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The recent rains reminded me of a story from when I younger and I drove past the site of where this incident happened last night but in reality this happened back in 1998 when El Nino was hitting California.

It was raining really hard as it had been pretty much the whole month.  My dad had to get to work and was going to take me to the YMCA to drop me off there for the day until my mom could pick me up.  He had this old classic Ford truck that looked almost exactly like this  [THETRUCK](

So we were driving taking some side streets due to flooding and he realized he forgot his lunch.  On the way back home we head down a pretty big hill towards our street and he saw at the bottom that the intersection was flooded.  He didn't want to deal with that so I said I saw an alley we could cut through to get home.  He decides to trust my decision and turns into it.  This alley was pure dirt with an apartment building on one side and a fence for the backyard of the houses on the other.  So he gets maybe a third of the way across this when his tires get stuck in the mud.  We get out and he tries to shimmy some traction but its like quicksand out there with all the rain and runoff.  Of course he gets pissed and starts calling himself an idiot for listening to me and we walk home to call a tow truck and so he could let his job know he he'd probably not make it in.   

Well it turns out that the tow truck, in the process of trying to get his truck out of the mud, somehow causes his it to start to slide down the hill into the fence and into the persons back yard which was a giant hill leading the truck to crash into their porch.  Ever since then that alley has been sectioned off with cement poles and a chain.
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<bot>: Told dad to take a shortcut. He did.  Truck Stuck.  Truck fall down hill.  Truck hit house.