burst water main

[andycook]

on my lunchtime walk around Dyce, saw a large queue of traffic, and flooded road due to burst water main.
Cars were having to wait and cross on one side, and mounting pavement.
The water was only 3-4 inch deep at that side.

however, I watched a Rav4, freelander, vitara, explorer - also mounted pavement like the cars

so whats the point of these numptys having high clearence vehicles! if they dont even want to get their shiny rims wet!!

[SparX]

The same happenes everytime in rains at the McDonalds in Bedford , the road is very low at this point and close the the water level in the river , this bit floods everytime there is a down pour and you can guarantee there is a queue half a mile long trying to cross this puddle , I always go through at full throttle spraying as much water as possible as I believe that is the most safe & sensible way :-)

On the issue of water , I was driving through wiltshire the other night on unknown roads after heavy rain , evertime i hit standing water it gets thrown forwards and onto my screen blinding me for a second or so. just wanted to know if everyone has this problem ???

[CaptainBeaky]

The same happenes everytime in rains at the McDonalds in Bedford , the road is very low at this point and close the the water level in the river , this bit floods everytime there is a down pour and you can guarantee there is a queue half a mile long trying to cross this puddle , I always go through at full throttle spraying as much water as possible as I believe that is the most safe & sensible way :-)

On the issue of water , I was driving through wiltshire the other night on unknown roads after heavy rain , evertime i hit standing water it gets thrown forwards and onto my screen blinding me for a second or so. just wanted to know if everyone has this problem ???

More a case of the water spraying up, and then driving through the plume, methinks. Especially if you are driving, [ahem] enthusiastically...

[M35A2]

When I was in the Army, I was driving a Leyland Daf DROPS train somewhere near Aldershot. There was a monsoon of rain for days. We were approaching this big flooded stretch of road. These DROPS have massive tyres in a 8X6 set up. I slowed right down, let everything get through, then gave it some stick and hit the water really quick. But as I did so two cars came round the bend, a car and a Discovery behind it. The car driver stopped as a wave of tsunami proportions advanced on his car. As I passed the car, it got hit by the wave completely submerging it. Trouble was, the Discovery driver, not looking at the road, but at the wave, failed to see that the car in front had stopped. BANG. His bull bar didn't look so nice after that.

[andrewlee31]

was in blackpool last week and at the end of the lights, pleasure beach end, there is a big car park seems where all the boy racers, with thier kev'd up nova's go and listen to loud radio interferance.. nicely parked by a puddle about 35 metres long and a good half way up my wheels... all with the windows down talking to the young ladies they had with them....


so i hit it about 40...

3 times!!

and they all went home..

no sense of humour young un's these days!

[Gamedawn]

On the issue of water , I was driving through wiltshire the other night on unknown roads after heavy rain , evertime i hit standing water it gets thrown forwards and onto my screen blinding me for a second or so. just wanted to know if everyone has this problem ???

Yeah, fun isn't it When I was a lad a lot of rally cars had mud flaps in front of the front wheels to stop this problem - looks a bit naff tho

[CaptainBeaky]

Went to a bike rally a few years ago in Hawes. Hughied down with rain on the way up, and by the time we got to the Dales, quite a few (ie most) roads were flooded. It was most entertaining chugging through the floods with water boiling off the cylinders of the GS, passing cars drowned in the rising waters due to water in intakes, or in the case of the many, many stranded Fords, due to a relative humidity above 10%
That was one of the few times my boots let any water in, but they were immersed in water up to the tops, and I proved to my own satisfaction that the safe wading depth of the 1100GS is at least 18", with the bottoms of the panniers in the water...

It was even more fun the next day, when the waters receded to leave acres of gravel washed over the lower-lying roads, and I was following a lunatic Dutchman whose solution to gravel-strewn roads was to stand up and whack the throttle open Of course, I followed suit, reasoning that if he got through, then so would I. The monumental stupidity of this only became apparent when we stopped, and I noticed his bike was wearing serious off-road tyres, compared to my road-biased semi-knobblies

[ja1983]

well, me and the missus went with my mate and his missus to york for a camping trip.. anyway, early morning we decide we need a break from the naggin and go for a potter round the village (to view the fine architecture and facilities of course..) anyway, it had ****ed it down the friday, and had left a few nice bath sized puddles on the road side..

...so i spies this fella walking on with two dog following behind, managed to soak the first dog, bloke didnt seem to notice!

the best one was last year in the snow.. sorry, more like the slush following the snow.. i`d just got the art of drifting the fourtrak round (like a true hero - look out colin mcrae!) on bends, and as i`m tottering along what do i see but a bus stop full of chavs throwing snowballs at cars....

...so i played em at there own game and passed the shelter sideways, quite generously blasting it with freezing cold slush!

[kitesurf_phil]

I moved into a little village with just one pub. First night I walked into the pub the landlord looked over the top of his half-moon glasses and said, "I'm not serving you." When asked why not he just replied that as landlord it was his perogatve.

A few days later all roads into the vilage were flooded and there was said landlord sat in his broken down Jag, with water up to the top of the wheels. He wound his window down to try to flag me down, but I just whooshed through in the girlfriends Austin Gypsy. The bough wave went right in through the car window and soaked him.

[Leodis]

During the summer I was going to Manchester airport traffic was slow due to the motorway being flooded. The car next to me (an escort estate with an rs bonnet and other semi fast ford bits and bobs) was driving with his back passenger windows all the way down. Just the right height for the spray to pour straight through must have gone almost a mile before I managed to get in front of him. I suppose I could have slowed down a bit but wheres the fun in that.