This is why you should heed hurricane flood warnings
 

So I was farting around on ye old Facebook account yesterday, and my great bud up in the Philly area let me know that his wife's really good friend, one who was at their wedding last October (along with me) was killed.

Turns out the night that Irene was supposed to hit the Philly area this lady got the idea to go to her boyfriends house after it had already been raining for about 6 hours. A creek on the way had flooded, and she decided to try and cross it anyway. She got stuck, called 911 but obviously panicked and never even got out of her seatbelt and drowned. They found a guy about 50 yards away in the same predicament, except he crawled out and sat on his roof until he could be rescued.

Spread the word people, flooding water is some serious ****...don't mess with it.

I guess hurricanes don't just blow things down. All these guys saying the reports of Irene were way exaggerated must be eating some crow by now. Flooding in VT is heaviest since 100 years.

Earlier this summer, a local young boy (12) was tragically pulled under a stream's current into a storm drain during a rain storm. He was under w/o oxygen for ten minutes. He is breathing on his own but is non-responsive. It was not a tornado or hurricane or flash flood. It was a swelled creek.

No one here believes that we shouldn't be warned about storms. It just seemed in the Philly area the storm became commercialized for the sake of viewership .... Tragedies became viewership teasers, words of condolence rang hallow......