Why would those idiots drive into moving water?

I'm guilty of saying that watching people on top of their cars on the news.

This week by idiots, I mean DH and I.

Our "why"? Because its fast, powerful, and invisible until it's too late.

Once again, were getting more rain than we can handle and have had flash flood warnings all week long.

The night before last we finished working on floors around 11 right as it was starting to storm. We waited about 20 minutes and headed home when we realized it was going to keep raining.

I was in my SUV and DH was right behind me in a Veloster (terrifying)

We started out and about 5 miles out of town we went over a hill and around a curve and as the nose of my car rounded the turn water rushed over my hood and turned my car towards the left ditch. I was able to scream holy crap multiple times and somehow managed to get to the other side while panicking trying to find DH and eventually seeing his headlights in the water. He made it to the other side and we sat on the opposite side stopping traffic and ready to help anyone who got stuck coming the same way until someone stopped the traffic there too.

We continued on and talked the rest of the way home so we could kind of watch together. There were so many critters on the road, likely to g to escape the water and after another 20 miles or so we were driving down a straight highway and a rush of water came over the road and swept both of us all the way to the left, turned me around completely, pushed him past me and I was able to somehow climb out if the ditch.

The cars seem ok now that they're dried out, the cover on the bottom of mine was ripped off and I had mud and grass stuck in my sunroof.

We've driven these roads for years and years with no problems and these areas are not areas that usually flood, the weather has just been way too much.

If you're driving and hear warnings, please listen to them. That was the second time ever that I've had to stop and seriously allow myself to calm before I could drive.

Attaching some photos of what were dealing with right now, the pic of the water rushing over the side of the road (2nd to last, see the mailbox?) is a huge hill, the water is probably 10 foot there, and the "lake' is usually a field. The bridge usually has a road under it.

The bucket is the amount of rain collected in the one storm.