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The last time I drove through a puddle larger than a car, it was a 92 Buick Skylark, in North Carolina during the rainy season... I literally felt the car float off its wheels for a few seconds.. and this was with 5-6 inches of water..on a major road. Edit I may have been going a little fast for the conditions at that time 🤣
 
The last time I drove through a puddle larger than a car, it was a 92 Buick Skylark, in North Carolina during the rainy season... I literally felt the car float off its wheels for a few seconds.. and this was with 5-6 inches of water..on a major road. Edit I may have been going a little fast for the conditions at that time 🤣
You just didn't hit it fast enough!
 
Yeah, I have gotten out at big puddles and walked in, checking them with a pole.
Edit to add, I have raced across puddles on known roads. Hydroplaning is a gas and the rooster tails can be impressive. I was that guy out in Seaside once, completely dousing an Acura with my wash.
 
Ok, I am going to admit I was on such a rescue as this one. Only it was a training excessive and we were pretending it was 4 feet of rapid water. The video they took of it was pretty silly, but it was also clear that we were all pretending, including the victim getting down in the ~8 inch puddle and flailing around wildly (a big shout out to "professional" victim volunteers, it takes skill to play a convincing idiot).

I cannot tell if that is the vibe here, but the laugh as she got out of the car told me people had stopped taking the situation seriously, if they ever were in the first place. If this was a real call I kinda wonder if the incident lead went "Wait seriously, she called for this? Ok, you know what, swift water training exercise, don't let the "victim" know. Go!"

If this was a serious response (which I am not discounting considering the state of Europe today) everyone involved needs to be ridiculed into never getting onto the internet again.
 
I dunno man, I don't think it takes much skill to imitate idiots :s0140:
Well I am certainly not any good at it, judging by all the coaching I get when it is my turn to play victim. You're supposed to make it hard on the trainees, but not impossible or too outside the realm of the plausible. You have to be the right kind of pretend idiot.
 
These were streets I drove on everyday, I wasn't a bubbleguming tourist.
I have to "guess" you also were not one of the ones who got washed a hundred yards down the river then sat on top of your vehicle waiting for the search and rescue people to come get you back to shore? This is what I was talking about that seemed to ALWAYS be some local who had lived there a good while. For many years they would just get them to safety and all had a good laugh. The authorities finally got tired of it always being someone who should know better and started slapping them with LARGE fines. I had a Sister in Law who pulled this stunt with a brand new little Honda she was so proud of. Financed all on her own. Surprising to me her insurance paid out as "flood damage" and gave her a new car. So that one spread the cost to all of us. She had grown up there so sure as hell should have known better, but was tired after a long shift and did not want to drive to the nearest crossing that had a bridge. Said the "water did not look that deep". The famous line used every damn time. :s0140:
 
I have to "guess" you also were not one of the ones who got washed a hundred yards down the river then sat on top of your vehicle waiting for the search and rescue people to come get you back to shore? This is what I was talking about that seemed to ALWAYS be some local who had lived there a good while. For many years they would just get them to safety and all had a good laugh. The authorities finally got tired of it always being someone who should know better and started slapping them with LARGE fines. I had a Sister in Law who pulled this stunt with a brand new little Honda she was so proud of. Financed all on her own. Surprising to me her insurance paid out as "flood damage" and gave her a new car. So that one spread the cost to all of us. She had grown up there so sure as hell should have known better, but was tired after a long shift and did not want to drive to the nearest crossing that had a bridge. Said the "water did not look that deep". The famous line used every damn time. :s0140:
The decision to proceed isn't done with your a$$ in the drivers seat.

Plenty of scouting is done before ever proceeding. In the case of the streets in Phoenix, simply walking on the sidewalk and making sure nothing looked awry was plenty. Keeping some 18" rubber boots in the Jeep was standard practice for such things as well.

I never just went for it blindly.

As far as river crossings, those are always done with a group. I would never attempt it alone.

This particular Jeep was a '96 XJ with a 4.5" lift on 35" tires, ARB air lockers in Dana 44 axles front & rear, 4:10 gears and a 3.8:1 Atlas transfer case. If I got stuck in that water I would have had to turn the keys over and submit myself to driving a Prius for life.
 

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