OT: Floods on campus
Don't know how bad the rain was in other parts of Ann Arbor, but I was stuck by the IM building for a couple of hours and had the pleasure of watching some fine young students cartube up the wrong way on a one-way street. Link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWyuCbq5ofE
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When I see vids like this, my belief that Darwin had it right is confirmed.
When I see videos like this, I think, "man I miss college..."
I know they say the water backs up if you jerk off in the dorm showers, but I thought they were bluffing. My sincerest apologies.
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I lived on Packard for a while and parked on White. It flooded like once a week. You'd think with all the money they collect from parking tickets the arseclowns could stay on top of that.
There was no water standing on this street (Mary) within 2 hours of me taking this video. Not sure if that is indicative of good or bad drainage, but just throwing that out there...
My normal 15-min (one-way) bus commute stood at 50 min this evening. And I am sure more people had it worse.
In my two years of living on Mary we had some flooding, not this bad though. Can only imagine the Cross Street river flow that is going on right now
sp check..
This is what happens on that one 70 degree day in February every year... -_-
AnnArbor.com has amazing videos of the flash flood. We got a deluge of rain. 2 inches in less than an hour. The storm sewers were overwhelmed, by the time I left work, it all had been mostly reabsorbed. Flooding in Lorch Hall (Economics), West Hall (Anthropology) and Angell Hall. Fun Times. http://www.annarbor.com/news/ann-arbors-flood-causing-storms-summarized-in-10-short-videos/
On stadium near woodbury! Came so close to stalling out... had to shift into first to save it. The way the rain was coming down, if I had to bail out there someone would have hit it for sure. 0 visibility.
It was brutal in Chicago on Wednesday from rain, with massive closures from flooding all over the place. My commute took 2 hours, double my normal time. In the suburb of Palatine, there is a rec area called Twin Lakes that has two small lakes separated by a strip of land. Now it can be renamed Single Lake as the water level there rose over 15 feet due to the surrounding runoff pouring in to it and completely buried the strip of land separating the two lakes.
up north. my crops are not liking that too much.
how they're just going the wrong way on a one way street