The heavy, steady rain that pounded the region for more than 24 hours sent rivers over their beds, destroyed homes and caused one Montgomery County woman, caught in the grip of Beltway traffic, to deliver her third child in the back of a car.
A little before 10 a.m. Monday, the woman, whose name was not released by a fire department spokesman, realized she didn’t have time to reach Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring. She and her husband pulled over near the New Hampshire Avenue exit on the Capital Beltway, called police and, while the husband spoke to a dispatcher, their baby girl was born. Mother and daughter are doing fine, the spokesman said.
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