What a difference a deluge makes
By The Virginian-Pilot | |
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That was the note about Ghent in the
It didn't take a trained observer to see floodwater trapping cars in underpasses and on city streets, or overwhelming storm drains.
Much of South Hampton Roads saw 2 to 5 inches of rain, with up to 6 inches in spots, said
The hardest rain fell
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Pictures Flooding across
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Late Friday afternoon,
Floodwater trapped parked cars along residential streets and, in some locations, drivers drove vehicles into standing water too deep to escape. Towing companies -- where the phones rang steadily all morning -- were caught by surprise.
"We knew it was going to rain, but we didn't expect it to be this bad," said
Many were dialing from inside stranded vehicles.
"We can't get to a lot of them," Powell said. "We've got to wait for the water to go down, or our trucks could get stuck, too. We can only do so much when there's 2 feet of water. We don't have any scuba divers here."
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The problem was that heavy rain fell as the tide was rising, overwhelming storm drains and leaving no place for the water to go.
"It's just typical," said
"In a city at or below sea level, rain like this puts a lot of water on the roadway," she said.
"Water did not accumulate at all," she wrote in an email.
Midmorning, much of the setting for the
But it was great weather for ducks.
Roads around the
The torrents didn't significantly slow business, many employers said.
The port of
Some employees at
Early-morning business was down at The Coffee Shoppe in the flood-prone
"Once it let up significantly," Seymore said, "we had more customers coming in."
Employees at the
The good news is, the storm has cleared out, and skies should be at least partly sunny for the next few days. Highs both today and Sunday should be in the low to mid-70s, with rain unlikely.
"It'll be a much quieter weekend into early next week," Brown said.
Staff writers
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