#762 Good Friday Floods, 4/3/15
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As if a giant had just stomped across Hill Street, a huge scar on a hillside shows where a mudslide on Friday morning forced temporary closure of the busy road until flood waters receded. 4/3/15
Ripped right off its face, a hillside on Hill Street shows damage from flash flooding that hit the Louisville area on Friday morning. 4/3/15
Tons of mud slid down a hill on Hill Street slowing traffic during a flooded Friday morning in Louisville. 4/3/15
A vehicle navigates past a mudslide on Hill Street near 15th as flash floods plagues the area on Friday morning. 4/3/15
The sign says it all as the tunnel on Brandeis Street suffers from flash flooding on Friday morning. 4/3/15
An iconic victim to flash flooding is the overpass near Floyd and Brandeis Streets on the UofL campus, and Friday morning it filled up fast. 4/3/15
A stranded motorist walks along a section of Preston Highway shut down by LMPD due to the Friday morning flooding and high rate of stalled vehicles. 4/3/15
Like a scene from a disaster movie, flood waters rise along Preston Highway as a fire at GE rages in the distance on an eventful Friday morning in Louisville. 4/3/15
Stranded motorists tread through knee deep water in a parking lot along Preston Highway on Friday morning as flash floods tore through the area. 4/3/15
Kevin Rapson (left) speaks to a few stranded motorists on Preston Highway as attention shifts to the fire at GE in the distance. 4/3/15
Flood waters rose along Preston Highway on Friday morning painting a surreal scene with sunrise light being filtered by a deep blue overcast. 4/3/15
Kevin Rapson chronicles the moment on his phone as several stories unfold before his eyes. The Friday morning scene was a mix of flash flooding along Preston Highway and a fire at GE raging in the distance. 4/3/15
With a raging fire at General Electric in the background and surrounded by flood waters in every direction, several Preston Highway businesses looked more like a set from a disaster film on Friday morning. 4/3/15
Businesses along Preston Highway awoke Friday morning to a new slew of problems related to overnight flash flooding. 4/3/15
Preston Highway businesses became islands in a lake as flash flooding hit Louisville hard on Friday morning. 4/3/15
Several parked cars in a lot on Preston Highway sit submerged by the flash flooding on Friday morning. 4/3/15
A drainage ditch along Preston Highway experienced rapid, deep currents during flooding on Friday morning. 4/3/15
Pedestrians were the only thing moving along a stretch of Preston Highway south of Fern Valley Road on Friday morning as overnight floods forced road closures and evacuations. 4/3/15