From The Sunday Times:
PERTH commuters are facing an afternoon of traffic chaos after a burst water main completely blocked three southbound lanes of the city’s main freeway.
At 3pm, traffic was backed up around 5km, and a Main Roads spokeswoman said there was no prospect of a quick re-opening of the freeway.
A Water Corporation spokeswoman said the 1m-diameter main water pipe burst about 1pm near the Mill Point Road turn-off, just south of the CBD.
Around 15 kilolitres of water spilled from the burst pipe, the equivalent of seven Olympic-size swimming pools, and the road was reported to be covered to a depth of about a half a metre.
A semi-trailer was stuck in the water, further delaying repair efforts, and some businesses in the South Perth area were evacuated because of the risk of flooding.
Because of that, I was stucked in the office until 8pm last night. The whole city’s traffic was already congested from 3:30pm onwards. It literraly just stopped moving. Some people were just stucked on a particular street for 2 long hours!! Was so tired but can’t go home. Sigh, what a way to start the weekend.
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Dun worry… if something bad happens to you now, you’ll sure be a lucky lady over the weekend, as msot of your bad luck has been ’spent’.
Hehe, wish you enjoy your fantastic autumn weekend! (Btw when izit going to be winter? Or izit winter now?)
hahaha…reminds of u a day in KL when it rains and floods doesn’t it??
Such irony! hehehe
so u heard bout the new at work? luckily didn’t go home at 5 if not stuck in the bus for duno how long. at least stuck in the ofice better than bus…. office can surf net and drink coffee or wateva.
I missed all the excitement…. I only heard about it on the evening news!
Hope your weekend turned out ok
I agree with what Vic said up there! Some days are just hard on you but at the end things will be okay, am waiting for mine to be okay!