XPost: alt.home.repair   
   From: keith_nuttle@sbcglobal.net   
      
   On 12/26/2021 1:31 PM, The Real Bev wrote:   
      
   >> With most cars now having electrical windows and door locks that   
   >> activate about 5 or 10 mph you stand a good chance of electrical failure   
   >> when the car is under water.   
   >   
   > Not according to Mythbusters, at least for a while.   
      
   The door lock won't matter if we can't open the door (which by almost all   
   accounts, can't happen except in the first few seconds which the mythbusters   
   tested (Adam almost got his leg crushed by the door when he did it though).   
      
   And the rolldown windows won't matter if the videos are correct that there   
   are hundreds of pounds of sidewise pressure pushing the window against the   
   door jamb once the water level rises enough.   
      
   > I watched the video to figure out how this could have happened.  No   
   > information other than total stupidity.  You get stuck in an underpass.   
   >   You see the water rising.  You open the window or door and climb out   
   > onto the hood or roof or swim out of the underpass.  IT'S A FUCKING   
   > POND, not a raging river.   
      
   That's why it's important to teach our wives, children, and grandchildren   
   that they don't have any choice but to get out of that car immediately.   
   a. If they can open the door, do it (but they likely can't)   
   b. If they can open the window, do it (but they likely can't)   
   c. They most likely have to break the window to get out   
      
   > You DON'T just sit in your car and wait to drown.   
      
   I've listened to every car drowning 911 on the Internet where they seem to   
   feel "safe" inside the car, and they begin to get scared when the water   
   level on the window is higher than it is inside the car.   
      
   They feel that opening the window will "let the water in", which is why they   
   feel safer inside the car.   
      
   In this tunnel death, I suspect they simply felt safer inside the car.   
      
   What perhaps they didn't know was that the water fills up faster as the car   
   sinks lower - or maybe they figured the pavement was closer than it was.   
      
   For example, if the pavement was only 3 feet below the water level, they   
   would have settled to the roadway with enough of an air pocket to survive.   
      
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