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Flooding From Yesterday
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paktinat
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I-71, near 5th Ave.
via Reddita couple more videos:
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http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/multimedia/video/video.html?videoUrl=/sites/dispatch/videos/2011/07/24/stuck-in-the-flood.xmlPosted 10 months ago # -
DavidF
Elysium Fields
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paktinat said:
I-71, near 5th Ave.
via Reddita couple more videos:
[youtube]6FMj6Gm0E8w[/youtube]
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http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/multimedia/video/video.html?videoUrl=/sites/dispatch/videos/2011/07/24/stuck-in-the-flood.xmlDrove through that when it was about 5 inches deep. Hit it at about 45 mph. Quite the interesting experience.
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2thDoc
Downtown
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I always find it comical for those who intentionally drive into standing water like that. It's not only dangerous but if your car doesn't make it you can stall out and flood the engine and interior. During a storm a few years back I got to push a couple of really "smart" drivers who thought their civics would make it through knee high water. Got a nice viral rash from ankle to mid thigh. I bet that silver coupe in the original poster's video on the left was a flood loss.
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tolemac5050
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and the idiot with no lights on...
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Twixlen
Westgate, Columbus
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I am amazed by people. Either they are so unaware of their surroundings (while driving - scary), that they don't see the folks on the side of the road in flooded cars, up to their crotch in water, or they DO and still think they "got this."
2thDoc - I immediately wondered about that water. Sure, it's rainwater, but it's far from clean. When I lived in Raleigh, the downtown streets around my building flooded almost every time it rained, forcing me to walk thru mid-shin deep water to get to my car. Never good.
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Twixlen
Westgate, Columbus
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alexs
Limestone bluffs of the Scioto
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If an engine sucks in water then usually it'll break a piston, wrist pin, or connecting rod when it tries to compress the water.
Transmissions and differentials usually have vent holes on top and when the case hits cold water and the air inside it contracts, it will suck water in through the vents.
Brakes will fade after being underwater, but that goes away quickly with a bit of driving, just expect the effect.
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murfmurphy
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2thDoc said:
Twixlen--It was on campus between High and Indianola. Storm drain in the alley got clogged with all sorts of whatever and backed up. Not the brightest choice on my part, but I thought I would help.I had a similar experience back in my hometown. A friend was coming over just after a pretty big storm. It was early fall, and the wind had blown a bunch of leaves out of the trees, thus clogging the storm sewers. He didn't see the water in the street, and stalled out his '96 Camaro. We had to go out and push him car back out of the mess, luckily with no rashes to speak of. While we were getting ready to push his car back out of the water another Camaro, a newer model, drove right through the mess like there was hardly anything there.
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alexs
Limestone bluffs of the Scioto
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My Outback has a big airbox with drain holes inside the front fender, so it could suck in a gallon or maybe two through the intake at the top of the grille before the water got up to the air filter. But I suppose it's primarily for settling out rainwater.
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Likes Old Houses
Harrison West
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I had left a bucket in our back yard yesterday afternon to dry out, and emptied 3.75" of water out of it last night.
Walker said:
Wow, crazy photos & video. It was really coming down hard but the standing water in our street didn't seem to get more than an inch or two at a time. Drains pretty easily there.Guess I should have checked out the basement though. :P
My basement was a little wet on the one side that is always wet when it rains. I am sure the dehumidifier will have it dried up by tonight.
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manticore33
Delaware, OH
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I remember pushing a CPD officer out of the water when it flooded like that on High Street and 13th. Remember your Oregon Trail days, fording the river very is a bad, bad idea.
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