Flooding in Bromsgrove/Worcester
Posted on July 21, 2007 in the Personal, Tips/Reviews category
OMG I have had the worse day. The rain has been going on for what seems like forever which has brought chaos to the roads. Driving to work wasn’t too bad, there was flooding on the A38 from Worcester to Bromsgrove but the little Yaris made it through the foot deep water. Deliveries at work were a disaster cos of all the flooding. People were waiting 1hr 30mins for food cos of all the traffic as people were slowing down for the floods.
My sister ended up losing the front number plate to the company car cos of the flooding, she has no idea when it slipped off or how it happened so I have to sort that out for tomorrow. Great(!)
The drive back home was when the nightmare started. After driving through some minor floods in Bromsgrove, I reached the end of the M5 and saw that the police has closed it off so I had to take the A38 back to Worcester. I was preparing myself for the worse and I was right to. There was some major floods and then there was the big one. I swear it was like 2 feet of water and ahead I could see all the cars driving all the way to the right side of the road to get through. I followed a car through, I saw him go up the kerb but I thought I’d be ok to just say on the road. As I was going through the water I could see the waves go up nearly level with my window and I could feel the engine nearly giving way so I revved somemore and managed to get through. I was shaking after that, I was so scared, I thought I was going to get stuck in the water.
I was nearly home, about 1 minute away, all the cars ahead had gone off to different routes so it was just me. I got to the main road into Worcester and ahead of me there was the biggest ditch of water, it covered the whole road, it really looked like a river. I thought no way am I going to get through this, so I had to drive out of Worcester, on the A449 and back in on the A4440. I drover over the M5 and saw that the southbound traffic was heaving, the cars were not moving at all, I don’t know how people were going to get home. Anyway finally made it back home, I was so relieved, about 5 minutes later my parents arrived back home, think they wouldn’t have had as much trouble as I did because they drive a big 4×4.
Lesson learnt, don’t attempt to go through floods of nearly 2 feet deep
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