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I spent the day with the Wilton Fire Protection District. They are a Volunteer Fire Department and they say they respond to about one call on average a night. But on New Year's Eve they had over 20 calls just from people stranded in floods. So I went out to Dillard Rd. the area where they are still recovering cars. You just saw a lot of people getting off of 99 trying to get through. They came to Dillard Road and that's where they got stuck. They would just pull off Hwy. 99 trying to get out their phones would tell them. This is the way to get around the road closure and they would just come off into the floodwater day of the event of the flooding. Dozens and dozens of rescues in the in the floodwater, just in this area alone. In this area alone. And there were several cars that had went through, so it looked like it was safe for me to go through. The car stalled, and it was like it felt like it was actually floating here. So the car filled up within about 10 minutes. It got up to the