Kevin Tarr wrote:
>
> Sunday night in SOUTH central PA there was a train of thunderstorms, a line
> that pops up over the same area and moves in the direction of the storm
> front, instead of tracking perpendicular. Estimates say there was 6+ inches
> in four hours in some places. But from a different source estimates from
> Doppler radar can be high when hail is in a storm, usually doubling the
> actual amount that fell.
>
> Sadly two people died in the flood waters from the storm. But only one
> story stated that the person drove onto a bridge already covered with
> water. While I have sympathy for the dead, every story should be stating
> the wrong decision that lead to the deaths instead of ignoring it.
>
> Kevin T. - VRWC
> News you can use
They're not playing that up?
Around here, whenever there's a storm system leading to flooding, every
media outlet I'm aware of warns everyone not to drive over bridges
covered with water. Repeatedly. And there's always at least one idiot
who ignores all the warnings, usually before the flooding situation is
over, and they start reporting *that* immediately, and that's usually
enough to keep everyone else from being that sort of an idiot. (If
there are 2 or 3 such cases, they usually happen close enough together
that the first one hadn't made enough news outlets to have an impact on
the others.)
One other thing I've noticed is that at least some of the local stations
will report on who was wearing seatbelts when there was a really nasty
automobile accident, and it usually turns out that the folks who were
wearing seatbelts suffered less serious injuries than those who
weren't. Of course, depending on how badly a car has been squished,
that's not always enough -- but all things being equal, it seems that
seat belts can make a big difference in how bad injuries are. And
letting people know that it's not just the state law, but could make a
difference in your quality of life immediately following an accident,
that's not a bad thing.
Julia
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