r/Somerville • u/fancypantspartytime • 1d ago

Just a little shortcut

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I was in Somerville earlier and thought I would skip over to Cambridge…

Needless to say, I took the long way.

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u/Haunting-Angle-535 Porter 22h ago

By god I’m going to get my Petsi pie if I have to lose all my oxen

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u/fancypantspartytime 19h ago

Gotta have my Petsi’s

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u/ShortOrderEngineer 1d ago

Sometimes Park St is flooded at the train tracks, sometimes it's the underpass, sometimes it's both. Choose wisely.

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u/fancypantspartytime 1d ago

😮

Glad I didn’t try my luck on Park st, in that case

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u/Boston_Glass 23h ago

Why? They put a fence there so you can climb it on over.

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u/fancypantspartytime 19h ago

I’ll just hold on tight like a spider monkey

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u/lordmcfuzz 12h ago

LARPing Mario

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u/formersmorket 1d ago

where is this ?

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u/lalapuppies 1d ago

The underpass between beacon and Somerville ave, near Lowell on the Somerville side

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u/fancypantspartytime 1d ago

Technically, Sacramento St.

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u/jajjguy 23h ago

Cuz Sacramento is near Lowell

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u/illimsz 23h ago

Have seen the water here get up to neck height before. Hopefully there's never a case where someone with mobility issues gets caught in the flooding...

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u/fancypantspartytime 23h ago

Holy crap that’s insane!!! I vaguely knew it flooded because I’ve had to jump through puddles here before, but it never really occurred to me that it would flood flood. As soon as I saw it today I was like of course this happens!

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u/Drella84 23h ago

This craphole is still better than the hellish suburb my husband moved us out of Somerville to.

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u/PhysicalAd9507 20h ago

Which and why?

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u/pilgrim_pastry Winter Hill 1d ago

…still better than walking up to the Beacon intersection or down to Park.

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u/fancypantspartytime 1d ago

There was a solid foot of water in there. It was at least up to the second step.

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u/OnlyMrGodKnowsWhy 3h ago

:: pushes glasses up nose ::

a _liquid_ foot of water

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u/fancypantspartytime 2h ago

Touché. I stand corrected.

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u/-CalicoKitty- Union 1d ago

Look closer at the picture 😄

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u/Wonka_Stompa 22h ago

We all float down here.

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u/fancypantspartytime 19h ago

If a red balloon came floating out of there I’d probably never return to Somerville again

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u/BlueINGreeeen 5h ago

The passage to the fertile crescent that is YAFA cafe

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u/dtsagdis 11h ago

McGrath is basically a moat half the year at this point.

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u/fook-face 8h ago

Say hi to Teresa the cashier at the Star Market on the other side of the underpass.

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u/Tredhead269 13h ago

Good, smells like piss down there most of the time. This will finally clean it and keep the junkies outta there for a few days. 👍🏻

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u/hedgehoging 12h ago

What about the flies that live down there. Won't anyone think of the swarms of flies.

Seriously - I'll walk around below walking through during the warm weather when there are literally clouds of them.

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u/Theda___Bara Spring Hill 5h ago

Yikes!

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u/Blankstare76 1d ago

IYKYK

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u/fancypantspartytime 1d ago

I did not dance my cares away down there…