Driving home from work, Kristin Herman was gripping her steering wheel hard. It was mid-April, and one of the region’s heaviest rainstorms since Hurricane Ida was hurtling through Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
With the rain coming down, Herman, 37, couldn’t help but think about the harrowing drive she’d made from her family’s Downingtown home months earlier to escape Ida’s flooding. With her husband, Ross, at work and unable to get home on the highway, she had fled with their two young daughters to a friend’s house.
“By far the worst drive of my life. I never want to drive in rain now ever again,” said Herman, who described herself as “white-knuckled” that April day. “Driving in rain now is awful.”
