three feet on the walls. It was more convincing that the guy's maps. I think they've fixed the creeks but I don't pay a lot of attention to Atlanta news. My home town.
ReplyDeleteThat makes me smile.
ReplyDeleteNeighborhood in Manhattan never had flooding problems. Then they built a bunch of apartment buildings about a mile upstream. That eliminated a bunch of fields that absorbed the flash flood waters before they hit the creek.
ReplyDeleteSeveral years later we had a wet summer and that old neighborhood went under water. Many of the homes had basements that were block construction. Quite a number of them collapsed.
The local ptb blamed it on global warming.
In addition to that neighborhood, a shopping center got wet. We lost five or six restaurants.
Like dumbasses are in short supply in California. Especially in the Central Valley.
ReplyDeleteI was Road Maintenance Foreman and had a severe washout. Closed the road with all the signs I could muster. Came back in the morning and there was an Isuzu Trooper down in the hole. This was a mid slope road in a steep canyon. Dumbshit went off about a 10 foot drop, slid upside down another 30 and stopped just shy of the cliff that was another 100 foot + vertical drop. Never returned to reclaim the vehicle.
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