Flood in Tampa

Tampa had record rainfall today. I have lived in Tampa Bay area for over 35 years and I have never seen it rain this hard. In fact, by 2 p.m. there was a record amount of rain. According to the Bay News 9 app on my phone the band of bad weather was moving in the moving in hard. I, like many others, was attempting to get to the safety of home. I did not make it. I had to seek high ground just blocks from where I live because the water was rising visibly. I was lucky more than others because I did not flood out. While waiting for the water to subside I walked over to Kennedy Boulevard and was astonished at what I saw. The water line was over the curb in the parking lot and up to the building structures themselves. Multiple cars have been abandoned because their engines had taken on water. It look like a disaster zone. It look like the road to Bagdad after the Allied bombing. It is amazing how just water can cause such problems. Many people suffered today and this is just an inkling of what could happen is there was a major hurricane. I've posted some photos what I saw you will see them on this post. What was amazing is that during all of this my tablet was lit up with people needing taxi cabs. I guess if their car is flooded they must think we have amphibious vehicles in 20 years of driving taxi I never cease to be amazed at the wisdom of people. I hope people are safe and that property damage was kept to a minimum


The water made it into this store.



My taxi on higher ground.



Don't drown. Turn around.
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