The water didn't look that deep, there's no indication of depth at all or that there's a drop that falls off the sides so close to the road edge, or that when the waters high up that the road actually turns slightly, so following the line of the road actually takes you off the ford! It's a ford on a road .. we'd already been through another ford on a green lane, that looked worse but was way shallower further upstream ..
The lady of the house t'other side came out and we had a long chat .. they've been campaigning for depth gauges and 'proper' signage about the state of the ford for many years, and always expect it when it is flooding ..It was a far worse bed in this ford than the one on the green lane .. but was so innocuous today you wouldn't believe it!
Not worried about the lappy, it was an old one only used for laning .. it had memory map, maps and a couple of pc satnavs on it .. all software is backed up at least three times and I'm already sorting another out .. I'll just break this one and weigh the bits in with all the others I do ..