I don't know about you but my grandma has said this to me thousands of times.Me: "Grandma. Are you coming to my house". Grandma: "Well God willing and the creek don't rise I am coming". Seriously I never understood what that meant. That was until I moved to Pender County. The creek rises a lot more than I thought. I guess growing up outside of Raleigh the only creek I ever heard of rising was Crabtree Creek. But if Crabtree Creek did rise it took out most of the first floor of the mall, and the U-Haul dealership on Capital Blvd. always lost a few trailers. LOL!! People just knew to stay away from those places when we got a lot of rain.
However after moving to Pender County I realized some people (from all parts of the world) just do not have common sense. Note the picture above. This is Scott Road. I live on Scott Rd., I took this picture from my driveway. I would not attempt to cross a creek that is flowing even with David's F-250. But this GENIUS tried to go across it in his little car. What are people thinking? If you can see the water flowing with a current over the road then it is not a good idea to try to cross.
Just to reassure all of you. When I saw this I immediate drove as close as I felt was safe and tried to see in the car to see if anyone was in need of help. I couldn't see anyone in the car so I called the Highway Patrol and reported it, and drove up to the fire department to see if they were aware of it because God only knows how long it would take the trooper to get here today. The fireman that came out when I blew the horn said they had already checked it and there was no one in the car when they got there, and they did a search of the area. That made me feel better. But still I got a big case of anxiety because of this persons bad judgement.
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