loudbmw
August 31st, 2004, 04:06 PM
This message is for all my fellow 8/21 Zuiderdam cruisers. Well you heard about how we had to dodge huricane Charley driving down to Orlando 2 weeks ago - and how we had to dodge huricane Gaston driving home Saturday.
Well - Gaston played a visit to Richmond Monday afternoon and dumped over 10" of rain downtown. Cindy left work in Richmond at 4:30 and traffic came to a halt on the expressway she was driving. After sitting still for 10 minutes and no where to go, the water started to fill up the underpass she was stopped near. Then it started to rise and rise until the water started to pour through the doors and begin to fill the inside her BMW!
She called me on her cell and I told her if she couldn't move the car in the next 2 minutes then get out (which the people in front of her were doing). Finally a guy next to her started directing people up the wrong way on a nearby entrance ramp and she was able to move. All the downtown streets were flooded by then and it took her FIVE HOURS to get home (normally 30 minutes).
So far 5 people have died from the flooding and hundreds of cars have been wrecked. I'm happy Cindy is safe and kept her cool during a very dangerous situation. We lost power for 18 hours and over 140 roads were closed this morning including 2 interstates. And another storm is on the way...enough!
A link to some pics from the Richmond Times Dispatch
http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD/HTMLPage/RTD_HTMLPage&c=HTMLPage&cid=1031777632837
Lou
Well - Gaston played a visit to Richmond Monday afternoon and dumped over 10" of rain downtown. Cindy left work in Richmond at 4:30 and traffic came to a halt on the expressway she was driving. After sitting still for 10 minutes and no where to go, the water started to fill up the underpass she was stopped near. Then it started to rise and rise until the water started to pour through the doors and begin to fill the inside her BMW!
She called me on her cell and I told her if she couldn't move the car in the next 2 minutes then get out (which the people in front of her were doing). Finally a guy next to her started directing people up the wrong way on a nearby entrance ramp and she was able to move. All the downtown streets were flooded by then and it took her FIVE HOURS to get home (normally 30 minutes).
So far 5 people have died from the flooding and hundreds of cars have been wrecked. I'm happy Cindy is safe and kept her cool during a very dangerous situation. We lost power for 18 hours and over 140 roads were closed this morning including 2 interstates. And another storm is on the way...enough!
A link to some pics from the Richmond Times Dispatch
http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD/HTMLPage/RTD_HTMLPage&c=HTMLPage&cid=1031777632837
Lou