Wet enough for ya?

[Thorin]

Best tweet today: "The best thing about pouring rain?  If you go fast enough you just hydroplane over the pot holes!"

There's a few other pictures of underpasses flooding.  The problem is that the storm drains and storm sewer system aren't built to handle giant downpours because they're very, very infrequent and it costs a lot more to make them handle the bigger downpours.  But that means every ten to twenty years we'll have underpasses that are impassable for a day.

[Mr. Analog]

Remember the old 109th street tunnel?

I remember buses used to get stuck in there when it started flooding hah

[Tom]

Except 109th would flood every other month.

[Mr. Analog]

Pretty much

Crazy to think there was a whole switchyard there not too long ago...

[Tom]

Whitemud at 178th.


https://twitter.com/BrianSutherby/status/349611457341693955/photo/1

[Thorin]

And people wonder why I bought a pickup instead of a smaller car.  All the flooded Edmonton road pictures I've seen so far, the pickups are making it through.  Maybe if Edmonton had installed better storm sewers when they were still building up the city...

[Tom]

https://twitter.com/ZiyahKarmali/status/348882558278332416/photo/1