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<blockquote data-quote="Okie4570" data-source="post: 3601200" data-attributes="member: 15643"><p>My daughter was sitting at a train crossing on the highway the other afternoon in pouring rain. Train cleared and she was accelerating, when about 35mph she hydroplained and dropped the right tire off the highway. Pretty steep embankment down into about 3' of water. The embankment was soft so it grabbed her Jeep hard and down she went. I know you can't prepare your kids for everything but this is one thing we/she practiced I don't know how many times. What to do when, not if, you drop a tire off or have to leave the roadway. We're extremely rural, highways are pretty much empty most of the time. After got her license we/she must have practiced dropping a tire off hundreds of times at various medium to slow speeds so she could get the feel of it and not panic and over correct. A jeep on 35" tires and 3.5" lift has a low tolerance for over correcting lol. She did good, road it out into the bottom and made a big splash. Guy that was behind her stopped to check on her. He said "I don't have strap or chain long enough to pull you out". Her reply, "I think I can drive out, if not I'll call my dad." She put it in 4x4 low, steered around the pole and up the ditch to where the embankment wasn't so steep and on to work. Thankful it was wasn't worse and that she'd practiced that as much as she did.[ATTACH=full]211920[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]211921[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]211922[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Okie4570, post: 3601200, member: 15643"] My daughter was sitting at a train crossing on the highway the other afternoon in pouring rain. Train cleared and she was accelerating, when about 35mph she hydroplained and dropped the right tire off the highway. Pretty steep embankment down into about 3' of water. The embankment was soft so it grabbed her Jeep hard and down she went. I know you can't prepare your kids for everything but this is one thing we/she practiced I don't know how many times. What to do when, not if, you drop a tire off or have to leave the roadway. We're extremely rural, highways are pretty much empty most of the time. After got her license we/she must have practiced dropping a tire off hundreds of times at various medium to slow speeds so she could get the feel of it and not panic and over correct. A jeep on 35" tires and 3.5" lift has a low tolerance for over correcting lol. She did good, road it out into the bottom and made a big splash. Guy that was behind her stopped to check on her. He said "I don't have strap or chain long enough to pull you out". Her reply, "I think I can drive out, if not I'll call my dad." She put it in 4x4 low, steered around the pole and up the ditch to where the embankment wasn't so steep and on to work. Thankful it was wasn't worse and that she'd practiced that as much as she did.[ATTACH type="full"]211920[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full"]211921[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full"]211922[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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