Deluge Monday

It's taken me a bit to get these shots posted. These are from September 13th, when we had that ridiculous late summer thunderstorm. I tried to get to some of the danger areas before they became danger areas, such as the P&W bridge on Southbridge (which is a notorious flooding spot). An hour after I took these, they were fishing cars out of a lake under this bridge. The rain only caused minor flooding, but the manhole covers blew and the sewer system pumped water onto the street until it was five or six feet deep.

Here's the infamous flooding spot on Southbridge, right near Southgate and the railyard. Expand the photo, and you can see the manhole cover in the middle of the road, blowing water like a geyser.




This is Southbridge at Southgate, you can see where another manhole cover had blown and was spewing rainwater.




Here's Main Street, just up from WCUW...



Here's Park Ave. at State Liquors, which is an area that I have never seen flood before. The rain was so heavy at this point that the parking lot was dumping water onto the road faster than it could go down the drains. The curb looked like the lip of a dam. It was wild.