What did you do to your X300 today?

I get many rides in on the iffy days. Get burned occasionally, but mostly not. I took it out in the deluge we had last summer. Had freeways flooded for weeks, hundreds of cars submerged. I was nearly one of them. Water came over the hood for a good 10 seconds. Not sure how it stayed running, but I got to surface streets after that. It was raining so hard I was utterly soaked before even getting into my car in the parking lot.
It was still raining the next day with much flooding everywhere. I elected to not risk the car and have an urban flooding adventure ride instead. I crossed a few lakes that got half way up to my air intake. Gortex is great stuff. I got to work dry and actually had fun.

It was a once in a lifetime flood event here around Detroit and I’m mid 50s. No, it’s not because of climate change. Somehow, 21 of our 24 pump stations failed to evacuate the storm water. Looked a lot like our fine governor Gretchen Whitmer’s way of securing federal funding for equipment maintenance and upgrades. Forget the millions in property damage that people were rewarded with. The state got their funding.