<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr">Forrest Gump was right.</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jan 3, 2022, at 11:38 AM, Ron Corry via Spridgets <spridgets@autox.team.net> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Thank you, Daniel, that is certainly entertaining and sad at the same time in that so many drivers do not have a clue.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>Thanks for sharing.</div><div><br></div><div>Ron.</div>=========================================================><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 3 Jan 2022 at 14:34, Weslake1330 via Spridgets <<a href="mailto:spridgets@autox.team.net" target="_blank">spridgets@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi List,<div><br></div><div>Happy New Year<br><div><br></div><div>Don't know if you have fords in the USA or elsewhere in the world. Here in the UK there are places where a small stream or brook crosses the road and for reasons most likely lost in antiquity, no bridge over or under was found necessary.</div><div><br></div><div>After a lot of wet weather a ford may be impassable to anyone with a regular car and regular amount of common sense. At other times when the ford isn't in flood but an idiot in a regular car drives through it leads to a problem! And, when the ford is in flood and an idiot drives through it becomes entertainment.</div><div><br></div><div>I forget what the UK Highway Code says about driving through a ford (except you check your brakes by lightly applying them after safely passing through it). The last time I drove through a ford I was on holiday in a rental car and took a detour to give my kids an interesting experience (never filmed it). I got out of the car checked the depth (between 4 and 8 inches from memory) and drove through, very slowly.</div><div><br></div><div>Here's a clip of what is now a famous ford in England that his its own Channel.<br><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm3vIQgBHdA" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm3vIQgBHdA</a><br></div></div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Daniel</div></div></div>
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