Fred Rawley, a practical joker at heart used to park his car in the desert and tell unsuspecting pretty girls that he had a “water fountain” in his car. When they swallowed their first sips of petrol he would laugh and point as they coughed and gagged.
You would think there would be a simpler way to keep your car dry during a flood. But I give the owner an A for effert, as long as the tree is still standing.
I've seen guys jack their cars up to hold them up on wood cribbing, in order to keep them out of flood waters.