Braintree hit hard with flash floods Thursday

A mad dash for employees at a Braintree Volkswagen dealership had workers rushing to move cars to higher ground It didn t take long for the rising water to inundate the parking lot A family was forced to abandon they re minivan when it stalled out in high water It later took a organization to push that stalled van out In nearby Quincy the Quincy Center MBTA Station took on water as well as trains still ran but on a delay Specific intersections like at Bennington Street and Independence Avenue were totally flooded out I m trying to get here all the streets are flooded disclosed Annette Fabiano-Holmes whose business was almost flooded I pull in couldn t even get in had to go around to the back door Fabiano-Holmes a local florist was in a panic when she learned her shop was about to flood Came right up to the door when the cars were going through the water that s when the water would come in mentioned Fabiano-Holmes Making waves But other than that we re very lucky If the rain had kept going this would have been flooded