Thread: Boston floods....then freezes

-As Boston digs out from Thursday's blizzard that dumped over a foot of snow and led to its worst flooding in 40 years, it was faced with another weather headache - single-digit temperatures that created rivers of ice water and trapped a number of cars.

Images from Boston on Friday show cars stuck in frozen floodwaters that reach up to the hoods in some cases.

Some car owners tried to prepare for the storm by lifting their windshield wipers and opening their trunks so that they wouldn't be buried under snow and frozen.

But it is unlikely they anticipated that the cars would be done in by floodwaters.

One amateur video filmed in Revere, Massachusetts, the coastal city just north of Boston, showed a large sheet of ice covering the street.

According to The Boston Globe, about 20 residents needed to be evacuated from their homes. Some of them were rescued by high-water vehicles deployed by the National Guard...

*pics at link*

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...rs-Boston.html

That's crazy. I don't get the trunk up thing though.

We had temperatures down to 0 F when I was a child and lived in Champaign, Illinois.

Originally Posted by krystian

Some car owners tried to prepare for the storm by lifting their windshield wipers and opening their trunks so that they wouldn't be buried under snow and frozen...

Originally Posted by fuego

That's crazy. I don't get the trunk up thing though.

I know, not sure either...anyone know?