Thread: Floods up the east coast

Originally Posted by Numpty's Missus

He was breathing pretty hard towards the end...windscreen was pretty fogged up.
I think he's pretty lucky. Who knows whats under water like that...could have been a bloody great hole in the road that would have swallowed him up

It was pretty stupid to drive though really....but then we all do stupid things sometimes

PS...we had our 180B floating like that in floodwater once With us all inside...daddy why is there water coming in the car

Land rover tell you that if you are going into water more than 2.5- 3 foot than open the doors to fill the car with water to let it sink and therefore keeping traction with the floor and stop you floating

before he started the crossing he new the depth was at least 1.6 meters in depth which anyone would realise would go close to being bonnet covering so he was foolish to attempt it from the beginnning.

He was lucky as to depth in getting across

He was lucky as to not being side pushed by the flowing water

By him crossing it may have encouraged someone else to do same less well equipped on the basis of he made it so could l

He potentially could have hit something submerged under the water floated there by the water like a tree

Unless there was something dire emergency to get to on the other side of that crossing he was overall being rather reckless foolhardy and stupid

Not the smartest thing to do. With water half way up the wind screen It's a wonder it did not float away.

And what about others that might try as well? If it was life or death it might be understandable but in this case he should have not trusted the side markers.

And as others have said, what about anything in the water, logs etc, let alone a washed out roadway.

Originally Posted by cartm58

before he started the crossing he new the depth was at least 1.6 meters in depth which anyone would realise would go close to being bonnet covering so he was foolish to attempt it from the

No, he definitely said "point six of a metre" (0.6m)

Ron

Originally Posted by barryj

Not the smartest thing to do. With water half way up the wind screen It's a wonder it did not float away.

And what about others that might try as well? If it was life or death it might be understandable but in this case he should have not trusted the side markers.

And as others have said, what about anything in the water, logs etc, let alone a washed out roadway.

Not that I would have gone there, but

Other than the depth I don't think there were too many problems, there didn't appear to be any flow. It looked as if it was low lying ground that was inundated by rising water, not a creek/river channel.

I would think the worse case scenario was a flooded car and a wet walk to higher ground.


Martyn

Made the TEN news at five today... with a bit of editing....

Kinda feel a bit sorry for him, gonna be up for a big drain on his wallet...

and no I wouldn't have done it, all the stories of souls being washed away to their death, in this disaster around Newcastle and before.

My mum reported in from god knows where (normally she's at Chittaway Bay) - no power and not much else.... holed up at higher and drier friends place...

GQ

Very lucky there wasnt much of a current flowing,he was sailing real close to the wind!!!
That gutlux will be stuffed,2 mins submarining isnt good at all.
Sounded pretty rough towards the end of the crossing.
Andrew

Originally Posted by Reads90

Land rover tell you that if you are going into water more than 2.5- 3 foot than open the doors to fill the car with water to let it sink and therefore keeping traction with the floor and stop you floating

yeah they do but theres no real need to, theres enough leaks in the body work to take care of it automatically...