This was lesson 1 of 2 for this wild weekend in June. Don’t drive your car into flooded roads. Nearly half a dozen vehicles learned this lesson the hard way when a slow moving heavy storm passed over Southwest Denver, causing moderate street flooding along Chatfield Avenue south of Ken Caryl Ranch. Nearly 3 feet of water flooded out Chatfield at Shaffer Parkway stranding a handful of cars.
One guy (an idiot who made the Weather Channel) tried to cross the road in his rental car. He didn’t make it; he stalled out just shy of the entrance to the nearby neighborhood. I landed him on the Weather Channel hanging from his car with a cop in the background. He was one of nearly half a dozen cars that spent an hour waiting for water to recede.
