well I thought that I would relate a story. a few weeks ago in calif. we had a big rain storm. on my way back to work I hit some slow moving cars and was rather pissed cause I was late. well I noticed the small puddle was getting deeper and deeper and soon found the reason for traffic... a river had formed running across the road. cause it was too late to stop and I know from my offroading experience tat the worst thing to do is to slow the engine down. if you do the backpressure in the exhaust causes the engine to stall and now your stuck. so I got the engine going around 3000rpm and worked my way through, clutch slipping all the way. I really got nervous when the car started to move sideways and then even more scared when water started to come in the bottom of the doors. I could feel and see the delorean lift as it started to float (the words pontoon body came to mind). when I got to work I managed to mop up about 1/4 of a gallon of water from the foot wells. I was also told by someone who stopped by my work that because of the massive amount of steam put out as the delorean passed into the water one or two people called the cops cause they thought my car was on fire