4th Avenue Floods Again
The recent rains were too much for the drainage systems of 4th Avenue, it seems. According to these photos from the Facebook page of the Root Hill Cafe, which is at the corner of Carroll Street, the flooding took out the entire intersection and much of Carroll Street going down towards the canal. Based upon…
The recent rains were too much for the drainage systems of 4th Avenue, it seems. According to these photos from the Facebook page of the Root Hill Cafe, which is at the corner of Carroll Street, the flooding took out the entire intersection and much of Carroll Street going down towards the canal. Based upon the comments, it sounds like this isn’t the first time this spot has been hit either. You can click on any of the photos above to expand or go to the jump to see a video of the same scene.
Did any of the businesses suffer any water damage???
Glad this sort of thing doesn’t happen where I live. And I pay far less in taxes!!!!
m4l — Yikes! I don’t think I have insurance that would cover that…. I don’t even have theft. That would totally suck.
Every five years…
This is terrible.
Folks like Root Hill are trying to make a go of it and new development is coming to 4th Ave. The city should fix this long-staning problem.
What idiot would voluntarily drive thru that when they could turn off and go up 5th or 3rd? Just driving thru can flood the engine in smallish car.
Eeeeeuuuuw, Gowanus overflow…
What a mess, man. Mission Delores and 580 Carroll are in some trouble, it seems.
ouch. those car engines are toast if they sit in that water for too long