No photos. just a story or two. I live in South Florida where the weather can change quite a bit.
Story #1- I took my daily Ebike ( Converted "04 Gary Fisher) ride from the suburbs (11 miles) into downtown Ft. Lauderdale for lunch at a waterfront tavern.
I took my usual carefully planned route to avoid traffic and the road was dry all the way. While at lunch it rained and dropped 6" of rain in a couple hours (that's a lot!). I had an 11 mile ride home and many of the streets were under 6" of water in places. No problem really. But then I made a mistake. I didn't have a plan B route for this so I just went back the way I came. There is one spot that sometimes collects 6" of water. I didn't think anything of it. Now the cross street leading into it was under 6" of water, still didn't realize what that meant for the low spot. Keeping to the crown of the road where it's shallow I made my turn. The 6" on the higher road, became another 6" on the lower street, and then another 6" added on for the usual low spot. I'm looking at 18" of water, and if I turn around I will leave the crown of the road and it will be another foot deeper! So feet up and throttle through with the motor submerged, and everything else under water too. I'd just had the motor apart and applied new gaskets and sealer. When I tore it down again the next day everything was dry inside. I adjusted my route to avoid this area even when dry. So I can get home without any problems next time. At 71yo picking up the 65# Ebike and carrying it across wasn't an option, my XC bike yes.
Story #2- The next time.
The next time a friend from out of town had an appointment to see his lawyer, and needed my guidance for parking and navigation in the business district. This time it had rained 22" in 4 hours ( I believe that's a new all time record possibly including hurricanes). The whole city was under a foot of water. Traffic signals were out, rush hour traffic wad gridlocked, disabled cars everywhere. Pubs and restaurants were closed because the staff couldn't get to work, many of them had water inside, so sitting it out wasn't an option. The lawyer said water was 4' deep in the street in front of her (probably waterfront ha ha) home. Fortunately my friend was driving an SUV so up to a foot of water was tolerable, as long as you knew to avoid any low spots. We took my new bicycle route which avoided all the gridlocked intersections. Local knowledge allowed me to guide him through a couple median jumps ( kind of tricky knowing where to do this when the whole area is submerged). My experience with the low spots allowed me to steer him away from any deeper areas and we got out of town safely.
