We're finally getting live TV coverage showing numerous flash-flooded, stalled out cars on highways, feeder/service roads, some even having driven past the barricades cops had already set up when the flooded! Every stream, brook, tributary, creek, pond, lake & river in D/FW area seems to be over its banks and flowing onto roads, stopping traffic. Many of the cars are flooded over their hoods, many in low spots in highways under overpasses and tow trucks can't get to them due to snarled, wrecked traffic & high water they can't avoid. Lots of cars lined up for miles due to high water no one will drive through. The water is some areas is thigh-high and swift, taking some off their feet.
This one young woman who flooded out in her car said her shoes at one time were floating in her car and she's lost a windshield wiper somehow. Just as she was being interviewed, a Triple A tow truck arrived to help her. She's soaked to the skin and shoeless now!
I hope all businesses/schools that can will stay closed due to a Rain Day or at least open after noon to give first responders time to get this early mess partly cleaned up before more stall out. Thing is rescuers just can't get to those who need them and the back-up keeps growing, causing wrecks. Dallas has gotten almost 5 inches of rain from tonight, that on top of the soaked ground and over-filled waterways. We've 2 more days of this to come weathermen are saying.
D/FW Metroplexers, stay home and stay safe if you can today. It looks frightful out there.
__________________  Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis |