May 8, 2008

Cars aren’t boats

Filed under: Uncategorized — jayson luber @ 5:23 am

I wonder if people ever listen. So for as long as I’ve been doing this job and covering flooding I keep putting out that warning, “don’t drive through high water”. Drivers do it anyway and it happened again Wednesday. We had the pictures of the guy who stalled out his car on the ramp from NB I-25 to WB 6th Ave. The car was in the water up to nearly the window with the lights still on and the windshield wipers still going. That was not the only one who tried it in a small car. I counted 5 others doing the same thing and having similar results. Then you gotta love the drivers of the bigger vehicles who blast through the high water shooting a wall of water 20 feet away. Look, I’m not above thinking like a man who thinks he knows better than everybody else. If I had a huge, high wheel based truck and saw high water and if I was alone I would probably do it too. Whenever I drive in bad weather I guess I always go back to my theory that it is better to be 5 minutes late than have to deal with the hassle of fixing a car or going to the hospital. Anyway, happy motoring.

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  1. I agree with you–driving through high water is stupid. However I have found myself in a situation on I-25 (pre-TRex) in which I didn’t know the water was ahead, and I didn’t have an opportunity to bail out. In moments like that why don’t the police come to close down the road, or CDOT post a lighted sign, so that we can bail out before the problem?

    As for those trucks and their wake of waves–that is the worst!

    Comment by Kristin — May 8, 2008 @ 7:49 am

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