by toogie 15 Sep 2021

Hello Cuties, we have been having a lot of rainfall from Tropical storm Nicholas. My granddaughter Lanie leaves before daylight to go to her workplace. On the way this morning about 5 she was following a van. They had just crossed over a small bridge and the road curved. In the curve they hit high water. It was over the hood on her car! She phoned her mom 20 miles away to come get her. She said her car was starting to float. My daughter told her to call the sheriff department and get out of the car. The sheriff department said they couldn’t send a deputy out but they called the state police.

Mom had told Lanie to get out of the car. She couldn’t open the door against the water pressure so had to go out her door window. The water then went inside the car, but Lanie got out safely. She said she saw the state trooper drove to water edge, never got out of car, then turned around and left.
Later she saw a department of transportation truck come and put road blockage signs up on that edge of water. Then she said a detective picked her up from the other side and brought her to the police station where Marsha ( her mom) picked her up. She said that side which was the north side had Road Closed barricades up. The south side which was the side she came from didn’t until after she hit the water.
Lanie later went to the wrecker yard, where her car was eventually towed, to get her personal things out of car. The wrecker guy told her that her car would be totaled out. Water was still standing inside the floor of the car and her things were floating in the water.
I am so thankful she is alright, but I can’t help but feel bad for her. She has been working steady and this summer was able to pay down on her first home. She and I had just talked about her car. She owed $4,000 dollars on it and was planning on keeping it when she got it paid off, to go back and forth to work. She had gotten it brand new, a Toyota/ Corolla when she graduated high school a few years ago.
We are getting a lot of rain. I didn’t sleep much last night because it was coming down so hard. This morning our rain gauge was overflowing at 8 inches! We have rains in our forecast for all week. If we get any high winds trees will be coming down. Although our place is saturated we have no standing water.
Hope and pray the weather clears up and restoration work can continue in places still without power.
Hope all of you are well and good.❤️Toogie

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Comments (8)

by crafter2243 Moderator 16 Sep 2021

Oh my. How scary that must have been. I am so glad Lanie is OK. I keep on praying for rain in my part of the world.