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Tow trucks busy as flash flooding leaves Durham drivers stranded

Friday, April 12, 2019
DURHAM, N.C. (WTVD) -- After the downpours finally cleared in Durham, a storm of tow trucks moved in on a part of Garrett Road near Old Chapel Hill Road to clear away all the cars that stalled out in the flash-flood waters.

When the storm system dropped all that rain Friday, it quickly flooded the streets in this piece of Durham.
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ABC11 watched driver after driver make the regrettable decision of trying to drive their car through that high water.

Most of them made it - but their engines went kaput right after.

They all had to be towed out of here.

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Meanwhile, a similar story out on University Drive - not far from the old Nana's restaurant.



Nana's is no longer operating out of that location, but the flash-flood problems when it rains have stuck around.
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In Durham's Forest Hills neighborhood, near Forest Hills Park, both lanes of the road were consumed by flooding.

The rains let up just in time, before things got a lot worse.

Back on Garrett Road, Durham Police and that small army of tow trucks got the last car out by around 9:30 p.m.

And remember, turn around, don't drown.
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