My neighborhood flooded - Flex is dead, Audi is wounded, C5Z and 986 S survived.

My neighborhood got caught in a huge flash flood last night right as I got home from trading Jeff a bottle of scotch for his Range Rover. The flood killed the Flex (bent rods? It sucked in water) but not the Rover. The Audi is also flooded, though it wasn't running. Now it has cat codes and water in the exhaust. Garage was high enough up to stay dry less a little water on the floor. Corvette and Boxster are perfectly safe.

Many of my neighbors have flooded garages and homes. It's been a tough night.

Yeesh.  Hope insurance isn't too hard to fight with over the Flex.  Good luck with the Audi.

Well, nature took care of you hating the flex

Glad to see house, family, Porsche and Vette are safe 

agree with Patrick.
 

Good riddance of Flex. Car Gods have read all your hatred of that car on this forum, and made the choice to rid you of that POS.
 

Hallelujah! Thank them! 

Ouch, floods are always such a crazy worry. Glad the important things are okay.

Yikes, that’s awful! Glad you and you’re family are okay!

You hated the Flex, and we all hated the Audi, nature solved it.

How is your house?

Man.  The $h-t will just not stop in the Pac. NW.  

In reply to CyberEric :

A little bit of water in the crawl space, but should be all fine.

Jeeze man, that sucks. I'm sorry.

Holy crap man, sorry to hear it.

I'm glad it wasn't worse. West coast is dealing with enough.

I feel I need to look for a silver lining here- Did it rain on any of the forest fires out there?

I guess I'm the only one sad about the dead ford. Flash floods can be crazy. Stay safe. Good luck with the insurance. 

That sucks glad it wasn't worse.  How much warning did you get?

Well, you really wanted to get rid of the Flex anyways.  Don't be surprised if the Audi gets totalled too, the value of it is really low and parts are really expensive.

Glad to hear you're ok and the cars you like are fine

I hope it works out.

To me, it would probably be easier to deal with the Flex ownership than deal with the insurance company on two claims at the same time (maybe 3 claims with house issues too.) 

I lost a car to a flash flood in Phoenix.  Insurance was fairly easy to deal with, many cars were lost and they were not fighting.  They had the shop pull the intake and if there was any water or signs of water, it was an instant total.  They do not want to deal with ongoing claims anytime something goes wrong with electrical or mechanical that could go back toa warranty claim on the repair.  They did the same thing with my stolen truck when it was recovered.  If the motor blew later, it could be claimed it was from damage from joyride (or in my case, take to Mexico, modified and used for human smuggling).

Glad you and the family are safe.  Sucks about the vehicles but they can be replaced.  Side note - challenge flex for 2021?

This sucks. I hope dealing with the insurance compaines is as painless as possible. 

I lost my Galant VR4 to a flood while I was deployed. I had just sunk nearly 10k into 

I hope things workout for you. 

That really sucks, but it could have been much worse.  Glad the important stuff is OK. 

Glad to hear you guys are all safe, sorry to hear about the Flex and the Audi. Hope everything goes smoothly through insurance, and that you're whole soon.

Streetwiseguy said:

I feel I need to look for a silver lining here- Did it rain on any of the forest fires out there?

 

Yes.

84FSP said:

Glad you and the family are safe.  Sucks about the vehicles but they can be replaced.  Side note - challenge flex for 2021?

Modern SHOGUN? Put the 3.5L TT EcoBoost in the ass of a Fiesta?

Crap. Is that sort of thing at all common in the PNW? I think of Washington as having drainage all worked out.

Glad everybody's okay,