So heres the story I heard from what went down with a fool and his chevy truck.
Rains all nasty and floods in s/c Texas last night. Fool goes to rescue friend in flood in his raty mid 80's suburban. Drives thru 2 feet of water, makes it to buddies house. They are off and heading back to the fools house. Coming to the same water crossing, now 3 feet deep(and flowing fast) according to the yardstick found at poss high water spots. Fool hits the gas and plows into 3 feet of water. Stalls truck, truck is lifted off road and held from dropping into the creek by the guardrail.
Friend tries to cross on foot. That doesnt work out, is almost carried away. Fool decides to cut the seatbelts out of his truck. He ties one seat belt to himself, and another length of belt to his friend. Then he ties them both to a 2 gallon gas can as a floatation device.
So they sit, waiting to be rescued. Four hours later, the fire department and the police show up to find to more than average sized morons sitting in a truck tight to each other, and a gas can between them as a life saving device.
With friends like the fool, who really needs rescued here.

I thought I might pass the story along, as it shows me unlike his money, a fool and his friend can not easily be parted....but insist on drowning together.

 

Thanks!!! That was a good laugh!!!

Mark

 

:-x10 :-x24

 

And when they saw them lighting a cigarette ----
they knew right were they WERE - from the flash :-)

 

that's hilarious!! last time it got bad up around here i was riding with a friend trying to take another friend home.. we ended up turning back to get a bigger vehicle and took another coupla hours to let the water run off some more into the fields (cuz nothing stays on the road too long around here, everythings too dry but when it comes faster than the ground can soak it up, just wait a coupla hours and it gets soaked up) so we're in a ford truck (cuz the gmc jimmy cldn't make it) and there's this camaro that's been washed off the road and abandoned out in the middle of the country. it was hilarious!!

.. another of my friends was driving one of those little cars that barely holds two people.. a . uhm,. pontiac ... something.. i can't remember.. got the frog eye headlights and the engines in the back and a turbo is a six banger and they don't make them anymore... anyway, he's taking his g/f home and he gets washed off the road.. that car was completely drowned.. tow truck barely pulled it out the next day cuz he washed off in a ditch that held water and they drug it to the place he was staying and we dedrowned it. it was funny cuz once the electricals dried out and we got the engine cleaned up, and the interior set out on the front lawn to dry, he didn't believe me when i said he needed to drop his gas tank until he saw the gauge and it read 3/4.. he said he was almost empty when he was driving it.. we got it running again though... he sold it later and i'm pretty sure he didn't tell the girl he drowned it but ya know... i still thought that was hilarious too.

 

The suburban in the flood reminded me of the Ford commercial when the chevy truck sank and the Ford guy said "Like a rock" That was pretty dang funny. People should always remember that it doesn't take much running water to ruin your day.

Huey

 

They guy is real hesitant about handing over the pics so I can post em. I keep on him......maybe he'll give em up.

 

Most folks don't realize that the vehicle act like a bottle in water. In their mind the vehicle is too heavy to be pushed off the road by a foot or two of water. But what they don't realize is that since the interior is sealed off, it become bouyant and therefore the weight of the vehicle is irrelavant. Once the traction of the tires is reduced, a vehicle will be pushed off by the pressure of the water.

 

i wldn't have ever thought of it that way had you not said that. i plow through water all the time (when it's around that is) and don't think twice but i don't go running around in areas where it's flowing that quickly or even much over 6 inches deep. it makes perfect sense though.. learn something new everyday! ;-)

 

I cross water all the time, expecially in the last month of this non stop rain crap. If its a foot deep and flowing, I dont worry. If its flowin fast, I dont feel comfortable in more than 6-8 inches or so. Much more depth and it gets hard to tell whats flowing underneath, and coming up next. Got caught up in some barbed wire once. If its standing, a couple feet or so is of no real concern. Its a matter of height.
If you consider muddy water to have a weight of 10 pounds a gallon, it doesnt take much to float a smaller car, a little velocity to that weight, and clearance is the only saving grace.
Took my 4 yr old nephew thru some crossings the other day. He even started in with a few yeehaw!! yells. He was trying to get me to cross stuff several feet deep. It was then that we talked about water being respected and sometimes feared. Maybe over his head a little, but he understood. Whoops, pun.

 

I'm in a water dept. Water weighs 8.34 lb/gallon. 7.48gal/cubic ft. Thats a lot of power.

 

Okay, got the pics of this guys attempt of a life saving device. Sorry it took so long. Check my gallery for the pics.