Nearly a month's worth of rain in 1 hour triggers travel nightmare in DC area
Source: accuweather.com
July 08, 2019
Commuters in the D.C., and Baltimore area faced an extremely difficult and dangerous drive back to work on Monday morning following the long holiday weekend as heavy downpours flooded local roadways.
Videos have surfaced on social media in which the raging floodwaters turned roads into rivers. One social media user captured a video while driving through high floodwaters in the Virginia Avenue Tunnel on Monday morning and said, "Youre going to need a boat to pass underneath the Virginia Ave. underpass on I-66 in NW D.C."
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Pete Piringer, a spokesman for the Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service, told local news station WTOP that all our folks are deployed right now at about 8:30 a.m. He said the storm drains are overwhelmed............................
The heavy rain also flooded the runway at Frederick Municipal Airport, covering the wheels of some aircraft. At the White House, the rain started to flood the basement. Meanwhile, the second flood entrance of the Pentagon "leaks" on Monday morning, CNN Pentagon Correspondent Barbara Starr reports. The flooding captured in Starr's photo is from rain coming in from the fifth floor ceiling and is also bubbling up from the Potomac River below................................
Read more: https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/nearly-a-months-worth-of-rain-in-1-hour-triggers-travel-nightmare-in-dc-area/70008762
Heavy rainfall flooded the intersection of 15th Street and Constitution Ave., NW stalling cars in the street, Monday, July 8, 2019, in Washington near the Washington Monument.
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Flaleftist
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Miigwech
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Bayard
(21,802 posts)Couldn't this have happened Thur. night?
DeminPennswoods
(15,246 posts)creates traffic problems in DC area.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)I'm getting really sick of having 200-year weather events every 2 or 3 months.
area51
(11,868 posts)riversedge
(69,716 posts)honest.abe
(8,556 posts)One of the hardest sustained rains I have ever seen.
IronLionZion
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(23,283 posts)C'mon, this is the important stuff, right?