A good morning at the falls
Posted at 10:44 AM on August 17, 2011
by Eric Ringham
(3 Comments)
Filed under: Weather
After a big rain, there's nothing like a visit to Minnehaha Falls to start the day.
It was a relief when the car started this morning. Last evening I was out until around 9, and then tried to drive through the storm to my house in south Minneapolis. I had no idea what I was getting into.
Those well-meaning media types make it sound easy when they say we shouldn't drive into standing water. That advice doesn't help much when the entire street is water. A smarter person would have just pulled over, but that smarter person was not driving my car, and I plowed on, thinking higher ground was just across the next intersection.
Across the next intersection was just more water.
By the time I neared my house, the bow wave in front of my bumper was coming over the hood. A half-foot of water was geysering up from the manhole covers. The alley was flooded as well, but I made it to my driveway, where the water was only an inch deep.
The current bent my license plate. Jiminy.
Comments (3)
Sweet picture, Bob.
Yeah, if I had the day off, I'd have gone to the falls with my camera in hand...
Err, sorry about that Eric. Forgot that Bob was off on vacation.
Sweet picture any which way :)
JUMPIN' Jiminy!
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