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It's crazy how many videos and pictures I'm seeing of people driving in those flood waters. I get that it's a very flat area but if the water is near your hood

It's crazy how many videos and pictures I'm seeing of people driving in those flood waters. I get that it's a very flat area but if the water is near your hood you're: 1. Deep enough that you can't see obstacles in the water 2. Right on the edge of flooding your intake and destroying your engine (which I suppose won't matter if the water's that high - your car is destroyed anyway) 3. Going to get pushed over by almost _any_ current (3) especially seems extremely dangerous. That much water is going to drain somewhere and it would be easy to accidentally move into flowing water and get sucked along by the current.

briffle 4y ago
8-12 inches of moving water can float most vehicles away.
- mcculley 4y ago
  And what most don't realize is that cars will float and then sink. They will float and lose traction, becoming immobile, then they start taking on water and sink back down, ruined.
TheRealPomax 4y ago
Yeah, but then you remember that this is Florida.
- graderjs 4y ago
  What about the dogs, i mean gators, i mean dogs?
  - stronglikedan 4y ago
    Regarding gators, just get a dog that's slower than you.
dsfyu404ed 4y ago
If this wasn't normal-ish people wouldn't be going out in it. Like don't you think the lazy southerner the white collar internet loves to stereotype would call out of work at the drop of a hat? Floods (usually flash floods or hurricane related floods) in Florida happens many times a year, just not over such a wide area or at this time in the season. To them it's no different than people in Boston driving in 6-8" of snow (to those not aware, driving in 8" of snow in a state that gets snow and has plows implies a 2ft+ storm). The reason this is a 1:1000 event is because it doesn't usually happen in April. It would be like people in Boston commuting in snow in May. Is there a discussion to be had about the role and responsibility of humans in climate change makign these events more frequent? Of course. But that is completely tangential to the point I am trying to make which is that the hand wringing about "omg I can't believe they're going out in that" is just that, hand wringing.
- volkk 4y ago
  completely false. i know someone whose house is in a foot of water and is suffering immensely. not even close to "oh no big deal the water will be gone soon, lets go to the movies"
- kgermino 4y ago
  I would think the opposite. We get floods here all the time too. It’s _because_ we’re used to flooding that I’ve been taught to “stay the hell out of flood water” from a young age. I would have expected Florida to be similar
- anonymouskimmer 4y ago
  > If this wasn't normal-ish people wouldn't be going out in it. You misunderstand human nature. Or at least the nature of sufficient numbers of humans.
bullen 4y ago
The irony is apparently lost on all westerners that the car is what is causing the problem in the first place. You are all sitting in the machine that destroys your own future. Time machine to hell!

briffle 4y ago

8-12 inches of moving water can float most vehicles away.

mcculley 4y ago
And what most don't realize is that cars will float and then sink. They will float and lose traction, becoming immobile, then they start taking on water and sink back down, ruined.

TheRealPomax 4y ago

Yeah, but then you remember that this is Florida.

graderjs 4y ago
What about the dogs, i mean gators, i mean dogs?
- stronglikedan 4y ago
  Regarding gators, just get a dog that's slower than you.

dsfyu404ed 4y ago

If this wasn't normal-ish people wouldn't be going out in it. Like don't you think the lazy southerner the white collar internet loves to stereotype would call out of work at the drop of a hat? Floods (usually flash floods or hurricane related floods) in Florida happens many times a year, just not over such a wide area or at this time in the season. To them it's no different than people in Boston driving in 6-8" of snow (to those not aware, driving in 8" of snow in a state that gets snow and has plows implies a 2ft+ storm). The reason this is a 1:1000 event is because it doesn't usually happen in April. It would be like people in Boston commuting in snow in May. Is there a discussion to be had about the role and responsibility of humans in climate change makign these events more frequent? Of course. But that is completely tangential to the point I am trying to make which is that the hand wringing about "omg I can't believe they're going out in that" is just that, hand wringing.

volkk 4y ago
completely false. i know someone whose house is in a foot of water and is suffering immensely. not even close to "oh no big deal the water will be gone soon, lets go to the movies"
kgermino 4y ago
I would think the opposite. We get floods here all the time too. It’s _because_ we’re used to flooding that I’ve been taught to “stay the hell out of flood water” from a young age. I would have expected Florida to be similar
anonymouskimmer 4y ago
> If this wasn't normal-ish people wouldn't be going out in it. You misunderstand human nature. Or at least the nature of sufficient numbers of humans.

bullen 4y ago

The irony is apparently lost on all westerners that the car is what is causing the problem in the first place. You are all sitting in the machine that destroys your own future. Time machine to hell!