We were driving home to Tehachapi from San Diego from my grandmother's funeral and were in Mojave when this happened. We stayed in traffic for a while, then made a U-turn and went to Rosamond to try and take Tehachapi Willow Springs Road. Talked to a few folks at a gas station, and decided it would be safer to just get a hotel and wait it out. All the hotels in Lancaster/Palmdale and the surrounding area were filled, so we ended up having to drive to LA to find a hotel. Definitely an emotional roller coaster of a week. I just thank the Lord we didn't get there sooner and get stuck in that mud.
I’m very familiar with this highway 58 between Mojave’s and tehachapi, ca. I’ve been reading a lot of these comments and just for your information: 1) there’s no way to drive up the hill in a hummer, truck, suv, etc because there’s a drop on the other side of that ledge 2) the edge or hill is sopping in water that given any type of vehicle and attempting to go up will get stuck in thick clay mud and if you were to make it, you’d be dropping down into a small canyon or steep hill, no flat out after that. 3) during this rainy time, there was construction that only allowed for a one lane and driving 45 mph. 4) I believe that due to the heavy rain, there were also mud slides either before and after the filming of this vid, that trapped a significant amount of vehicles and made it impossible to drive out. These vehicles were stuck in place for hours and hours. 5) I was one of the few vehicles that made it out of that canyon part of hwy 58 before the rains really came down. When I got to Victorville, ca, I had heard that many vehicles’ engines had flooded as parts of the hwy were deeper than others parts. I can’t imagine having to stay in one place for hours at a time and hoping that the rains don’t drop a deluge. Remember, you’re going up in elevation so I’m sure the vehicles down the hwy were in even more in danger. It was a dangerous day. Thanks for the vid. It gave me a different perspective from a higher vantage point. I can only imagine what that vehicle in the front must have been feeling.
I recognize this because I was stuck on this same freeway all night. Over a hundred vehicles stuck in this mess at five o'clock rush hour. It looks like just water, but it was mud that you could walk on a short time later. It had the interstate closed for many days after this for the road crews to remove all the vehicles and the mud.
of course. . smart guy.. and a lot of stu.p.id people on smaller cars.. stay they and not moving let other to go away.. then News rescue from their cars.. a few inches flooding.
Lu Cho you know that you can't walk in that water right? The news didn't walk in it and this wasn't the news this was a guy recording... you walk in water that powerful and your swept away... so nobody is stupid here ok?
13:19 A GOD IS WALKING ON THE WATER AND OTHERS CANT.I WILL FIND THE VIDEO AND POST THE LINK AND YOU NEED TO SEE WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT.SAME WAY.. NEWS GUY WALKING AND THE PEOPLE IN THE CAR WAIRING TO BE RESCUE.. SAMES AS THE LAS HURRACANE HOW FIREFIGHTER AND OTHERS CIVIL PEOPLE WALKIG AND PEOPLE IN THEIR HOUSES DONT WANTED TO WALK LIKE THEM.. BLA BLA.
Highway 58 was once a 2 lane road that fit the valley very well with deep drains on both sides. Then the California traffic became too much for 2 lanes and they rebuilt it into 4 lanes with the center divider to keep people from crashing into each other. There was no room for ditches, so they put drain pipes along the sides with screens to keep logs and rocks out of the pipe. In a flash flood, the brush and rocks block up the screens and the water can't get off the road into the pipes. Fortunately, floods like this only happen once or twice a year.
Haha. Brilliant. I love your thinking. At least you thought about something. Not many people do nowadays. They’re all brainwashed by everything. You’re on the ball. I can’t stop laughing. 😂 😂😂 🤣🤣👏👏
Kenetic Kups So are you. Because you’re not awake and in a coma. You actually didn’t get the joke. That’s why you commented with such a dumb ass response. 😂😂
It appears that the concrete divider does an almost perfect job of channeling the water into one side of the highway, making the situation much worse than necessary. It solves the problem of head-on collisions and creates a new & different problem.
@@sayulitalyfe5299 Just my opinion that more than half the voters don't really understand the propositions they are voting for/against and also know very little about the candidates for office. It would work better if all candidates were put on a television quiz show and asked pertinent questions about their qualifications, their knowledge of current laws, their understanding of voter needs, their understanding of finance. It should be just as hard to qualify for office as it is to pass a CPA exam or a law degree exam.
Neither do you. It doesn't matter how offroad your vehicle is, tires are filled with air, they float. The water will pick your car up when it is that deep and flowing that fast. You will also hydrolock in sedans and blow your engine.
I highly doubt it. 1.He parked behind a truck and couldn't be more of a break than the truck already was. 2. Facing into the flow, neither the truck not the car could be much of a break. 3.He didn't stay.
People are so stupid when it comes to emergency situations...my fight or flight senses would have propelled me up the side of that hill or turning my candied ass right around! You can bet that I wouldn't have just sat their like an idiot waiting for it to get worse!
Well cars cannot get on the hill because the water running on the side of the freeway creates a ditch which of course could not get into it after the ditch is full of water the water is going to run on the freeway lanes that’s white cars cannot climb the hill pick us is the ditch on the Edge
That's right go driving up the side of that hill which collapses into a soggy mud-mess under your wheels leaving you upside-down in the flooded road. Turn around to go the other way only to find the road behind you blocked by sideways cars. Face it, you're stuck there.
Lets all just sit here and wait until the water dries up 😵. Why is it that only two cars decided to do the right thing and go the opposite direction. Smh. Hopeless 😩.
Sometimes it is worse to sit and make no decision that gives you no chance of recovery than it is to make a decision early on in a problem and at least give yourself a fighting chance to get out of the problem. Git while the gitten's good!
Most likely because there were other small, light cars that were being carried away, and including all the cars behind them blocking the highway. If you were to try, the only space you have is the right way of the highway from the semi truck driver's view and there's a ditch there.
This is a remarkable video and it's too bad it's titled only with numbers, making it impossible to find in a search on this event. It's also remarkable how fast all this happens; the water is up and then down in just minutes. I'm surprised that more drivers didn't follow the lead of the people at the beginning who had the presence of mind to get the hell out of there and drive back in the wrong direction; most other vehicles just sit there and get stuck.
Toward the end of the clip, once the guy panned to his left and to the rear, I knew exactly where he was at; on W/B 58 between the truck scales and the Cameron exit. Approximate GPS position - N35°06'10.7" W118°16'41.8" Been through that place many times, but not while it was raining.
Everybody trying to blame the roadway design should think about a few things. This is a mountain pass, a.k.a. a low path between hills, which water prefers for the same reason you do (gravity). The road is at the bottom of what has always been a potential river valley, probably because horses and humans years ago found that to be the easiest route. But back then, if the water ever came up, a horse or human could just go sideways up the hill a bit and keep going, instead of sitting helpless like these modern pod-people from the Matrix. Secondly horizontal space next to the roadway is at a premium in this kind of steep terrain. Space where you might be inclined to add another lane to satisfy your fired-up constituency who insist on driving through here by the millions. Space where you might instead want to add a ditch for surface water runoff. You either have to cut sideways into the hill or raise the road bed and/or bury pipes, any of which adds millions to the cost and requires lengthy road closures. Looks like in this case the political clout of millions of people who insist on driving won out, and they added the extra lanes but not the ditches (can't really tell though). With or without a ditch, adding lanes will inevitably (because it's literally the goal), increase the surface area of pavement (water no likey, water run offy) and decrease the amount of exposed soil and vegetation that would otherwise have slowed the water down and/or given it a chance to soak into the ground. Which makes flooding "flashier" and worse. Anyway it's a desert, right? It'll never rain super-much here. Well, probably back in the day that used to be true, but now it's not, because the climate has changed, which is partly because of those same people who insist on driving everywhere constantly. Are engineers supposed to design infinite roads with infinite capacity for infinite numbers of cars AND design infinite drainage for infinitely bigger and more frequent flash-floods caused by the same cars? No, I'm sorry, fuck me very much, there are limits. PS the K-rails/jersey barriers on the left are there for the same reason we put helmets on some kids: To keep 'em from hurting themselves.
The road is not at the bottom of the valley, it's up on the side. Cache Creek is to the left in this view, down lower. The flood came out of a side ravine up the road a ways. One that rarely has much water in it. There was an unusual cloudburst a little way up the hills to the right.
Probably, the most prudent thing to do is to get your car as close as possible to the hill on the right so that if water rises, you can get down and climb up the hill to save yourself.
I answered my own question; part of your video made the following newscast; apparently, a 10 mile stretch of Hwy 58 was shut down ffor SEVERAL DAYS! due to this flood of mud and debris brought about by desert, torrential rains. The state of the freeway and the cars were a lot worse behind you with debris covering some of their hoods. It must have been very scary. You were probably there all night long and into the next day until they rescued you, if you took the rescue. Your rig looked very comfortable. Here's the newscast: abc7.com/weather/10-mile-stretch-of-cars-stuck-on-sr-58-in-tehachapi/1036201/
In Georgia it is legal to buy a " total loss / rebuild title" from another state due to flooding. I use to work at a used crap dealership and the cleaning dpt would just paint the carpet from flooded cars that they were buying by the truckloads from New Jersey floodings.
As an Egyptian driver we would use that hill as a third lane at that type of situations but all drivers right there look so respectful to the road lane :D
Have not heard / seen wipers like that since the 60's Took the red car (and many of the others) in front of the Mack at least 15mins before they took their foot off the break pedal ?
They were blocked up ahead by large vehicles, the guy filming was in something so big he hadnt a hope of doing a U turn - the silver car in front was afloat - then stalled and lost power - the filmer was bumper to bumper with the red car in front - and then that pillock in the white pickup drove up the right and blocked any further escape from those stuck up in the front
Where is this? It looks like a sudden mudslide that these drivers didn’t predict. Plus they are on a freeway it seems so they can’t just turn around! They have to find an exit & such!
I remember this. I live nearby. After the flash flood and mudslide, the sediment got caked and baked into a concrete-like hard pack. Several dozen cars were totalled.
Some people don’t know this but when your in water that high shut your engine off, because when you don’t you have water entering the engine which will lock the engine up and most likely you’ll have to get a new one.
If you gotta get stuck on a hwy like this I'd rather be in a semi. No chance of it getting into your intake if it doesn't rise and you have your comforts right at hand.
Ugh. Flooding once your in the thick of it, especially in a situation like this, your options dwindle. Turn around and go down and you may be going into deeper water if the geography bowls naturally downhill for sure leading to a flooded engine. My only chance would've been if I had a vehicle that could handle it would be to drive it up on the elevated shoulder. I'd probably get stuck, but my engine would survive. Also, that concrete divider creates this mess. Yank it, and put in a wire divider. Washington State puts in wire lane dividers to prevent head-ons. It'd be essential in this situation, the water could disperse while preventing cars from crossing into oncoming lanes.
We were driving home to Tehachapi from San Diego from my grandmother's funeral and were in Mojave when this happened. We stayed in traffic for a while, then made a U-turn and went to Rosamond to try and take Tehachapi Willow Springs Road. Talked to a few folks at a gas station, and decided it would be safer to just get a hotel and wait it out. All the hotels in Lancaster/Palmdale and the surrounding area were filled, so we ended up having to drive to LA to find a hotel. Definitely an emotional roller coaster of a week. I just thank the Lord we didn't get there sooner and get stuck in that mud.
Update: He's still sitting there. And yes, his wipers are still wiping.
The wipers should be smoking by now..
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Yeahh! Wait for the traffic to move
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I’m very familiar with this highway 58 between Mojave’s and tehachapi, ca. I’ve been reading a lot of these comments and just for your information:
1) there’s no way to drive up the hill in a hummer, truck, suv, etc because there’s a drop on the other side of that ledge
2) the edge or hill is sopping in water that given any type of vehicle and attempting to go up will get stuck in thick clay mud and if you were to make it, you’d be dropping down into a small canyon or steep hill, no flat out after that.
3) during this rainy time, there was construction that only allowed for a one lane and driving 45 mph.
4) I believe that due to the heavy rain, there were also mud slides either before and after the filming of this vid, that trapped a significant amount of vehicles and made it impossible to drive out. These vehicles were stuck in place for hours and hours.
5) I was one of the few vehicles that made it out of that canyon part of hwy 58 before the rains really came down. When I got to Victorville, ca, I had heard that many vehicles’ engines had flooded as parts of the hwy were deeper than others parts. I can’t imagine having to stay in one place for hours at a time and hoping that the rains don’t drop a deluge. Remember, you’re going up in elevation so I’m sure the vehicles down the hwy were in even more in danger.
It was a dangerous day.
Thanks for the vid. It gave me a different perspective from a higher vantage point. I can only imagine what that vehicle in the front must have been feeling.
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I recognize this because I was stuck on this same freeway all night. Over a hundred vehicles stuck in this mess at five o'clock rush hour. It looks like just water, but it was mud that you could walk on a short time later. It had the interstate closed for many days after this for the road crews to remove all the vehicles and the mud.
Thank you for the information.
I used to pull a Bullwagon through there. Not fun when 4wheelers everywhere.
I would leave the car and try to get high ground
My life is more important than material things
20 minutes of watching a window wiper, I'm now under your control master. Lmao 😂
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holy crap, took 20 min... lol ... you're hard to hypnotize... lol
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Flat bed Chevy: "Ight ima leave"
Chevy Malibu: "That dont sound like a bad idea"
Talkin about the Legacy? I don’t think a Malibu can drive that deep
lmao the legacy and the stratus 😂
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Fact: You didn’t search for this
I did
I did
Hehe boi
Most of those people have no idea that they are patiently waiting for FLOOD DAMAGE to permanently destroy their car's electronics.
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Not this video's title but I searched "flooded highway" and this video pop up.
This was incredible to watch!!! I would’ve never even thought of this type of scenario. Great footage!
The black truck driver was smart it can only get worse and the car driver followed.
of course. .
smart guy..
and a lot of stu.p.id people on smaller cars.. stay they and not moving let other to go away..
then News rescue from their cars.. a few inches flooding.
Lu Cho you are stupid... news don't save people and the cars are floating and TRAPPED and it's hard to drive idiot
NOT TALKING ABOUT DRIVING . GUY NEWS CAN WALK. WHY OTHE PEOPLE IN THE CAR CANT WALK?IDIOT.
Lu Cho you know that you can't walk in that water right? The news didn't walk in it and this wasn't the news this was a guy recording... you walk in water that powerful and your swept away... so nobody is stupid here ok?
13:19 A GOD IS WALKING ON THE WATER AND OTHERS CANT.I WILL FIND THE VIDEO AND POST THE LINK AND YOU NEED TO SEE WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT.SAME WAY.. NEWS GUY WALKING AND THE PEOPLE IN THE CAR WAIRING TO BE RESCUE.. SAMES AS THE LAS HURRACANE HOW FIREFIGHTER AND OTHERS CIVIL PEOPLE WALKIG AND PEOPLE IN THEIR HOUSES DONT WANTED TO WALK LIKE THEM.. BLA BLA.
I was recommended this video 2 years back. Today I have been recommended this video again. YT algorithm, hats off to you.
Oh man I so remember this, what a mess it was, had to go the back way to get to Cal City or Lancaster. Thank you for the video!
That's a pretty well designed road, but they should put in some additional traps and hazards, like a miniature golf course, to make it even more fun.
Why would they build a solid wall without breaks to drain water? This is a flood river created by poor design.
Welcome to California!
It's California what do you expect.
Its not a poor design its better than having both sides filled with water and the watter will find a ditch to settle in.
Highway 58 was once a 2 lane road that fit the valley very well with deep drains on both sides. Then the California traffic became too much for 2 lanes and they rebuilt it into 4 lanes with the center divider to keep people from crashing into each other. There was no room for ditches, so they put drain pipes along the sides with screens to keep logs and rocks out of the pipe. In a flash flood, the brush and rocks block up the screens and the water can't get off the road into the pipes. Fortunately, floods like this only happen once or twice a year.
The sold concrete medial wall is a standard requirement for freeways everywhere in the entire USA, people.
So the Officer got out of his vehicle to see if people were doing ok? If so, that is one hell of a cop there.
Just making sure they weren't mexies. They would air lift them to safety.
Like your mom
lmao, that Subaru is like "eh i'm outta here." *Gradually turns around* .
Now I know why the commercials say that the Subaru vehicles are some of the safest on the road.
Dude in the blue truck was like “yea, imma head out” lmao
D Res that’d be me. If I were there. No way I’m staying in that.
i think we're been hypnotized by the sound of the wipers for subliminal messages 😵😵😂😂😂
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that's so funny you say that and so trueeee. :-)
Haha. Brilliant. I love your thinking. At least you thought about something. Not many people do nowadays. They’re all brainwashed by everything.
You’re on the ball. I can’t stop laughing. 😂 😂😂 🤣🤣👏👏
Kenetic Kups So are you. Because you’re not awake and in a coma. You actually didn’t get the joke. That’s why you commented with such a dumb ass response. 😂😂
What do you think the message is? Lol 😂
The whole time I'm watching this I'm wondering if my Jeep would have made it up that hill to the right.
It appears that the concrete divider does an almost perfect job of channeling the water into one side of the highway, making the situation much worse than necessary. It solves the problem of head-on collisions and creates a new & different problem.
I get it now - the lanes going the opposite direction are directly underneath on the left
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@@sayulitalyfe5299 Just my opinion that more than half the voters don't really understand the propositions they are voting for/against and also know very little about the candidates for office. It would work better if all candidates were put on a television quiz show and asked pertinent questions about their qualifications, their knowledge of current laws, their understanding of voter needs, their understanding of finance. It should be just as hard to qualify for office as it is to pass a CPA exam or a law degree exam.
Thanks for posting. I was a few miles down stream. Took us 18 hours to get home to Bay Area. Scary night!
My truck is a 4wd - I would have tried to barrel up the side of that hill and parked on higher ground.
Thats what i thought that one truck was gonna do haha
Clueless Californians as always
jewllake 4wd can not beat mother nature
no, but here you could have at least gotten out of danger and saved your car!!!
jewllake bingo!
shame for all these SUV owners . they buy offroad vehicles and have no idea how todrive.
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Exact.
Neither do you. It doesn't matter how offroad your vehicle is, tires are filled with air, they float. The water will pick your car up when it is that deep and flowing that fast. You will also hydrolock in sedans and blow your engine.
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The officer in 14:30 was he check the seatbelt to give tickets?
probably making sure everyone is okay
I highly doubt it. It looks like he parked his car to act as water break
I highly doubt it. 1.He parked behind a truck and couldn't be more of a break than the truck already was. 2. Facing into the flow, neither the truck not the car could be much of a break. 3.He didn't stay.
Justin Justin nah he was looking for donuts
Obviously he was giving parking tickets lol
3:02 are the two trucks working together to funnel the water? It seems intentional and strategic. And is the white car holding back branches? 🤔
People are so stupid when it comes to emergency situations...my fight or flight senses would have propelled me up the side of that hill or turning my candied ass right around! You can bet that I wouldn't have just sat their like an idiot waiting for it to get worse!
Well cars cannot get on the hill because the water running on the side of the freeway creates a ditch which of course could not get into it after the ditch is full of water the water is going to run on the freeway lanes that’s white cars cannot climb the hill pick us is the ditch on the Edge
thats what i said....the 4 by 4 truck should have climbed that hill...the cars and semi....dont have much of a choice but to just to sit there
That's right go driving up the side of that hill which collapses into a soggy mud-mess under your wheels leaving you upside-down in the flooded road. Turn around to go the other way only to find the road behind you blocked by sideways cars. Face it, you're stuck there.
We all can’t be as smart as you
I have a nice 4x4 - 4x6 F450 Dually and even as powerful as it is would never make it up that hill in a situation like this one.
That concrete wall on the left turns the road into a flood dam. Genius.
19 minutes of watching most drivers, bovine-like, sitting on their butts and doing nothing.
Just typical car drivers.
What should the drivers do in this situation
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Thanks for letting us ur windshield wipers
work really good
haha.
Thank God is not a fender bender
Wow what a flood. Not really getting why no body tried to climb the small hill on the side.
I was thinking about the same thing.
Emilthehun because it’s raining so going on the hill would mean being in a lot of mud.
Emilthehun That's exactly what I was thinking.
Garnet The Gem I think it would be fine, it wasn't deteriorating.
Look at how high the water stream is. Someone might get swept away with the current. You've see how the cars moved from the water.
Thank you great video.I am sure by now windshield wipers fixed.till then keep smiling with lol politely and healthy safely wait.
Lets all just sit here and wait until the water dries up 😵. Why is it that only two cars decided to do the right thing and go the opposite direction. Smh. Hopeless 😩.
Driving into oncoming traffic is a great idea..
But the road was backed up for 10 miles, so I'm guessing those people didn't get to far.
They are stuck down yonder
John O Brien what so sitting there is better. Atleast try and do something, id speed my car up that hill see how far up i could get
Going downstream? You do realize it’s piling up high somewhere down there. I suppose perhaps they were trying to find someplace they could go.
Who was the Einstein that thought a solid concrete barrier along the downside of the road was a good idea?
Needs a few drainage holes installed.
This is where a lifted truck with 4wd comes in hand.
super gunner34 and all the other days you look like a moron.
LOL look at the coping. You can add just a little height and width without losing any practicality.
super gunner34 Or a shallow water boat
super gunner34 Verry true
You don't have to be lifted to be honest.
This was on highway 58 between Mojave and Tehachapi, Ca I remember when it happened
Sometimes it is worse to sit and make no decision that gives you no chance of recovery than it is to make a decision early on in a problem and at least give yourself a fighting chance to get out of the problem. Git while the gitten's good!
Credit to the red sedan for backing up against the semi. If ya can't run, brace yourself against a solid object. Seemed to work well in this case.
It's unreal why some of them couldn't turn around, and go another way, kinda wondering how long you all had to set there ! :(
Most likely because there were other small, light cars that were being carried away, and including all the cars behind them blocking the highway. If you were to try, the only space you have is the right way of the highway from the semi truck driver's view and there's a ditch there.
The wiper blades killed me ten times over..
Damn got it😂😂
Should not be moving that fast, plus hazard lights are on
Hope everyone made it out safe I would have been a nervous wreck especially if I had to hear those wipers the entire time..OMG
should you turn off the engine to stop it from sucking water in, or leave it on so you can potentially drive through? curious.....
4:23 that SUV got the best possible spot in this situation, it had 2 SUVs + a semi for a shield
This is a crazy , wild, muddy river thats getting deeper by the minute.
alguém em 2021?
Anyone in 2021?
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Кто-нибудь в 2021 году?
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This is a remarkable video and it's too bad it's titled only with numbers, making it impossible to find in a search on this event. It's also remarkable how fast all this happens; the water is up and then down in just minutes. I'm surprised that more drivers didn't follow the lead of the people at the beginning who had the presence of mind to get the hell out of there and drive back in the wrong direction; most other vehicles just sit there and get stuck.
hebneh yeh hes missing out on alot of views and possible income.
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Most likely this happened in an instant when a culvert became blocked by debris. No one would have had any warning of the sudden flood.
It was on Highway 58 in Tehachapi California. The flood went for 10 miles down this Hwy. There was 192 vehicles, 75 semi trucks and 2 tour buses.
@@brittany7jeffrey4 any casualties?
Toward the end of the clip, once the guy panned to his left and to the rear, I knew exactly where he was at; on W/B 58 between the truck scales and the Cameron exit. Approximate GPS position - N35°06'10.7" W118°16'41.8"
Been through that place many times, but not while it was raining.
Everybody trying to blame the roadway design should think about a few things. This is a mountain pass, a.k.a. a low path between hills, which water prefers for the same reason you do (gravity). The road is at the bottom of what has always been a potential river valley, probably because horses and humans years ago found that to be the easiest route. But back then, if the water ever came up, a horse or human could just go sideways up the hill a bit and keep going, instead of sitting helpless like these modern pod-people from the Matrix.
Secondly horizontal space next to the roadway is at a premium in this kind of steep terrain. Space where you might be inclined to add another lane to satisfy your fired-up constituency who insist on driving through here by the millions. Space where you might instead want to add a ditch for surface water runoff. You either have to cut sideways into the hill or raise the road bed and/or bury pipes, any of which adds millions to the cost and requires lengthy road closures.
Looks like in this case the political clout of millions of people who insist on driving won out, and they added the extra lanes but not the ditches (can't really tell though). With or without a ditch, adding lanes will inevitably (because it's literally the goal), increase the surface area of pavement (water no likey, water run offy) and decrease the amount of exposed soil and vegetation that would otherwise have slowed the water down and/or given it a chance to soak into the ground. Which makes flooding "flashier" and worse.
Anyway it's a desert, right? It'll never rain super-much here. Well, probably back in the day that used to be true, but now it's not, because the climate has changed, which is partly because of those same people who insist on driving everywhere constantly. Are engineers supposed to design infinite roads with infinite capacity for infinite numbers of cars AND design infinite drainage for infinitely bigger and more frequent flash-floods caused by the same cars? No, I'm sorry, fuck me very much, there are limits.
PS the K-rails/jersey barriers on the left are there for the same reason we put helmets on some kids: To keep 'em from hurting themselves.
The road is not at the bottom of the valley, it's up on the side. Cache Creek is to the left in this view, down lower. The flood came out of a side ravine up the road a ways. One that rarely has much water in it. There was an unusual cloudburst a little way up the hills to the right.
Probably, the most prudent thing to do is to get your car as close as possible to the hill on the right so that if water rises, you can get down and climb up the hill to save yourself.
Rumor has it he is still setting there today waiting on the drowned cars to move
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I answered my own question; part of your video made the following newscast; apparently, a 10 mile stretch of Hwy 58 was shut down ffor SEVERAL DAYS! due to this flood of mud and debris brought about by desert, torrential rains. The state of the freeway and the cars were a lot worse behind you with debris covering some of their hoods. It must have been very scary. You were probably there all night long and into the next day until they rescued you, if you took the rescue. Your rig looked very comfortable. Here's the newscast: abc7.com/weather/10-mile-stretch-of-cars-stuck-on-sr-58-in-tehachapi/1036201/
So, my takeaway from this is that , in the US, you are yet to understand the value of draining water AWAY from your highways
Gavan Duffy So you judge an entire country based on a single UA-cam video? How typical of you European prats.
@Gavan Duffy It's not the US it's Comifornia they defecate in the streets and have typhus and bubonic plague there.
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Nature shows how small and helpless man is ...No forests = no protection against floods caused by heavy rain
And about 75% of these cars/suvs and truck ended up on some slime balls Buy Here/Pay Here lot.
Low miles, clean, salvage title.
In Georgia it is legal to buy a " total loss / rebuild title" from another state due to flooding. I use to work at a used crap dealership and the cleaning dpt would just paint the carpet from flooded cars that they were buying by the truckloads from New Jersey floodings.
Q is that a solid wall on the left,What kinda ejit would design a highway which would funnell water ? Only in America
If you don't put one of those there, morons from opposing directions will plow into each other head-on.
As an Egyptian driver we would use that hill as a third lane at that type of situations but all drivers right there look so respectful to the road lane :D
You would sink up to your axles if you drove on that hill.
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5 years later I will get this on my recommended again like now I'm 5 years late.
Even when the rain subsided he was STILL banging his wipers 🤣🤣.
He is nervous
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Imagine how scary it would’ve been being inside of a flood like that
My favorite part of this video is how descriptive the title is.
You had the best vehicle for that flash flood! High and Dry! 👍 Guy in that black chevy truck and the cars that followed had the right idea!
i would definitely rather be sitting in your rig than in any of those other vehicles wow
Habria una posibilidad de que desconectaras los limpiaparabrisas?
That river looks like a good highway
Have not heard / seen wipers like that since the 60's
Took the red car (and many of the others) in front of the Mack at least 15mins before they took their foot off the break pedal ?
Why didn't everyone move like the few others? They were either afraid of getting a ticket or their cars stalled. Hopefully no-one got hurt.
Afraid of a ticket? What are you 12?
ekoms108 What are you 5?
ekoms 108 - says the expert, SAFE and DRY in your living room...
They were blocked up ahead by large vehicles, the guy filming was in something so big he hadnt a hope of doing a U turn - the silver car in front was afloat - then stalled and lost power - the filmer was bumper to bumper with the red car in front - and then that pillock in the white pickup drove up the right and blocked any further escape from those stuck up in the front
I gave up an episode of Friends for this and it was worth it. I felt like i was there!
Now that's a real bad luck ryan moment
Where is this? It looks like a sudden mudslide that these drivers didn’t predict. Plus they are on a freeway it seems so they can’t just turn around! They have to find an exit & such!
When you saw the little cars making outta there would have been a clue...turn around and save yourself
Looks like the freeway was built in the middle of a massive wash from those surrounding mountains
Hummer Drivers: *i've been waiting for this day*
I remember this. I live nearby. After the flash flood and mudslide, the sediment got caked and baked into a concrete-like hard pack. Several dozen cars were totalled.
The jeep is like "yes. This is my territory. I was made for this".
This is so scary. Thankful no one seems to have been hurt - at least not here. Praise the Lord!
I'm getting my corvette lifted 😂😂
did you get that 5ft lift kit?
a low riding vette would absolutely get flooded in this.
What’s that barrier on the left for, to keep flooding down? I know the water is running off the mountain side but the barrier how does it help?
I wonder...why didn't 4x4 drivers just climb the hill?
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Because they bought 4x4 just to look cool without ever using it..
They panicked and couldn't read owners manual how to turn on 4wd.
Because they dont have skills to drive 4wd
I was thinking the same. Is better than just standing there. Even for small cars to try and get up there.
SIMPLE----cause most ass holes dont know how to DRIVE a 4 wheeler!!!! besides all MUD on the hill and would have been stuck anyway
@@forthefunofit3230 plus they would have been shot by the cops in lefty ville .
Some people don’t know this but when your in water that high shut your engine off, because when you don’t you have water entering the engine which will lock the engine up and most likely you’ll have to get a new one.
Dude your wipers way to freakin fast!
Lol
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So what are they waiting for is it deeper at the top?
Amazing vid. Thanks for sharing. Stay safe.
Why are the wipers on full speed when the car isn’t moving?
13:50 getting mesmerized by wipers and cop car lights! what will they do!
Wonder why the wipers are running at high speed during the light rain?
This is when driving skill and decision cams handy
that wiper sound..i love that..so good.i didnt even notice that its was 19 min long clip..
Cars and Trucks for sale, "Clean Titles"
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Kiss Kiss Hahaha, that’s funny😁😁🤣🤣
For real
Todavía hay eso en el 2021 ???
As the weather people now say, "Turn around, don't drown!"
Is the semi pushing red car? Looks really close
Dear Lord, what a nightmare predicament to find yourself trapped in. WOW!
If you gotta get stuck on a hwy like this I'd rather be in a semi. No chance of it getting into your intake if it doesn't rise and you have your comforts right at hand.
How long did it take to get out?
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Oh dearest God bless you and all human beings around the world
I wonder if the water got inside the cars ?? (Especially the sedans)
Legend has it that they are still there...
Ugh. Flooding once your in the thick of it, especially in a situation like this, your options dwindle. Turn around and go down and you may be going into deeper water if the geography bowls naturally downhill for sure leading to a flooded engine. My only chance would've been if I had a vehicle that could handle it would be to drive it up on the elevated shoulder. I'd probably get stuck, but my engine would survive.
Also, that concrete divider creates this mess. Yank it, and put in a wire divider. Washington State puts in wire lane dividers to prevent head-ons. It'd be essential in this situation, the water could disperse while preventing cars from crossing into oncoming lanes.
to insurance company: "I sat there like an idiot ad flooded my car." or "I need a tow. my car got stuck on hill on side of road."?
nice Video which Model Dash cam used for recording , Its too dangerous flood