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    12/30/2015 5:44 PM  #1

    terry
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    I dont understand how this can happen

    If I owned this it would have been moved LOOOOONG before the water got this high

     

    12/30/2015 5:48 PM  #2

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    Re: I dont understand how this can happen

    That is sad, but can be repaired.

    John  -- 67 Mustang Coupe 390 5 speed
     

    12/30/2015 6:27 PM  #3

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    Re: I dont understand how this can happen

    OMG - the person who owns that car needs to be horse whipped! Unless they're dead, they should have gotten it moved. Sad. Such a waste.

    68 coupe - 351W, 4R70W, 9" 3.25 -- 65 convertible - 289 4v, C4, 8" 3.00
     

    12/30/2015 6:47 PM  #4

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    Re: I dont understand how this can happen

    those fast rising flood waters could also have simply “swept” that Mustang away and, it ended up in front of that bank................

     

    12/30/2015 7:06 PM  #5

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    Re: I dont understand how this can happen

    Hey, Halverson !!!!!!   Seen your 69 fastback lately?

    Money you enjoy wasting is NOT wasted money... unless your wife finds out.
     

    12/30/2015 8:32 PM  #6

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    Re: I dont understand how this can happen

    That mustang would look pretty good in my garage drying out.

     

    12/31/2015 10:39 AM  #7

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    Re: I dont understand how this can happen

    Check the papers for an obituary for the guy who left his beloved '69 Mustang behind.  If there isn't one I volunteer to write it.

     

    12/31/2015 10:42 AM  #8

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    Re: I dont understand how this can happen

    I can see how it happens, grew up in the Ohio Valley and spent a lot of early springs helping clean up. Our whole Boy Scout troop would get our shots and go to work shoveling mud and scooping out houses and businesses. I have seen water rise a couple of feet in seconds, not minutes so you don't have as much time as you think and, oh, yeah, everyone else is trying to move too so panic sets in real quick. You are happy to leave that hunk of metal behind and get to higher ground yourself. The thing that goes wrong is that most do not believe it is going to get that bad because it hasn't in the last 30 years.

     

    12/31/2015 11:10 AM  #9

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    Re: I dont understand how this can happen

    There has to be rain though right?  Around here flash flooding is always caused by rain.  I don't drive my Mustang in the rain, and I live on top of a pretty serious hill.  Seems like poor planning to me. 

     

    12/31/2015 11:12 AM  #10

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    Come on... that's not real...look for the cars  reflection into the water Its very shallow not like the square columns...the reflection is just  colored in slightly under the rear  wheel opening...the front grill waterline is not even with the side of the car...hmmmm

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    12/31/2015 11:19 AM  #11

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    jerseyjoe wrote:

    Come on... that's not real...look for the cars  reflection into the water Its very shallow not like the square columns...the reflection is just  colored in slightly under the rear  wheel opening...the front grill waterline is not even with the side of the car...hmmmm

     Sorry Joe but that is real , my wife and I saw  the entire video footage clip on the news last night. It was not a still shot. Pretty hard to doctor that on NBC nightly news.
     My heart went out to the poor bugger who's Mustang got caught in that mess 

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    12/31/2015 11:46 AM  #12

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    Looks like to me he was trying to get out when the water came up around the car and  stalled it. Doesn't look like it is in a parking spot to me. They must have gotten wet!

     

    12/31/2015 12:16 PM  #13

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    Rudi wrote:

    jerseyjoe wrote:

    Come on... that's not real...look for the cars  reflection into the water Its very shallow not like the square columns...the reflection is just  colored in slightly under the rear  wheel opening...the front grill waterline is not even with the side of the car...hmmmm

     Sorry Joe but that is real , my wife and I saw  the entire video footage clip on the news last night. It was not a still shot. Pretty hard to doctor that on NBC nightly news.
     My heart went out to the poor bugger who's Mustang got caught in that mess 

    Thanks Rudi...That's awful,but I can under stand how it can happen...many years ago at the NSRA Nationals in Louisville there was a very bad flash flood... the big tire cars were actually floating in the low areas of the fair grounds...many many cars were ruined in a matter of hours, thank God my car was on high ground.......jj

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    12/31/2015 12:54 PM  #14

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    Re: I dont understand how this can happen

    jerseyjoe wrote:

    Come on... that's not real...look for the cars  reflection into the water Its very shallow not like the square columns...the reflection is just  colored in slightly under the rear  wheel opening...the front grill waterline is not even with the side of the car...hmmmm

    It's real!  this is in Eureka Missouri just outside of St. Louis.  I saw this car in a live shot this morning.  It truly SUX  but I'm like TKO  My 65 wouldn't have been out there to begin with

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    12/31/2015 4:25 PM  #15

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    I'm reminded of something I saw many years ago in Atlantic City.  It was raining quite a bit, and all the drop off points for the boardwalk were flooded.  We were able to get out onto the running boards of my Dad's Suburban and avoid stepping in knee deep water.  Standing on the boardwalk I see this guy in a Trans-Am (like screaming chicken on the hood full on guido special) start driving up to where we were.  I'm looking at him thinking doesn't he see the 4x4 in water up to the running boards?  What would posses him to try and drive into an area like that?  Miraculously he turns the car around and starts to head out, of course that wasn't enough for him.  No, this cretin decides to floor it on the way out.  A wave of water crests over his hood and I hear the engine go WAAAAAAAA-clunk-clunk-clunk and then there was nothing.  So I'm just standing there in my slicker waiting for him and his buddy to climb out into the water and call a tow truck.  I wish I could have been a fly on the wall for the inevitable conversation the shop it got towed to had with him when he found out the motor was ruined from being hydrolocked while running.  Ron white was right: you can't fix stupid. 

     

    12/31/2015 5:15 PM  #16

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    Re: I dont understand how this can happen

    Just saw where Mustang Monthly posted this very picture on their Facebook page

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    12/31/2015 6:45 PM  #17

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    Re: I dont understand how this can happen

    MustangSteve wrote:

    Hey, Halverson !!!!!!   Seen your 69 fastback lately?

      For that reason alone I live in the    Highest point in Green County Wisconsin!   I went and checked and its still on jack stands...LOL
     

     

    12/31/2015 8:09 PM  #18

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    Re: I dont understand how this can happen

    Any information on owner, I would be interested in making offer.

    1969 Fastback Owned 48 years second owner!
     

    12/31/2015 9:24 PM  #19

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    Black Jade wrote:

    Any information on owner, I would be interested in making offer.

    Have not heard anything on the owner!!

     Are you able to keep your head above water down there??

     I may have to make a trip down there this summer and check out your cruise- ins I've heard so much about.
     

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    1/15/2016 12:36 AM  #20

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    Re: I dont understand how this can happen

    I live in Eureka, about a mile from where this photo was taken.  Never seen that car around town before.  We're pretty sure he was going for an insurance claim...  There was 3 days notice on the water flooding.

     

    1/15/2016 6:44 AM  #21

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    soonerfan wrote:

    I live in Eureka, about a mile from where this photo was taken.  Never seen that car around town before.  We're pretty sure he was going for an insurance claim...  There was 3 days notice on the water flooding.

    that sounds about right!  

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    1/15/2016 9:22 AM  #22

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    Re: I dont understand how this can happen

    Stumbled on this photo today of a car that looks stikingly similar to the flooded car.  Looks like the photo was worked on in 2010 in a neighboring town to our town.
    http://metro-westservices.com/images/albums/NewAlbum_7eae1/tn_1200_Ballwin_2010_Web.jpg.jpg
     

     

    1/15/2016 4:04 PM  #23

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    Definitely NOT the same car, different year

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    1/15/2016 4:35 PM  #24

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    terry wrote:

    If I owned this it would have been moved LOOOOONG before the water got this high

    Looks like that roll of drainage pipe in front of the car did not get laid down in time!

    Good work ain't cheap, Cheap work ain't good!   Simple Man
     

     

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