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Alas: You can't pass at Mass. and Cass
By adamg on Tue, 12/09/2014 - 2:58pm
Fenway flooding causes gridlock around 5 p.m. Photo by Brendan.
Reports of flooding are beginning to pour in. The intersection of Melnea Cass Boulevard and Massachusetts Avenue became a liquid mess. State Police are busy diverting cars on Morrissey Boulevard in Dorchester, due to flooding southbound by Lambert's and northbound at Tolman by the credit union.
UPDATE: 4:30 p.m. Police blocked off the underpass on Huntington Avenue at Mass. Ave. due to two feet of water. Roads in Franklin Park are also reported flooded.
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Morrissey should have been
Morrissey should have been preemptively closed. I'm not sure I specifically remember Cass & Mass flooding before. Does that always happen in heavy rain?
When I was driving home from
When I was driving home from work around 1, Cass and Harrison (so, in front of Water & Sewers office) was completely flooded, at least a foot of water across the road for at least 200 feet . They had crews there but it didn't look like it was getting any better fast.
Mass & Cass was fine on the other side at that point, though.
Oh the irony
Road floods in front of the Water and Sewer Division's Office.
Careful on Mass in Arlington
With the deconstruction of Mass Ave here, the contractor, Lynch, installed silt filters in all the storm drains at the town's request. With the first heavy rain, there was major flooding due to the flow restriction of the filters. It was addressed by using rods to tear holes in the filters, breaking them.
Alas, not all the filters were destroyed, some remain intact, and none were removed for the winter construction break. So, you will find the flooding and lane losses near the remaining filters.
Lane losses?
I was told on a number of occasions by the town government, when I lived in Arlington, that Mass Ave is only one lane each way, except between Mill St. and Medford St.
So you must mean shut downs, right?
That's totally relevant to a
That's totally relevant to a discussion of flooding in Roxbury. Maybe if the Arlington DPW swept the streets more than once or twice a year, that wouldn't happen.
Mabye if the Town of Arlington
were't so paranoid about "environmental damage" as to do something so stupid as to put silt filters in storm drains, that wouldn't happen.
Nah
It just means they'll have to clean out the catch basins sooner rather than later.
Hopefully the catch basins have sumps catching said solids.
That would be environmentally responsible of the Town to have previously installed. The silt fabric just makes life easier for the Town during construction. The Contractor is then forced to babysit the filter fabric rather than do their job (if they didn't already account for said babysitter in their bid).
its just nasty all around
I wanted to run today at the gym... in the two minute walk from my office building to BSC DTX, my shoes got soaked. Oh well. Teaches me not to wear my gym shoes everywhere (okay I am a sneakers kinda guy at work)
Seeing reports in twitter that parts of 1A in Revere are flooded as are the US 1 ramps also. (according to Revere Scanner)
Puddles are getting very large as are the flowing rivers of water everywhere... we might float away.
Silver Lining: just be glad this isn't snow (at least for us in Boston). We would be buried by now.
What a noob, goretex sneakers
What a noob, goretex sneakers FTW
yeah
you gonna pay for them for me? :)
yeah no.. :) I also can't wear most shoes due to very wide feet.
You gotta earn it ;)
You gotta earn it ;)
Also if you can afford dtx gym memberships, you can afford waterproof sneakers. Its 2014 we have the technology