This picture was taken from where the old 99 Restaurant was on the Cranberry Highway in Wareham.
The town may have a bit of a problem here. This is the main road in East Wareham.
Granted, we had furious rainfall yesterday. However, this has been a long-running problem in the area.
I was driving in this area during Hurricane Irene, when 7 inches of rain fell. The flooding, which only covered a hundred yards of Cranberry Highway in yesterday's event. spilled into the Wal-Mart parking lot. I saw a people who were nearly washed away by it.
The road was impassable, and flooding was bad enough that a car was stranded and abandoned by the 7-11. I saw one guy stall out in the mess yesterday, and he had to shove his car out of the water.
I'm guessing at this, but Dick's Pond and Sand Pond may also be prone to sending their overflow into the Cranberry Highway, as the road flooding I have seen along this road over the years went down near each them.
This could be a major problem if a hurricane strikes us full-bore. This road, which is pretty far back from the sea and was flooded yesterday by rainwater, is the only way to evacuate Onset.
I have no idea how to fix stuff like this, but someone must. It seems to be a pretty major problem.
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