How do you draw that conclusion ? No one else's fault but the driver. My point was that its not always possible to determine the depth of water on the road so caution is your best bet when caught out in flash flooding type weather.Love the comment.... as if its someone else's fault!
The comment on the news paper article...How do you draw that conclusion ? No one else's fault but the driver. My point was that its not always possible to determine the depth of water on the road so caution is your best bet when caught out in flash flooding type weather.
Sorry LostKiwi - old age setting in, thought you were referring to my post ,see what you mean now... It is astonishing why people drive through floods. At this time of year the busy main road outside my house flash floods for a length of about 100m often over half a meter deep but sometimes more. Lost track of the number of times I have had to wade through flood water either to push vehicles or spray with WD- all the while vehicles try to charge through drenching everybody. Over the years several pairs of trousers boots socks (drains back up too) ruined so in the end I gave up and let the emergency services /breakdown deal with this stuff.The comment on the news paper article...
"This happend to me last year in works van and got disciplined for it . sorry to see nothing has been done to stop this happening to others."
No worries... I thought you'd misunderstoodSorry LostKiwi - old age setting in, thought you were referring to my post ,see what you mean now... It is astonishing why people drive through floods. At this time of year the busy main road outside my house flash floods for a length of about 100m often over half a meter deep but sometimes more. Lost track of the number of times I have had to wade through flood water either to push vehicles or spray with WD- all the while vehicles try to charge through drenching everybody. Over the years several pairs of trousers boots socks (drains back up too) ruined so in the end I gave up and let the emergency services /breakdown deal with this stuff.
Loads of roads in Bury were flooded yesterday, including the main A56 Manchester Road which, unfortunately, I had to use in the morning. It was mainly the inside lane so I, as most drivers, moved across to the outside and gently passed the small lake which had formed.
Typically, one or two intellectually challenged people decided to just plough through creating bow waves which would have shamed the Queen Mary. Ah well, their loss when it all goes TU...
Fortunately with advances in ship building the Queen Mary 2 produces little if any bow wave. Was amazed on our recent fjords trip just how little wake there was.
Interesting 'spin' in the Elbe river in Hamburg as we left the other week
I used to love going out in toorrential rain and retreiving flooded cars in my Defender.....
Deepest puddle it went into was just coming over the bonnet... (and it chugged through quite happily).