Posted on 03/10/2023 9:07:32 PM PST by thecodont
OAKLAND, Calif. - The rains that pounded the Bay Area caused so much flooding that Interstate Highway 580 by Oakland's Fruitvale and Laurel districts shut the road early Friday morning for about six hours.
The water was so high that the rains even brought the ducks out to swim.
Though the rains began pouring down late Thursday night, the California Highway Patrol shut down westbound 580 at MacArthur Boulevard/High Street about 3 a.m. Friday.
And the freeway stayed that way, wet and free of cars, for most of the morning commute.
Finally, the freeway reopened before noon.
(Excerpt) Read more at ktvu.com ...
And are better at navigating their passage than California drivers.
Does this mean that these ducks are witches?
The water is a lot smoother than any pavement in all of CA. Hundreds of billions spent on homeless and illegals; not a penny for repaving our third-world roads.
Good point. As the report pointed out, backhandedly, the rain didn’t cause this per se.
About 25 years ago I would be sympathetic to the situation. Flash forward to now, I could give a crap less. I wouldn’t care if CA slid off into the ocean, along with Oregon and Washington state. I feel nothing but contempt for them.
And DEI. And reparations, right around the corner.
Some streets have potholes so bad, the cars have to do this weird swerve around them back and forth like there's a set of invisible traffic cones. Rain and more traffic just make them worse.
“…the cars have to do this weird swerve around them back and forth like there’s a set of invisible traffic cones.”
So you’ve been following me?
I worked in 15 poor countries in the 70s and don’t recall roads as bad as Californias. Victor Davis Hanson said a couple days ago that road surveys put CA dead last in the country. Highest taxes, the most poor, the most homeless, the most illegals, the worst infrastructure, the highest rate of people fleeing. What a mess.
On a related note, if all of the EV's on the west coast caught fire when the great slide happened, would the steam cause the area to look like London, England?
-——At least leave behind the counties that would like to annex to a different state.——
That is what is on my mind this morning. There is a feeling of great change in the air. And yet, conservatives eschew change.
Oregon has made a very major and significant effort to become part of Idaho. The same might be true of Washington. I am not sure.
I can’t grasp what state would those of you in red California counties gravitate?
Or multiple states. North Buffer, South Buffer, Central Buffer, etc.
Well that’s just ducky!
Re: Ducks swim on Freeway
During the first series of 2023 California storms about a month ago, I read a historical paper on the Great Flood of 1862 in San Francisco.
No photos available, but some great magazine illustrations.
It literally rained for the entire month of January 1862.
San Francisco got 40 inches of rain! Residents were paddling around the streets in boats for weeks after it stopped.
Not only that, the rain melted all of the low elevation snow surrounding SF. Every river and creek that flowed into the Bay Area was flooded for weeks.
Amazingly, at the same moment in time, 3,000 miles east of SF, Americans were killing each other in the Civil War.
Must be from the drought.
Oh, no. What if these are an "endangered species"? Shouldn't they be protected?
Gov Newscum should protect them at all cost. Keep the noisy poluting, fossil fuel burning, cars and trucks away from them.
If he can only save the life of one of these....
It would be worth it.
1861 - 1862 0.00July 0.00A 0.02S 0.00O 4.10N 9.54D 24.36Jan 7.53F 2.20M 0.73A 0.74M 0.05June Total 49.27
https://www.ggweather.com/sf/monthly.html
Pretty amazing history. Had to look it up because I like learning a little history about weather. Like Lake Tahoe has received 49+ ft of snow this season.
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