El Niño storms California - Why are people driving into floods?
By Michelle
@infatuatedbby (94909)
United States
January 6, 2016 12:09am CST
It is a rainy situation this entire week due to El Niño Storm. I have been receiving flood advisory notifications on my phone throughout the day. Along with the notifications, I have friends posting on Facebook and Instagram to avoid certain areas due to flooding, photos of flooding where they are, or repost from the news/other people's encounter of El Niño.
Basically, it's a messy situation as we Californians aren't used to this wet weather.
However, my question is - Why are people driving INTO floods? Are they trying to have an insurance claim? Owe money on their vehicle and this is an opportunity to get out? To be seen on the news?
You could see obvious videos throughout the news of people literally driving their cars INTO the flood and then they obviously get stuck. I understand if your car was parked in a parking structure, side walk and you had no absolute choice but to have your car flood. But, people see how deep the water is and do not u-turn but proceed to go forward. If you had a Hummer, Jeep, Truck, SUV or something ~ understandable but regular coupes, sedans or even a Mini Copper .. why!?
How is the weather where you currently live??
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6 responses
@mommaj (23112)
• United States
6 Jan 16
Wow that's insane! I live in Florida now and even here you never drive into water for several reasons. First your vehicle could be swept away, second their may be a hole in the road that the vehicle falls into and third your vehicle might flood. So just wow to these idiots that go through water. If you can't see bottom you don't chance it. Good topic.
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@infatuatedbby (94909)
• United States
6 Jan 16
Yes! I can clearly understand if you didn't have a choice as your car was parked in an area that flooded. By the time , you got out - you couldn't do anything. But I was watching videos all over the news, Facebook in nearby areas (where I typically go also) being flooded. Cars were just going INTO the flood,it was so obvious you cannot drive pass the flood! Cars are not a submarine, lol.
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Maybe they thought they had those antique cars that floated. 
@infatuatedbby (94909)
• United States
7 Jan 16
Me too! If it's going to storm like this now a days, I'm going to need rain boots!
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@infatuatedbby (94909)
• United States
6 Jan 16
Sunny "Rainy" Diego today
I tried to avoid driving today, but had to go to a couple of appointments (& that required me to go on the freeway). I saw tons of manic drivers!
There are tons of floods throughout, even areas I typically visit on a regular basics (which I am happy I didn't today) I saw all sorts of video clips from the news, my friends shared posts of cars driving into floods! I don't understand why. It is obviously clear that their car will not make it.. they drive forward a little and end up just being stuck! Why people. 
I tried to avoid driving today, but had to go to a couple of appointments (& that required me to go on the freeway). I saw tons of manic drivers!
There are tons of floods throughout, even areas I typically visit on a regular basics (which I am happy I didn't today) I saw all sorts of video clips from the news, my friends shared posts of cars driving into floods! I don't understand why. It is obviously clear that their car will not make it.. they drive forward a little and end up just being stuck! Why people. 1 person likes this
@infatuatedbby (94909)
• United States
6 Jan 16
Streets were flooding, many homes are fine.
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@infatuatedbby (94909)
• United States
6 Jan 16
The videos I was seeing, people were standing telling people to u-turn but people just kept going. I think it's because some may not know common sense like the car cannot make it through high water literally half as tall as the car.
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