GUTHRIE, Okla. (KFOR) – Heavy rains and flash flooding made their technique to the metro Thursday afternoon into the night. This was after one spherical got here by early on in Guthrie. That storm dropped six inches of rain in only a matter of hours.
Afterward, roads flooded within the metro inside half-hour that the rain began to fall. It precipitated flooded streets and stalled vehicles everywhere in the metropolis. In southwest Edmond, drivers dared to undergo the excessive water. One in all them was a purple truck that whipped a U-turn in the midst of an intersection and virtually flipped over.
“Whoa, that man virtually misplaced it proper there making a U-turn, good golly. That was loopy,” mentioned KFOR photographer Kevin Josefy when the incident occurred.
Authorities advised KFOR {that a} water rescue occurred at one other scene simply south of 63rd Road and Might Avenue.
“After warmth, flooding is the primary climate associated killer, as a result of it could possibly sneak up on you,” mentioned KFOR meteorologist Emily Sutton on the scene. “It simply looks like water, nevertheless it solely takes a foot of water to drift a automobile.”
Farther south in Norman, which was one of many final metro cities to be slammed by the rain, authorities have been making an attempt to assist somebody in shin-deep water. Stalled vehicles have been taken away by tow vehicles on Lindsey Road and Chautauqua Avenue.
Whereas some vehicles within the metro dared to take their likelihood. Others circled and determined to not drown.
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