Nearly lost my Rover today!!!!
 

Yes, it came very close:-

about 11am this morning we had a flash flood that flooded our property within minutes. My wife tried to rescue our Suzuki Splash parked at the other side of the BMW in the photo. It started even though there was about 4 inch of water in the front footwells. However, she put it into reverse but there was no drive so she had to abandon it.

My 75 was parked at this side of the BMW, luckily facing the other way. The rear doors were submerged, and the water level was at the front doors when I jumped in, there was a bit of a bow wave that splashed in when I shut the door, but she started up and drove out. I checked the rear carpets and all was well. I opened the boot (which was well under) and not too bad at all. Just felt a bit damp right down under the spare tire. I dried it with a towel and all is well.

When the water level went down, I lifted the bonnet of the Suzuki and removed debris etc and tried starting it. It started but still has no drive, clutch most likely drowned. It also has no power steering.

If my Rover hadn't driven out it would have been written off for sure. The insurance company says the Suzuki could be a write off as it's a 14 plate.

The front end of the Silver Audi in the pic nearly set on fire when he tried to drive it out. The rear footwells were full of water and drowned the wiring under the seats!

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Some water entered our front door, so we had to pull up the carpet and throw it out, wash the floor with a bleach solution and start drying it out with our dehumidifier. VERY lucky with the house too. It could have been FAR FAR worse, I mean I could have lost my Rover!!!!

Sorry see such horrific flooding. Hope it doesn't cause to much damage and disruption. Good save on the 75 though.

All the water had gone within the hour! never seen anything like it

it reached that level within 10 mins MAX

Yes it must have been.

The green car driving through it??? I wouldn't have tried for sure. Another car attempted it and it died in the middle and had to be towed out.

My insurance company said, had you been driving through it, they wouldn't pay out. As it was parked the probably will, wasn't to keen to hear probably!!!

Horrible, hopefully you can get something sorted out soon.

must have been quite a panic seeing the water. Are you in a flood plain area?

amazes me what people will drive through and some do it at silly speeds.

macafee2

Apparently I am, I wasn't aware of it until today.

I live halfway up a hill so luckily don’t have this sort of problem, however as the bottom of the hill is prone to flooding my household policy gets loaded as it the same postcode area.

The councils throughout the country have to take some responsibility in my opinion too, as they do not keep our drains clear enough, how many times in a year do you see the drains being sucked out of all the winter debris, in our street we have to ask them other wise you would never see them.

So sorry to hear about your flash flood it must be horrible, hopefully the insurance will sort you out.

The gullies in the main street of the village I live in are regularly choked with the mud coming from the building sites at either end of the village.

I've lost count of the times it has been necessary to telephone the local council(s) to have them cleaned out.

The joys of living on the border of two unitary councils.......believe it or not, one side of the main road is Newcastle Upon Tyne, the other is North Tyneside

It's a nightmare when something like this happens though, but at least you survived relatively unscathed ;)

Brian :D