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  Cars Trapped In Frozen Flood by computerglobal(m): 6:34pm On Jan 07, 2018
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.

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.
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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



Also in Virginia, a 75-year-old man was hit and killed by a snowplow while clearing snow from parking lots.

According to the National Weather Service, Boston broke the record for the highest ever recorded tide on Thursday.

Benjamin Sipprell, a meteorologist in Boston for the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, told the Daily Beast that the flooding was a result of the blizzard hitting at high tide, and the high tide being higher than usual due to Wednesday's supermoon.

A supermoon is a full moon that occurs when the moon is closest to Earth in its orbit. This happens about four to six times a year.


Watch video http://www.cnn.com/videos/weather/2018/01/06/frozen-cars-flood-revere-massachusetts-cnni.cnn

Re:   Cars Trapped In Frozen Flood by IdeyFindWife: 7:02pm On Jan 07, 2018
This is no weather to be outdoors.

Na why I dey pity guys who comot Naija to go hustle on blue-collar level, doing all manner of odd jobs and they still send funds to Naija peeps, entrusting projects to them only to get fleeced and thoroughly jobbed by these their own heartless famz!

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Re:   Cars Trapped In Frozen Flood by GAZZUZZ(m): 7:09pm On Jan 07, 2018
we de wait dem for naija grin

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Re:   Cars Trapped In Frozen Flood by oliverjiad(m): 7:34pm On Jan 07, 2018
GAZZUZZ:
we de wait dem for naija grin
Nah so, grin

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Re:   Cars Trapped In Frozen Flood by mammanbawa: 9:55pm On Jan 07, 2018
Nigerian waiting for the salvaged vehicles like

Re:   Cars Trapped In Frozen Flood by Nobody: 12:57am On Jan 08, 2018
IdeyFindWife:
This is no weather to be outdoors.

Na why I dey pity guys who comot Naija to go hustle on blue-collar level, doing all manner of odd jobs and they still send funds to Naija peeps, entrusting projects to them only to get fleeced and thoroughly jobbed by these their own heartless famz!

I hear you Brother.

I'm slowly building my estate. I do what I can whenever I come home and I lock the gate when I leave.

Some "Nairaland children" have accused me of "laying one block per year" but that's better than hearing stories that touch grin

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Re:   Cars Trapped In Frozen Flood by Nobody: 12:58am On Jan 08, 2018
computerglobal:
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.

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.

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

Also in Virginia, a 75-year-old man was hit and killed by a snowplow while clearing snow from parking lots.

According to the National Weather Service, Boston broke the record for the highest ever recorded tide on Thursday.

Benjamin Sipprell, a meteorologist in Boston for the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, told the Daily Beast that the flooding was a result of the blizzard hitting at high tide, and the high tide being higher than usual due to Wednesday's supermoon.

A supermoon is a full moon that occurs when the moon is closest to Earth in its orbit. This happens about four to six times a year.

Watch video http://www.cnn.com/videos/weather/2018/01/06/frozen-cars-flood-revere-massachusetts-cnni.cnn

I've never heard of leaving the trunk open. Never.
Re:   Cars Trapped In Frozen Flood by GAZZUZZ(m): 5:24am On Jan 08, 2018
EgunMogaji:


I've never heard of leaving the trunk open. Never.

the talk taya me sef.

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Re:   Cars Trapped In Frozen Flood by IdeyFindWife: 6:40am On Jan 08, 2018
EgunMogaji:


I hear you Brother.

I'm slowly building my estate. I do what I can whenever I come home and I lock the gate when I leave.

So "Nairaland children" have accused me of "laying one block per year" but that's better than hearing stories that touch grin

They are illiterate jokers and you know kids will often blab about issues that adults employ caution to speak about! They know nothing!!

A prosperous new year to you too, high chief!

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Re:   Cars Trapped In Frozen Flood by sultaan(m): 6:36am On Jan 09, 2018
EgunMogaji:


I hear you Brother.

I'm slowly building my estate. I do what I can whenever I come home and I lock the gate when I leave.

Some "Nairaland children" have accused me of "laying one block per year" but that's better than hearing stories that touch grin


That there was funny.

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Re:   Cars Trapped In Frozen Flood by adanny01(m): 6:49am On Jan 09, 2018
EgunMogaji:


I've never heard of leaving the trunk open. Never.

I am confused too, trunk open and wipers up.

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Re:   Cars Trapped In Frozen Flood by Nobody: 7:28am On Jan 09, 2018
adanny01:


I am confused too, trunk open and wipers up.

Wipers I get and I actually do that occasionally.

But never the trunk.
Re:   Cars Trapped In Frozen Flood by ricki: 9:29am On Jan 09, 2018
they lift the trunk up because it is easier to gain entry whilst the doors might have frozen solid...... grin


absolutely no way to open dem doors.

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Re:   Cars Trapped In Frozen Flood by dcole73: 3:00am On Mar 14, 2018
Flooded cars that will later be sent to Nigeria as Tokunbo.

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