While some truckers are still trying to recover their flooded rigs, others are battling highway damage and debris after a tropical storm that killed 16 in the Houston area.
According to published reports, the horrendous flooding was so localized that many truckers didn't realize the danger until it was too late.
Those who didn't find their rigs flooded or swept away by the floodwaters were held up by weather and closed highways along Interstate 10 and I-610. The state Transportation Department's list of closed roads at the height of the storm included such major freeways as I-10, I-45 south from I-10 to U.S. 59 and portions of Texas 288.
Truck driver Charles Steele had to swim away from his big rig when the rapidly rising water made his empty tanker trailer float.
''It's probably totaled,'' he told the Associated Press.
After the flood waters receded, truckers faced some parts of the highway that had "turned into a post-flood pile of warped rubble," according to the Associated Press. A portion of I-10 was still closed Monday afternoon.
"Clearly this was a monumental flood for what it did to truck traffic," Texas Motor Transportation Association President Bill Webb told the AP. "Without I-10 there pretty much is not truck traffic in Houston."
According to published reports, the horrendous flooding was so localized that many truckers didn't realize the danger until it was too late.
Those who didn't find their rigs flooded or swept away by the floodwaters were held up by weather and closed highways along Interstate 10 and I-610. The state Transportation Department's list of closed roads at the height of the storm included such major freeways as I-10, I-45 south from I-10 to U.S. 59 and portions of Texas 288.
Truck driver Charles Steele had to swim away from his big rig when the rapidly rising water made his empty tanker trailer float.
''It's probably totaled,'' he told the Associated Press.
After the flood waters receded, truckers faced some parts of the highway that had "turned into a post-flood pile of warped rubble," according to the Associated Press. A portion of I-10 was still closed Monday afternoon.
"Clearly this was a monumental flood for what it did to truck traffic," Texas Motor Transportation Association President Bill Webb told the AP. "Without I-10 there pretty much is not truck traffic in Houston."
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