When It Rains...
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annuinOne afternoon of fairly heavy rain and thunderstorms, and everything here gridlocks.
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prez called me to ask if I could pick him up, because the trains weren't going further north than White Plains. No problem. Or it wouldn't have been if I'd actually been able to get to White Plains, which turned out to be Mission Impossible.
Heavy rain means the Saw Mill River Parkway floods. I don't know what fucking morons designed that road, but they did a crappy job seeing as it always floods with rain, and we're talking a fairly major road. Apparantly this lack of foresight into coping with larger amounts of water also applies to traintracks, seeing as everything north of North White Plains got cancelled. I also remember news stories from the local Westchester news a few months back with residents complaining that their backyards or basements would flood every time it rains (our basement also floods whenever it rains, thankfully our landlord/upstairs neighbour has a water vacuum and takes care of that problem). City planners/engineers are idiots.
No access to the Saw Mill means people start looking into all the B routes, so everything else quickly clogs up too. However, I couldn't even get out of our town because they've blocked two routes out of town off completely, so that nixed the possibility of getting on the Sprain Brook Parkway, the Bronx River Pkwy or the I-287/Cross Westchester Pkwy, or even getting onto other B roads that would have taken me closer to White Plains. We're lucky enough to live in an area with easy access to lots of major highways and byways, but you get some water falling down from the sky and you still can't get anywhere.
Eventually PreZ just told me to go home, and he'd catch a bus. There are buses that go near where we live that were leaving from where he was, but who knows how long that will take, and it will also depend on whether the cops will let them use certain roads that were blocked off earlier.
Poor PreZ :(
prez called me to ask if I could pick him up, because the trains weren't going further north than White Plains. No problem. Or it wouldn't have been if I'd actually been able to get to White Plains, which turned out to be Mission Impossible.Heavy rain means the Saw Mill River Parkway floods. I don't know what fucking morons designed that road, but they did a crappy job seeing as it always floods with rain, and we're talking a fairly major road. Apparantly this lack of foresight into coping with larger amounts of water also applies to traintracks, seeing as everything north of North White Plains got cancelled. I also remember news stories from the local Westchester news a few months back with residents complaining that their backyards or basements would flood every time it rains (our basement also floods whenever it rains, thankfully our landlord/upstairs neighbour has a water vacuum and takes care of that problem). City planners/engineers are idiots.
No access to the Saw Mill means people start looking into all the B routes, so everything else quickly clogs up too. However, I couldn't even get out of our town because they've blocked two routes out of town off completely, so that nixed the possibility of getting on the Sprain Brook Parkway, the Bronx River Pkwy or the I-287/Cross Westchester Pkwy, or even getting onto other B roads that would have taken me closer to White Plains. We're lucky enough to live in an area with easy access to lots of major highways and byways, but you get some water falling down from the sky and you still can't get anywhere.
Eventually PreZ just told me to go home, and he'd catch a bus. There are buses that go near where we live that were leaving from where he was, but who knows how long that will take, and it will also depend on whether the cops will let them use certain roads that were blocked off earlier.
Poor PreZ :(
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