Now that I'm caught up on the morning, here's a little update on my day:
Scariest driving experience ever. Even outdoing me driving through the big ice storm in Blacksburg two years ago only a few weeks after I had gotten my car.
I went ahead and left my house about 15 minutes early today because I knew the water was going to be bad. I pull out of my driveway and drive down the left side of the road because the complete right half of the road had turned into a mudslide from the construction up the street. I got down to the bottom of my subdivision and the real fun began. About half of the road had water pooling up on it...the storm drains were completely filled, and as I looked off to the left I could see that the entire roads and yards of people near the stream were completely covered. I turned off to go down Broad street and reach the bottom of the hill to find the cross street had completely flooded out to the point that a car that had tried to cross it had gotten stuck. At which point I turned around and called my boss to tell him I would definately be late if I made it in at all. I head back up the road, make another few turns and finally get through the water and to main street. What was normally a 3-5 minute drive had taken me almost 20 minutes. Once I crossed main street there was more flooding by the fire station that I had to drive around, but after I got on the way towards the civic center things weren't too bad. Driving down towards GE was pretty scary...that stream always floods, so water was just standing everywhere, but it wasn't as bad as I thought it might have been. Past the VA was probably the worst...by then it had really started to pour...we were going maybe 20mph at the most, and for about half a mile it was just standing water the whole way through. At that point I had serious thoughts about turning back, but realized by then it would probably be harder to get home than to get to work. I was really dreading Shenendoah since it always floods everytime we get a lot of rain, but surprisingly it wasn't really any worse than usual. I actually just barely made it to work on time...even though it took me 45 minutes to get in this morning.
So driving home should be another fun experience. I have a feeling that this morning was probably worse than I saw since it was still dark, so at least this afternoon I can see what's actually happened. I never thought I'd see my part of Salem under so much water like that...
In other news, pictures from the 51 Peg / TBM show are up on RAM. Check them out!
Scariest driving experience ever. Even outdoing me driving through the big ice storm in Blacksburg two years ago only a few weeks after I had gotten my car.
I went ahead and left my house about 15 minutes early today because I knew the water was going to be bad. I pull out of my driveway and drive down the left side of the road because the complete right half of the road had turned into a mudslide from the construction up the street. I got down to the bottom of my subdivision and the real fun began. About half of the road had water pooling up on it...the storm drains were completely filled, and as I looked off to the left I could see that the entire roads and yards of people near the stream were completely covered. I turned off to go down Broad street and reach the bottom of the hill to find the cross street had completely flooded out to the point that a car that had tried to cross it had gotten stuck. At which point I turned around and called my boss to tell him I would definately be late if I made it in at all. I head back up the road, make another few turns and finally get through the water and to main street. What was normally a 3-5 minute drive had taken me almost 20 minutes. Once I crossed main street there was more flooding by the fire station that I had to drive around, but after I got on the way towards the civic center things weren't too bad. Driving down towards GE was pretty scary...that stream always floods, so water was just standing everywhere, but it wasn't as bad as I thought it might have been. Past the VA was probably the worst...by then it had really started to pour...we were going maybe 20mph at the most, and for about half a mile it was just standing water the whole way through. At that point I had serious thoughts about turning back, but realized by then it would probably be harder to get home than to get to work. I was really dreading Shenendoah since it always floods everytime we get a lot of rain, but surprisingly it wasn't really any worse than usual. I actually just barely made it to work on time...even though it took me 45 minutes to get in this morning.
So driving home should be another fun experience. I have a feeling that this morning was probably worse than I saw since it was still dark, so at least this afternoon I can see what's actually happened. I never thought I'd see my part of Salem under so much water like that...
In other news, pictures from the 51 Peg / TBM show are up on RAM. Check them out!
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Song of the Day: Jars of Clay - "Flood" www.essentialrecords.com |
4 Comments:
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-corrie "rock fist" davidson
http://www.roanoke.com/photography/jeanne/image10.jpg
Thought I would throw that in for anyone oustide of the area to get some sort of sense as to what you are talking about...that's Victory Stadium...enjoy.
Lance
http://media.mgbg.com/wsls/images/specials/hurricane/jeanne/photogallery/victorystadiumflooded/index.htm
and there is the slide show...pretty cool pics...cut& paste in your browser....worth the time.
Lance
Yeah, I had seen those pics at work...a few of them are places I drove by or around to get to work. And of course the stadium isn't too far from the Hotel. Crazy stuff.
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