Residents were trying something un-"bee"-lieveable: honey produced by a colony of bees living underground on Lambert Street.
Police said the driver was speeding and failed to negotiate a curve before crashing into the Hatfield Sewer Authority and winding up in a large pit containing treated sewer water.
Authorities have blocked off Chestnut Street between 20th and 21st streets in Center City.
Approximately 65 inches of rain fell on the Lehigh Valley in 2018, the third wettest ever recorded in the region, and that much water can lead to a variety of problems, not the least of which is overwhelmed sewer systems.
A New Jersey woman was cleaning her bathroom when her 20th-anniversary diamond ring fell into the toilet and down the drain. She thought it was gone forever.
Before you flush a wipe down the toilet, consider the divers who might have to swim through 80 feet of sewage to pull it out.