Road or River?

Nonstop torrential rain one morning while I was in Ithaca caused impressive flash flooding on South Meadow Street. (This is Ithaca's unfortunate big-box-store strip, and the flooding is a prime example of why paving over wetlands is never a great idea!)

Anyway, this picture doesn't do it justice, but there were long lines of cars backed up in both directions to ford the section of the road that was under some quite deep water – definitely the deepest I've forded outside of Iceland and an Icelandic river-fording truck!