Todays thought...Stupid people.

Ok...so last night a massive amout of rain dumped on our area. It caused flash flooding in many areas. I'd gone over to Floors houseand Pooh and I had decided to go on ahead and hang out over there until the worst was over.

Around 1:30 in the morning we decide to head home. Both of us tired and not thinking about it too much we decide to cautiously take the back roads home. On our way down one of the roads almost home, we come across about 3 cars in the road, one in the ditch and a massive SUV, down in the ditch on the other side about 50 yards down from the first ditched car, turned on its side covered half way up in the standing water caused by the massive amounts of rain.

Pooh of course stops on our way to make sure no one needs help. Of course, no one has notified the police yet. So Pooh calls 911. They answer, he tells them where we are at and in the process of this we pull The $100 Wonder Car, crossways into the middle of the road so that no other cars try to pass the roadway as they would lose it.

Trying to recreate a little bit of the conversation between the dispatcher and Pooh Bear I hear him tell the lady "There is someone coming up behind us and around us in a van. He just went almost in the ditch to get around me and Oh No!..." Then I hear the lady on the other line go "Please tell me he is not going to try and go through it." About then...sure enough, the guy guns his van and tries to blow through the water. Pooh Bear tells the operator "Yep he's goin throug
it...And he's floating. Yall need to get someone out here as soon as you can and get this road closed."

So we await help to get there in the middle of the road until they show up. In the midst of all of this Pooh opens up the trunk, gets his rain gear and his life jacket and walks over to help the person in the van. While doing this he yelled to the man in the van to ask if he was ok. There was no response so he yelled again. Finally the man yelled back that he was alright. Pooh thought about going out there to get this guy out of his van but after thinking about it he'd decided not to. One there was no telling where that water came from and two, he cannot swim very well and while there looked like there was no current on the surface, with as deep as it was, it was surely a creek that ran over and there was no telling what was in the water.

We waited until our city Emergency Management got there, talked to them about it and when everyone got there, we headed home. Finally getting there we came in, turned on the TV and went to bed. It was about 2:30am by this time. At about 4 I was awakened by the thunderstorm approaching and looked at my television to see the minivan driver being inteviewed by our local news station.

I find that the man had 2 children in the back of his van and he lied on camera and said that he had no idea that the water was that deep on the road. Thus starts my rant on this blog today.

HOW STUPID DO YOU HAVE TO BE, TO SEE A HUGE SUV TURNED ON ITS SIDE IN
THE DITCH HALF WAY COVERED IN WATER AND THINK WITH YOUR CHILDREN IN THE VAN "OH, NO WORRIES! I CAN MAKE IT! JUST BECAUSE AN SUV LARGER THAN MY MINIVAN DIDN'T MAKE IT, DOESN'T MEAN I WONT." COME ON PEOPLE. DUH!!!!
YOU CANNOT DRIVE THROUGH THE WATER WHEN THERE IS A FLASH FLOOD!!! GOOD
RULE OF THUMB...IF YOU CAN'T SEE THE LITTLE YELLOW LINES THAT ARE
SUPPOSED TO BE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD...DON'T GO THROUGH IT! YOU
MOST LIKELY WON'T MAKE IT! YOUR VEHICLE IS DESIGNED TO KEEP WATER OUT
AND WILL FLOAT! YOU ARE NOT JESUS AND CANNOT WALK ON WATER NOR CAN YOUR CAR! PLEASE...DONT BE LIKE THIS GUY WAS. DON'T PUT YOUR CHILDRENS LIVES IN DANGER BECAUSE YOU THINK YOU CAN MAKE IT. IF IT LOOKS IFFY AND IF
YOU CANNOT SEE THE LINES ON THE ROAD...DON'T TRY IT!

And thats what I have to say for tonight.