slowmachine
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- Mike
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- New Hampshire
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- 2015 Jeep Wrangler, waiting for a Ranger PHEV
Springtime in the Arabian desert brings heavy rain (even grass that supports sheep grazing, to my surprise) and the ground can be saturated many feet below the surface. At the surface, the sun creates a dry crust that can be only inches thick. It was like a train wreck, running in slow motion, but stupidly moving forward nonetheless. You could see a wave of the surface crust building up in front of the truck, and us bystanders were screaming and waving to the driver to keep going. Unfortunately, he stopped, and all six wheels broke through the surface crust, at which point he gave it full throttle and buried the truck to the frame. It took a wrecker and another MTVR, end-to-end, to slowly drag the stuck vehicle forward, tires spinning, until it reached something solid below the surface and gained some traction. I've never seen mud like that before or since. It was like thick drywall compound.
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