Ivan's Wrath

September.18.2004 : Somewhere on the West Side Highway
Location: Somewhere along South Street on 9/18/2004




Even though Ivan was no longer a hurricane or even a tropical storm, the remnants of Ivan still packed strong winds and dumped sheets of rain.

Early in the morning we had to travel into the city today, and it was flooded everywhere. We live outside of the city and before leaving for the city, we lost electricity intermittently (and later for about 2 hours when we were in the city) and there were plenty of downed trees. It was slow going on the West Side Highway and on the east side along South Street, it was bad for the parked cars.

At times the wipers couldn't keep up with clearing the windshield. Normally we use our all-wheel drive Subaru Legacy Wagon, fortunately we decided instead to drive our Mercedes ML320 SUV. People may bash SUVs as a gas guzzler but at times like these, it's foolish to drive anything else.