Tattling on Idiots posted 1/26/2008 10:32:55 PM | 1 kudo what's this?     report abuse

530Meliss

Last night was an interesting one in our little burg. It's been raining all week. Because we're just about flatlanders, when it rains all week, there's no place for the rain to go but to spread out. Not a problem for people who've lived here for 20 - 30 a hundred years but for people who aren't familiar with the roads, it presents an intellectual challenge.

Since Monday about noon, it’s rained over 5.5” inches. I’m not sure how much more because the rain gauge was overflowing when I got home last night… and I wasn’t going out back to empty it.

We have an Indian casino about seven miles up the road. Last night they were featuring a 70’s band so the roads were packed with bay area drivers, out in the country for an outing. Unfortunately the main road in was closed about 7:00 last night so our adventuresome drivers from the bay area, looked for alternate routes. Soon the monitor alerting our local VOLUNTEER fire department began paging everyone for public assistance to pull cars and people out of ditches and fields they’d floated off into.

The most interesting was a Mercedes SUV that was on a road so far out in the boonies (trying to get around all the flooded road closed signs it turns out) that they’d floated off into a local creek. Because they had Onstar and cell phones they were able to contact help, even though they were under water (that’s a tight car!). I was just glad non of my sons are currently fire department volunteers.

Their consequences… their vehicles were left and the passengers were shuttled to the casino so the casino could deal with their wet dripping personages… but I wonder. Does insurance cover stupidity?

This mornings news showed so many cars that had floated off into the ditches that the sheriff’s impound yard should be full up tonight.

Do you have a story when non locals put themselves in danger because they didn’t have enough common sense to turn around and go home?

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