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raccoon

(31,088 posts)
Sat Oct 10, 2015, 07:13 PM Oct 2015

A relative told me some people in Columbia are MOVING the barricades put

up to block dangerous damaged/flooded roads. On the radio they asked
people several times not to do that.

Somebody, please tell me this kind of stupid behavior occurs in other states.
It just would make me feel a little better.


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A relative told me some people in Columbia are MOVING the barricades put (Original Post) raccoon Oct 2015 OP
It does. Shandris Oct 2015 #1
yes they are mercuryblues Oct 2015 #2
Back in May we had torrential rain in the DFW area tammywammy Oct 2015 #3
 

Shandris

(3,447 posts)
1. It does.
Sat Oct 10, 2015, 07:16 PM
Oct 2015

We had about 10 of those people end up getting stuck when we flooded out pretty bad in one area of town here a few years back. What was funny was that even though you could see other cars stuck in the flooding, people would move the blockade and then drive forward and...you guessed it, get stuck. And they'd get out with this bewildered look on their face like "How did this happen?".

One of the craziest things I've ever seen (I lived down the road from the worse part of the flooding, so I could sit on my steps and watch this happen while the water was still cresting).

mercuryblues

(14,489 posts)
2. yes they are
Sat Oct 10, 2015, 08:59 PM
Oct 2015

moving them. 2 aid workers from Kentucky are dead, because of it. They drove down a road that was washed out, fell 20 ft into a river. 3 managed to escape the vehicle, but 2 died.

Yesterday a Harvest Hope volunteer deliberately his a National Guardsman that was directing traffic at the food bank. 4 looters have been arrested. How depraved do you have to be to steal things from the yards of home owners that lost so much? I have a friend that had blank checks stolen from her completely washed out apt. Seriously, she lost everything she owned and then someone tried to wipe out her bank account. Luckily for her she was at the bank reporting it stolen when someone tried to cash a check at Walmart.

tammywammy

(26,582 posts)
3. Back in May we had torrential rain in the DFW area
Sun Oct 11, 2015, 02:08 AM
Oct 2015

There were a few people that had to be rescued or died from moving the barricades to drive into flooded roads. I know I heard a few people died in South Carolina last week for the same thing

Some people are just stupid.

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