Woman rescued from her car during insane flash flood

And now, last Saturday, what the National Weather Service is calling an “off-the-charts” thousand-year rainfall event (in terms of recurrence interval) created a harrowing drama involving 120 swift-water rescues, dozens of ruined cars, demolished businesses and two fatalities.

[link to www.washingtonpost.com (secure)]

Is that a pack of cigarettes in her mouth?

Crazy footage, really...I find it odd that it didn't surface until this morning...nothing conspiratorial, just odd.

6" in TWO HOURS???

Yes...

An interesting thing I learnt some time ago. Do you know why the headrests in cars are removable?

You can use them to break windows if you need to escape the car.

[link to lifehacker.com]

I do have a safety belt cutter / window breaking hammer in my car for emergencies, but it's still good to know.

I love the videos of idiots who try and drive their cars in floods. This one was boring because it actually looked like a flash flood, so the people in the cars weren't as big of idiots.

It can get much much much worse

Hope for the best

We are at desperation time

Have to do the best we can

Desperation time

Anything Goes