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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
Good day to stay home, I'd say.
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Nah... Nothing stops just because of floods here. People move their belongings to upper floors until the waters go down, drive slower in their motorscooters having first put extensions over the tail pipes, the shops all sandbagged before the water came inside... Similar to a foot of snow in Vermont... nothing stops until it gets so bad that the school buses can't get through. New York City shuts down tight at 2" of snow. The flooding isn't a general, all-over flood either. The street I live on never floods, even when the next street over has two feet of water covering it. It becomes more of a 'plan your route to avoid the deeper places' sort of travel. It always floods in the same places, and does so every year with every major storm. We've been away for a few years, so I have to re-learn the best routes to take to get from here to there. That red truck in the picture is one of our local taxis. Bench seats in the back hold about 8-10, and they don't necessarily go directly to where you want to go, depending on other people's destinations, but it only costs about 25¢ to go anywhere in the city, you get to your destination eventually, and doesn't stop for flood waters!
Stitchawl