VIDEO: Downtown Meriden sees severe flooding from Elsa

Meriden police urged residents to avoid the downtown part of the city due to flooding on Friday afternoon.

[@Bessency75]

Also thanks meriden for the property tax hikes to pay for that new system. Stellar work at town hall

[@phdep1]

The Meriden Green flood retention design worked exactly as planned and made for a minor flooding incident that quickly cleared itself that day. If they hadn't done that work Meriden would be dealing with a far greater problem in their downtown right now that would have been very expensive to fix.

[@Bessency75]

So much for the park at the center of meriden which was supposed to prevent floods like that. Money well spent?

[@cv8683]

prevent? i don't think that is a realistic possibility. this project was meant to mitigate not prevent.

[@hpgdovin]

Used to flood like this every spring, and lasted a lot longer than a few hours. It was pretty awful but considering it's been 25 years since it's flooded it's a huge improvement. Downtown sits at the bottom like a cereal bowl. Huge hill on the east side that runs right to downtown, and the west side is a smof a huge hill coming down the east side, and the west side is a smaller hill, but it still traps the water. If we flood every 25 years we're doing much better than we ever have.

[@harunaydin2251]

What state it is ?

[@lenniekroher3740]

Connecticut

[@jhonditch4269]

wow looking like 1955 awesome,

[@cookinglife8607]

I just moved to this city few days ago and had no idea this even happened. Would this effect Olive st?

[@candyfranklinqueenrahshaal7568]

Prayers 🙏🏿 for Meriden. My mother's hairdresser has a shop there ...

[@maxwaters1461]

Ok.....so what state is this in?

[@edwinrodeo]

Ct..

[@introfiant30]

My tax dollars hard at work. It was supposed to cure that! Instead, we spent the money building Section 8 housing and further turning Meriden into a cesspool .

[@RocketmanRockyMatrix]

Maybe Ida did the trick.

[@matthewfillmore3935]

This ain't nothing I remember when it flooded back in the 90s people out on paddle boats 🤣

[@jamelswain2867]

She's beautiful

[@slyclyde2900]

Smh

[@JohnJames_23]

Who!

[@cv8683]

why is this relevant? when a man reports a news story do you comment on his looks? not every opinion merits publicity. you aren't complimenting the journalist by commenting on her looks.

[@ginagonzalez5128]

I drove to work in this just made it had to turn around twice because of flooding it was crazy

[@benestey8015]

My fiance and I live in the hills of Meriden so thank goodness we didnt see any of this or try to go out. I had no idea it got this bad. Just wow.

[@cv8683]

downtown meriden is built on a river basin,

[@trulysurprised-bk7cy]

DEEP making mandates on storm water runoff has created restrictions that keep the water from running off. Towns and cities are afraid to cut roadside debris to open up the ditches that the water runs off in.

[@maxwaters1461]

So Where the F is Meriden?

[@edwinrodeo]

CT … crack heaven

[@JohnJames_23]

@@edwinrodeo nah that’s new haven, Bridgeport or Waterbury hahahh

[@simplyvictoriaj]

In Connecticut. Halfway from New Haven, CT and Hartford, CT

[@maxwaters1461]

@@simplyvictoriaj Thank you

[@simplyvictoriaj]

@@maxwaters1461 You are welcome.

[@freedomrings.0007]

Yeah this is where I live and within minutes my street turned into a lake. When the rain stopped it was within minutes that it had dissipated too. Pretty wild!

[@natsuki3672]

I live in meriden

[@tatianapolanco2115]

And more rain is in the forecast…