Man escapes waist-deep floodwater after rideshare gets stuck under Milwaukee bridge

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- A Milwaukee man trying to get to work late Wednesday, April 15 ended up wading out of floodwater after a rideshare vehicle got stuck under a bridge near Burleigh and 31st.

Corey Wedgeworth tells CBS 58 that he was headed to his third-shift job when the driver followed a navigation app route into the flooded underpass. Wedgeworth said he warned the driver not to head in that direction after seeing the water ahead, but the driver took that path anyway and became trapped.

Wedgeworth said he got out and made his way through waist-deep water before eventually returning home to change clothes and then heading to work.

He said his experience also left him thinking about Milwaukee families dealing with flooding across the city.