Mike Dougherty's Blog

High water can kill

It’s so easy for us to recall the hundreds of times we splash through a puddle or slight rivulet of water as we drive through the streets to or from work.

Sometimes we should be slowing down to consider IF we should be driving through high water along the route. It doesn’t take but a few seconds for a stream to grow into a surging river — one that can overcome our vehicle and put us in harm’s way.

We’ve had a fatality in North Little Rock overnight. Let’s not add to the horror experienced by that family.

Be careful out there. It takes only seconds to be swept into danger.