Tacoma high school stadium rapidly floods in 'epic rain storm'
Published in Weird News
TACOMA, Wash. (UPI) -- A student at a Washington state high school captured footage of the school's football stadium rapidly filling with water during an "epic rain storm."
The footage, recorded by student Ryan Wrzesien and posted to YouTube, shows the stands at Tacoma's Stadium High School turning into waterfalls amid a heavy rain storm Saturday.
The video shows water streaming through the stands and rapidly turning the grass of the football field into a giant puddle during what Wrzesien described as an "epic rain storm."
Tacoma Environmental Services said .42 inches of rain fell on the stadium in the space of only 10 minutes, far more than the facility's drainage pipes could handle.
School officials said the water ended up several feet deep. They said the facility will be closed for repairs until at least February.
"The recent storms kind of caught us by surprise," Dan Voelpel of Tacoma School District told KOMO-TV. We didn't think the storm drainage system would overflow like it did and then lead to a torrential downpour right into the stadium.
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