Evening star., 1950-08-30
Scattered Rains
Due 10 Follow
Sudden Floods
Third Flash Storm
In 10 Days Strains
Sewer Capacity

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Scattered thunderstorms and
temperatures in the upper 80s are
forecast for today with the wea-
therman promising no more flash
floods" like those resulting from
yesterdays rainstorm.
For the third time in 10 days.
the floods occurred in several
parts of the city as yesterdays
rain, accompanied by thunder and
lightning, fell steadily for about
an hour.
Cutting a swath from Northwest
to Southeast, the thunderstorm
was about 10 miles in diameter.
In its duration it overtaxed sew
ers, flooded several areas, inun-
dated Easements, stalled traffic
and put Police Radio Station
KGA-240 in Prince Georges Coun-
ty, Md, out of commission for
some time.
Between GAS and tbs pm.
another thunderstorm struck
below Alexandria, Va, with heavy
rains reported at Quantico.
Police reported that Rock Creek
rose about Is feet, causing Beach
drive and Klingle road to be
blocked to traffic. The water rose
to the level of the Zoos me-
chanical shop, between Klingle
road and the main gate, but did
no damage.
Little Girl Rescued.
An unidentified 3-year-old girl
was rescued near the shop by
Pvts. Arthur E. Hawkins, jr., and
Clarence Brink of the Zoo Police.
At Fifth and Ingraham streets.
NV, Policemen Henry j. Schade
and Clifton r. Mothershead had
to dive into an almost submerged
taxicab to rescue the driver and
his woman passenger.
Two Of the worst flood areas
were at Military road NV,
through Rock Greek Park, and at
Missouri avenue NV, where ID
meets Military road at the en-
trance to the park. Automobiles
were stalled at Military road foe
as long as two hours.
Other Flood Areas.
Some other bad floods occurred
in the low areas around Seventh
and Hamilton streets NV, Fifth
and Ingraham streets NV. and
at Sheridan street between Third
and Fourth streets NV, near
Coolidge High School.
Throughout the city. about SO
man-hole covers were forced open
by the strain of the waters. A
traffic snarl occurred on Broad
Branch road, between Brandy
wine street and Nebraska avenue
NV, because of covers popping"
Two cars were submerged in six
feet of water at Third and Van
Buren Streets NV, and another
a few blocks away at Fifth and
Ingraham streets. At Fourth and
Sheridan streets. police car was
stopped by water.
Children were warned away
from the area around Fifth and
Rittenhouse streets NV. after
some of them playing in the rising
water had to be taken out.
At No. Precinct station, the
storm knocked out its teletype
for about two hours.
Trees Blown Down.
At least 80 trees were blown
down during the storm.
A large painted sign, 4 feet by
about so feet, blew down at the
storms height. It fell Is feet to
the pavement in front of Mann's
Motors, Inc, 1929 Georgia avenue.
Silver Spring. Md. No one was
injured.
Telephone wires were reported
down in about two dozen locali-
ties, but service was not greatly
affected.
Four Washington transit routes
suffered delays because of the
food waters, Capital Transit Co..
reported. A service pit for street.
cars at Georgia avenue and w
streets NV, was flooded, causing
some of the delay. The Military
road M-2 line was held up for
about half an hour when the
buses couldn't detour around a
flooded section. Buses also were
delayed at Military road and
Beach drive. A Commute detour
around the Fifth and Ingraham
street area affected the Takoma
J-6 line.
About a dozen power wires went
down, the Potomac Electric Power
Co., said. Gable failure put lights
out for an hour around Sixteenth
and Webster streets NV,
spokesman said.
Nearby areas, with one or two
exceptions. suffered little from the
rains, with many of them report
ing only sprinkle.
The Prince Georges County po-
lice radio dispatch station at the
County Service Building, Hyatts-
vile, Md, was knocked out Of
commission early in the, storm.
The radio functioned again about
II o'clock last night, but the cause
OF the stoppage was still being
In freak thunderstorm Mon
day night. three grade Angus beef
COWS were killed by lightning on d
farm owned by Earl Heap, near
Beallsville, Md.