I got off of work at 8pm Monday evening and went to catch up with rest of family to get dinner and watch fireworks. I arrived, ate a few bites of my sandwich, and along came a gully washer.
Friends took my wife and kids there, so all four of us piled into my station wagon – in a hurry (note: it was mostly dark at this time). The inside of wagon was roughly 100’ F (38’ C) for car had been sitting in the sun all day, and outside was about 75’ F (24’ C) at the time. Sense the wagon never had A/C – I couldn’t get the windshield completely un-fogged – which wasn’t as much of a problem as not seeing where you were going to begin with due to the heavy rain.
I finally pulled off at a gas station to let storm go pass by – then it started to hail for about 10 minutes on us.
There was so much water coming down, the 3 cowl vents could not clear the water fast enough, so I had water coming up and over the air horns (in the cowl) and water was just pouring into the floorboard via vent flaps.
Ended up with about an ½” of water on drivers and about 3” of rain on passenger side floorboard – which I shop vac’ed out and started to air out on the forth.
Wife wasn’t happy when she saw the rain water running right into her purse, that night.
Sounds like I might be changing out the carpet, sooner than later . . .
The news station said we got 5-½” of rain that night. I don’t know that I agree with that figure.
Note: for those not familiar with the cowl air horn(s) visit this link
Heater box removal , A/C 1980 F body Post #12. Cars without A/C has air horns on both sides of (inside of) cowl.
BudW