Saturday to be sticky and stormy in the DC region

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Pouring rain and storms hit the D.C. region Saturday, which led to significant flooding.

WTOP Meteorologist Mike Stinneford said there have been water rescues in Silver Spring and Takoma Park because of the flash flooding.

Montgomery County fire crews have reported a water rescue conducted in Takoma Park, where they found a vehicle stuck in floodwaters with the driver on top of the vehicle. The driver was safely brought to higher ground.

“There was a emergency vehicle attending with somebody” which caused traffic, WTOP’s Jimmy Alexander reported.

Officials said sewers in the area were backed up and not allowing water to drain.

WTOP’s Dave Dildine witnessed two women who were briefly trapped in a car that was floating in high water at East-West Highway and Washington Avenue in Silver Spring.

“It was very scary. It looked like it wasn’t that deep and then when you turned the corner you was in about five feet of water,” the driver told Dildine.

The car began slowly spinning around the flooded intersection, “and then the water started turning the car,” the driver said.

One of the women was pulled from the vehicle by a bystander while the other was assisted onto higher ground by Montgomery County Fire Rescue Services. Pierce Tewksbury had driven through the torrent of water just minutes earlier.

“If I had waited another two or three minutes, my car would have been stuck like theirs,” Tewksbury said. He and his brother Stewart ran into the waist-high water to assist the occupants.

“We saw people were in need of help and I pulled her out of the vehicle, got her over to dry land and waited for the fire department to come,” Tewksbury said.

“If [the conditions] had gotten worse in those couple of minutes and that car had drifted away, it goes completely underwater, you just don’t know what could happen. So I saw a situation and I acted. That’s really how I was raised,” he said.

Sligo Creek Parkway, along with numerous D.C.-area roads, were closed due to flooding along with numerous roads.