Comments on: "You sound like my mom..... My camera was safely cradled on the dashboard, with both hands on the steering wheel."

"You sound like my mom..... My camera was safely cradled on the dashboard, with both hands on the steering wheel."

defenestration — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:03:38 -0800

My drive to work in the rainstorm 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Footage of a drive through the June 7 2008 rainstorm on the North portion of Tung Chung Road on Lantau Island in Hong Kong. On that day Hong Kong experienced 307mm of rain and 130mm the previous day. That is more than 17 inches of rain in 48 hours.

By: anazgnos

anazgnos — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:07:27 -0800

How did he pass the bus with the light pole knocked over on it?

By: turgid dahlia

turgid dahlia — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:10:01 -0800

Seems to me that unless your job is testing out Penthouse Pets and single-malts, it isn't worth going through this for.

By: fshgrl

fshgrl — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:14:03 -0800

There is a fundamental glitch in the human brain that incorrectly convinces people it is totally a good idea to drive through moving water of unknown depth. anazgnos- He went under the lightpole, he says it in the comments.

By: netbros

netbros — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:27:43 -0800

Death Wish 3: The Drowning

By: nola

nola — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:31:01 -0800

Well that looks really foolhardy.

By: birdherder

birdherder — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:36:26 -0800

Clearly the "don't drive through flooded roads" PSA campaign in Hong Kong wasn't effective.

By: Decimask

Decimask — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:42:42 -0800

There's a joke about French Canadian drivers in here somewhere.

By: weapons-grade pandemonium

weapons-grade pandemonium — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:05:19 -0800

The guy is an airline pilot. You think his driving is bad. Maudit tabarouette.

By: maudlin

maudlin — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:16:41 -0800

Minouche!

By: uni verse

uni verse — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:34:32 -0800

I think people sometimes expecting great praise for their devotion to the job - in fact it can earn them great criticism for risking so much.

By: schwa

schwa — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:36:04 -0800

"Not so crazy, I was going nice and slow. Ha ha!" Nope. Still crazy.

By: HuronBob

HuronBob — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:47:44 -0800

this guy was either driving a tank or is an idiot...

By: flug

flug — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:10:52 -0800

For some reason, those videos reminded me of this . . . a driving video as well, but in all other ways quite a lot different than the above videos.

By: happyroach

happyroach — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:44:40 -0800

There is a fundamental glitch in the human brain that incorrectly convinces people it is totally a good idea to drive through moving water of unknown depth. Especially if they are driving an SUV or jacked-up truck. This reminds me of the heavy rains Santa Barbara had a few years back- the drains in the underpasses quickly overloaded, and the underpasses started filling up. The thing is, people kept driving into the underpasses, confident that their 4X4s would do just fine...until the water went over the engine block. In the end the water was over 12 feet deep, and nearly all the trucks and SUVs were completely submerged.

By: tomble

tomble — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:05:28 -0800

I wouldn't have been surprised if the comment on the video was "So, here are a series of videos we found on a camera belonging to the deceased occupant of a car washed into floodwaters".

By: freshwater_pr0n

freshwater_pr0n — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:10:08 -0800

Dude. Turn around! Don't drown!

By: zardoz

zardoz — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:11:59 -0800

How did he pass the bus with the light pole knocked over on it? Cheat code.

By: BlackLeotardFront

BlackLeotardFront — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:22:18 -0800

Eeeaaah....... I would have been more comfortable watching those if he'd included a shot of whatever tank he's driving.

By: pinky

pinky — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:48:22 -0800

He was driving a Subaru Forester.

By: Space Kitty

Space Kitty — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:09:57 -0800

Hope the people at the retirement home are ok. /ponyo

By: burnmp3s

burnmp3s — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:06:58 -0800

There is a fundamental glitch in the human brain that incorrectly convinces people it is totally a good idea to drive through moving water of unknown depth. Depth doesn't even matter if the water is moving fast enough. In a flash flood, things start getting bad at around six inches of water, and a foot or two is enough to float pretty much any car or truck.

By: vorfeed

vorfeed — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:10:19 -0800

Eeeek. Having grown up in the desert, I'm very much afraid of floodwaters... you couldn't pay me to try to cross that. Guess he hasn't heard that ditches are deadly!

By: mattoxic

mattoxic — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:14:14 -0800

this guy ~~was either~~ is driving a ~~tank or~~ hummer and is an idiot...

By: splice

splice — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:52:32 -0800

There's a joke about French Canadian drivers in here somewhere. Should've know you were Ontarian. Sti d'tête carrée de cul, tu peux aller te faire mettre.

By: robtf3

robtf3 — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:03:35 -0800

Burnmp3's has it. It doesn't take deep water to make driving through it dangerous. I own a Jeep Wrangler and there is no way I would have driven through that. Not even if I had a 6" lift and big ass mud tires. That water was moving very fast.

By: awfurby

awfurby — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:32:02 -0800

I remember that storm - there were a couple of villages on Lantau that were cut off by road for days. Even on Hong Kong island there were some slips. The ground floor of my apartment building was coated in 4 inches of mud.

By: Partial Panel

Partial Panel — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:43:53 -0800

In these conditions I would drive so fast that the water would evaporate beneath my tires. Just saying . . ..

By: Cranberry

Cranberry — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:37:03 -0800

I would drive faster than Partial Panel toward home where I would stay until all that water receded.

By: zippy

zippy — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:36:40 -0800

Part 1, OK, the water's fast, but maybe he can still see the yellow line and it's not deep. I can't tell because of the video quality. ... Part 3. No, no, no. No way, no how. At least there's a guard rail to catch him if he goes sideways.

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 05:33:09 -0800

There's a joke about French Canadian drivers in here somewhere. Onward!

By: hawthorne

hawthorne — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 05:46:29 -0800

When I heard the voice and it was a bloke, I was less than astonished.

By: longdaysjourney

longdaysjourney — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 06:12:39 -0800

A quote from the poster: "It was only rain falling, hardly life threatening stuff." Yeah. Not surprised this is a guy, at all. He was driving a Subaru Forester AWD, and I'm trying to decide whether Subaru would be proud or horrified by this vid.

By: Diablevert

Diablevert — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 06:17:49 -0800

Small thread derail: I'd like to thank splice for furthering my education in Quebec French profanity. My rusty French gave me the gist of your remark, but filling in the detail has been most amusing.

By: swell

swell — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 08:16:10 -0800

Sti head of square ass, you can go to save. Sometimes things make no sense but I like them anyway.

By: Brockles

Brockles — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 08:28:13 -0800

It amuses me that thinking having both hands on the wheel is going to make any difference whatsoever to his ability to avert disaster. It doesn't really matter how good your ability to steer is when your wheels aren't touching the ground, or when the ground collapses because the water flow underneath has undermined it (as is clearly already happening in several places just on the first two videos. No job can justify that risk, and while the experience must have been awesome and 'once in a lifetime' it's probably only the 'once' because you tend to die from that sort of thing...

By: birdwatcher

birdwatcher — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:50:08 -0800

It's interesting to note that he is always traveling downhill and downstream in the videos. I'd like to see the videos of the drive back uphill when he realizes he's not going to make it into work that day.

By: MrVisible

MrVisible — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:52:37 -0800

In Arizona, we've got gullies and arroyos which are bone-dry 99% of the time, and catastrophically flooded the other one percent. Obviously, we build roads across them rather than over them, because hey, 99% uptime is good for just about anything, plus bridges are expensive. When it rains, there are signs around these crossings that say not to cross if there's water in them. Of course, people ignored them frequently, resulting in the local rescue services having to come and retrieve another individual, or family, from the top of their vehicle. Which was, of course, surrounded by the raging waters of a flash flood. This happened with enough frequency that they passed a law allowing the state to charge the drivers for the cost of their rescue. It's called the Stupid Motorist Law.

By: five fresh fish

five fresh fish — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 10:27:47 -0800

The guy was driving a Subaru Forester. He might as well have been driving a tank. I could see doing the same thing in my Forester. Especially 'cause mines almost certainly 100x more bagged-out than his was (after that stunt, I'm sure his back end is beat to complete shit.)

By: five fresh fish

five fresh fish — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 10:29:38 -0800

Mind, that's the sort of hell-bent attitude that keeps me from buying myself a macho truck. I'd just end up regretting some stupid thing I'd done in it. Provided I lived to regret it.

By: The Ultimate Olympian

The Ultimate Olympian — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:16:58 -0800

I've been to Hong Kong once in my life for a mere 24 hours. As chance would have it, I was there the day he filmed this.

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"You sound like my mom..... My camera was safely cradled on the dashboard, with both hands on the steering wheel."