D4---Flood20150922I have recently been swamped with questions on how deep a vehicle, whether it is four-wheel drive or not, can go thru flooded streets - thanks to recent rains of biblical proportions that have contributed to massive traffic jams because of floods. Having seen photos of those traffic jams in social media, I wonder if those taking the pictures noticed that despite the huge amount of water on the streets, the floods are not really that deep. If they look closely, they would have noticed that in most cases the floods are only up to a child’s knees. My best estimate is the depth is from six to 12 inches, thus making flood crossing very manageable even for the lowest of the lowered “rice rocket” out there.

My point in all of this is in most but not all cases, flooding where the water is usually gutter-deep level, most if not all vehicles can manage to drive thru and avoid creating massive traffic jams.

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