Houston has a major flash flood. (I didn’t know anything about this until…) Girlfriend was at work, got an email late from her building saying that her street was prone to flooding. But by the time she got home at 7PM, she didn’t see any indication of flooding.

girlfriend takes my car to work (told her to take it around every few days to make sure the battery wouldn’t go flat.) She called me at 4AM, LA time, (she’s a teacher and goes to work at 6AM) and she said, there’s water in your car, when I took my laptop out of your backseat floor it was wet, and she was hysterical, she felt REALLY bad… I told her, look, don’t worry about it, it’s too damn early, I just went to bed at 2AM, just have a good day at work…
She called 2 hours later and asked what I should do, and again, I told her not to worry about it, but she felt SO BAD that she insisted she takes off work to do something. And I told her to not worry.
Another hour later, she called and said, “look, what do you want me to do, I took the day off.” Now I felt bad. And I told her to take it to a carwash to have them vacuum the water out. She called me a about 15 min later and said that there was WAY TOO much water in the car and asked what I should do.
I called ***, he was in Los Angeles visiting his family, LOL. He called the dealership, called me and told me to tell my GF see Jennifer, the girl who worked next to him and they’ll give my GF a ride home.

At first, Jennifer called me and said look, you’re at $800 of damage for the floor board or whatever, maybe you should call your insurance company. I said well, my deductible is $1000, I’ll go out of pocket, but can you wait until I get there? No problem.
I also called Charles and said WTF, is something wrong with the car that there is water IN it after a it rained really hard. He said there was a TSB for a drainage hose from the sunroof down the A-pillar and it can get clogged and drain into the car)

I get a call from Keith, the service manager, he said the issue wasn’t with the A-pillar drain, he said that my GF drove the car around, and because of that, water got into the transmission or the transmission ECU or whatever and he said the water line is half way up the door, so it was actually in the flood. (He emailed my pics as well.) He said that right now we have a preliminary estimate of $8,000, and now it’s time to call my insurance. I said to hold off doing anything, and I’ll call. (It was at this point that I decided that this car NEEDS to be totaled)

I called my insurance, and they said they were backed up, and I said, well, I get in tomorrow, and I am deathly allergic to mold, and I tried to BS as much as I could over the phone to make them try to push a total. The person didn’t care TOO much, and he said that an adjuster would come out in the next few days, and I asked if the adjuster could come AFTER Friday and to call me before he/she came out because I was destined to arrive Friday night and I wanted to be there when they gave the estimate.

When my gf picked me up she wouldn’t hug me because she thought I was pissed off because she was the reason my car got totaled, LOL!!! (But I truly wasn’t)

So, I go check out the car, I first notice that there is water on the inside of the windshield, I needed interior wipers, LOL!!!

It still had a lot of water in it, ALL MY .40cal bullets are GONE!!! ;-(

The spare tire had water to the brim as well and I saw that where the auxiliary power outlet was, had rusted and there was a waterline on all the seats. The headliner had water and the radio had water as well.

Video of the death:

I get a call from the adjuster saying that the car was declared a total loss, and I was confused for a second, LOL. He said, “I’m not supposed to tell you, but once someone calls you and gives you an offer on your car, you have TEN DAYS to find a new car before we stop paying for your rental car. So start looking NOW.”
BITCHIN’!!! I started going to TOWN looking for cars, but I didn’t have a payout figure. I assumed $20k… The trade in value at the time was around $19k and the CPO retail was $26k (GOD KNOWS WHY, because you could buy a base model for $26 if it was they had the correct incentives)

So I started looking. Maximas had gone up in price like a SOB, no more $20k base used ones (this is where I got some STUPID things from dealerships Most Stupid Thing Heard From a Nissan Dealer) And luckily they guy let me test drive a used 370Z too, but I needed to get an estimate of how much insurance was going to pay me.

I also call Charles and said, “Well Charles… It looks like my brake problems are fixed, the car is gone, declared a total loss.” And we both share a laugh (no homo.) And he says, “Well, sorry to see your car go, and sorry it caused you so many headaches.” I laughed and said, “Well, hopefully its for the best, and as much as I enjoy talking to you, I hope to never talk to you again about any Nissan problems!” And we both laughed, I asked where I can send him a gift for being such an awesome guy.