Lotsa Water!!!!!!!!

[junglestylz]

I was driving up to a pool tournament last night up in north-east Las Vegas right around 4:00 in the afternoon, and came across the damndest thing. A F@CKING FIRE TRUCK FLOATING DOWN THE STREET!!! It was one of the most amazing things that I have ever seen in my entire life.

http://www.klas-tv.com/

 

[crupdawg]

i read about that! something like 2 inches of rain fell in 20 mins, right? thats insane

 

[junglestylz]

2.93 actually. It was definately nuts!. They say that we are supposed to get more rain the next 2 days. I have to drive like a human again.

 

[Tom]

Wow thats crazy, I'm sure LV can use all the rain they can get. I was at Lake Mead several months ago and the water level was terribly low.

 

[junglestylz]

Nah, The lake isn't that low. It's only THIRTY FEET below average. I thought that they were joking when they put up signs in the middle of the desert that say watch for flash floods. It is definately horrible timing. My friend Chris just dropped his 98 M3.

 

[Bear6360]

A frickin' firetruck!?!

Good lord. You would think more than 3" of rain would do that. ....and why weren't you floating away if a firetruck was? Were you in a tank or something?

 

[junglestylz]

Most of the water was diverted straight down Gowan St.. Traffic was completely stopped about a block and a hlf off from the main flood stretch. The said that the winds were only 9 MPH under hurricane standards, The hail was embedding itself in the side of the stucco on houses, the water was four to five feet deep, and moving up to forty miles an hour, and the majority of vehicle damage was done to dumb bastards that thought their four wheel drive would make it through.

 

[epj3]

Wow thats pretty bad. This year was one of the first years we were not well below average in rainfall. It rained literally 5 days every week during the spring so our ground was nice and soft -- so the heavy rains in the summer didnt flood.

 

[Zatarra]

WoooWWWW Same thing here in Mexico!!

take a look on this: http://www.reforma.com in the middle of Mexico City!

 

[epj3]

WoooWWWW Same thing here in Mexico!!

take a look on this: http://www.reforma.com in the middle of Mexico City!

I cant read spanish, how bad is the flooding there??

 

[Zatarra]

Don´t worry about the languaje, just take a look at the pics... But now that you mentioned in this past days it´s been also with lots of water!

 

[Bear6360]

I rarely ride my motorcycle in to work anymore. It always rains....and gettin' stuck in the rain on a bike sucks.

 

[junglestylz]

There was a couple of people that were out on their bikes when the flood hit. The ones that got hit the hardest are the homeless that stay in the drainage pipes. They go in there to stay dry and then BAM! 400,000 gallons of water comes barreling down the ditch faster than the speed limit.

 

[ILuvBMW]

Wow! Thats amazing that a fire truck actually floated. That's sad about the homeless people

 

[Bear6360]

Thinking about it makes me have to pee.

 

[ooo000HITMAN000ooo]

yeah i remeber when it flooded in scottsdale because we lived up on the side of a mountain on our way down there would be up to 1.5 feet o water in each lil dippy hill thing.....

It is a hell of alot of fun if your driving a suv

 

[junglestylz]

SUV's were useless in this sh!t. I don't believe that the firetrucks tanks were full. That still one big f@ckin' pool toy.

 

[ooo000HITMAN000ooo]

im not talking about in 4 feet deep water

and if you keep your revs up you can glide through some water about 7inches deep

i have only been in one flood and it was in corpus (tx) on the island the water was 2 feet deep... it was scary

 

[Kirby]

I rarely ride my motorcycle in to work anymore. It always rains....and gettin' stuck in the rain on a bike sucks.

Bear -
I got caught in those storms we had last Saturday. Riding from New Holland back to Reading on 625, lightning struck in a field about 300 yards away.... and I'm on the bike...

 

[Bear6360]

Bear -
I got caught in those storms we had last Saturday. Riding from New Holland back to Reading on 625, lightning struck in a field about 300 yards away.... and I'm on the bike...

What kind of bike? Mine's faster than lightning! I'm exaggerating...but it IS faster than almost any car on the road.

One more quick note for my biker buddy...if you have a full face helmet, use the Meguiar's plastic cleaner/polish on the visor. I used some on mine the other day, and it is crystal clear!