Flood? What Flood? Bring it on!

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it's raining heavily in the Philippines again and as usual floods are not uncommon our drainage system isn't all that great and floods can stay for a couple of hours before subsiding I was in my volks stuck in traffic while all the other modern cars in front of me where hesitating to ford the mini river in Espana Boulevard Espana is notorious for flooding the only ones brave enough to cross it were the jeepneys and suvs and pickups i remembered back when i was younger when my dad crossed a stream about as deep as the one in front of me and i knew my bug could take it so i grit my teeth and told myself i'd kick myself in the head if i get stuck in the floodwater i revved my engine and dove right into the flood water spraying it at all sides the trick when crossing a flood is to keep revving your engine until you clear it so that water does not enter your tail pipe and drown your engine (oh and you have to make sure that your air intake is situated high up above your engine so that it does not suck in water it seemed like an eternity crossing that 3 blocks with my engine on second gear but i finally cleared it and looked back to see all the souped up hondas and other mini cars still stuck way behind me this volks may be ugly but it'll get the job done hah! and good thing i didn't listen to all the other people who kept telling me to lower my beetle to the ground. my ground clearance is about 6 inches so what may seem ugly to others is in fact very functional for me boop boop be doo wah hope you learned something or maybe you have a better technique