It took two hours to get home

posted by Jeff | Friday, June 23, 2006, 11:25 AM | comments: 2

Last night it took me more than two hours to get home. As the storms rolled through, they did their worst here in the southeast part of Cuyahoga County, namely Solon, Ohio. Where I work.

The problem was that I couldn't get out of town. All of the roads going out were flooded. Cars were floating around, rivers crossed roads, and I've generally never seen so much water rushing around anywhere that wasn't already a rushing river. And what made this even more weird is that, generally speaking, this is a town with lots of hills and high ground. So much rain was coming down that even on hills there were several inches of running water.

I finally went east then south from town until I was able to get to the turnpike to get home, but what a pain in the ass. I've never seen anything like it before.


Comments

CPLady

June 23, 2006, 4:17 PM #

Norwalk made the national news with over 6 ft of water in some places. They said they got 5 inches of rain in a 24 hour period. That's a LOT of rain!

Tobe

June 24, 2006, 12:37 AM #

It was still pretty nasty this morning around Independence. Had some drop offs for work out there, 480 was a mess!


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