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Excessively Moist

February 22nd, 2007

So, I was driving through downtown and noticed something strange.? There was a ginormous amount of water flowing down a street, but it wasn’t even raining.? Turns out, a water main broke and turned loose some infinite gallons of water down this steep street.? These pictures don’t do this scene any justice, the low lighting made it hard to show how much water there was.? Not only were there large streams on both sides of the street, but the velocity that the water was comming down this hill was amazing.?

Water main broke

 

Water current

This somewhat illustrates the speed of the water running down the hill.? This is a current caused by a curb where a driveway is.

 

Lots of water

 

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Car drives through flooded street

The brown streaks at the bottom are the water flowing down the hill.? The speed of the water made it blurry like the car.

 

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This one shows approximately how much of the street is taken over by water in some places.

 

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I could not figure out what the people on the left were doing.? They were holding what appeared to be golf clubs in the stream of water flowing down the side of the street.? It looked like there was a news crew setting up to film also.

 

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? More currents in the street from the speed of the water.

 

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This is the bottom of the hill where the water was going to.? I should have followed it to see how far it ran and what it was flooding.? The storm drains in the street were either already filled from the water or couldn’t handle the flow.

 

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Should have followed the stream to find the lake.? Oh well.

Nick Des Moines, Downtown, Unusual

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