TOD: When I was working in TV in the mid 80's, we worked in a big concrete building with a parking deck. During a flash flood, I drove home, not realizing that it had been raining for hours because you had no sense of the weather outside while you were in the studio. When I left, I hit a large puddle that kept getting deeper...and deeper...
By the time I realized that it was too deep to drive through, and the engine (literally) flooded, I drowned it and escaped through my rolled-down window. Other cars got stuck too, and opened their doors letting the water rush in. (This is when I decided I would never buy a car with electric windows.) I swam up to a liquor store and met a semi-drunk guy who was willing to help tow my car out of the water. When we returned to the car, it was floating and had turned completely around, so we pushed it until the wheels were on the road and then towed it out. It was my first new car and I thought I had destroyed it!
It turned out that the only mishap was a blown engine fuse. But for months, whenever it got hot and the windows were up, it turned into a terrarium.