Cranberry Highway Flooding Becoming A Chronic Problem

This picture was taken from where the old 99 Restaurant was on the Cranberry Highway in Wareham.

The town may have a bit of a problem here. This is the main road in East Wareham.

Granted, we had furious rainfall yesterday. However, this has been a long-running problem in the area.

I was driving in this area during Hurricane Irene, when 7 inches of rain fell. The flooding, which only covered a hundred yards of Cranberry Highway in yesterday's event. spilled into the Wal-Mart parking lot. I saw a people who were nearly washed away by it.

The road was impassable, and flooding was bad enough that a car was stranded and abandoned by the 7-11. I saw one guy stall out in the mess yesterday, and he had to shove his car out of the water.

I'm guessing at this, but Dick's Pond and Sand Pond may also be prone to sending their overflow into the Cranberry Highway, as the road flooding I have seen along this road over the years went down near each them.

This could be a major problem if a hurricane strikes us full-bore. This road, which is pretty far back from the sea and was flooded yesterday by rainwater, is the only way to evacuate Onset.

I have no idea how to fix stuff like this, but someone must. It seems to be a pretty major problem.

West Wareham Wal Mart Opens Today

I doubt that Jessica was aiming for irony with her camera, but she found some.

The West Wareham Wal Mart Supercenter opened today. It replaced the Wal-Mart in East Wareham.

The big difference is that this is a Super Wal-Mart, which means that they have a supermarket.

As you can see, no expenses were spared to welcome the shoppers to the new Wally.

There are some pros and cons. It's not a 24 hour Wally, which is bad news for journalists who might be nocturnal. They have the same Subway franchise as the other Wally did, with the same people running it. There isn't a bank in it.

They do have a nice grocery section, and it's a brand new building. The grocery section is bigger than the old Wareham location, but not as big as the one n Plymouth. You can drop right off 195 or 25 onto it.

There aren't any bells and whistles, it's a Wal-Mart. You'd like to think that new ones would be spectacular, but they pretty much have about 5-20 blueprints they break out depending on how big the town is, or how close to the highway the store is.

Nothing against my girl Red, however... she's puttin' in work.

Nothing says "Patriot" like a 100% Made In China tailgate zone. Winner of the 2015 "Most Ominous Use Of Scarecrows" award at Cannes.

Wally was giving out some free stuff, and they had vendors all over the place. Do note the Wareham school colors on that cupcake, homie!

If you hug it, it gives you a free drink. When I dry-humped it, it had the nerve to give me a Coke Zero. It'll be amazed when I don't call, too...

"Rotting meat on stale bread, prepared by savages"... Jim Norton, on Subway

All this and more awaits you at the West Wareham Super Walmart Supercenter!