Originally Posted by
DVPGSR
Unless you plan on driving your car into a lake you are going to be fine with a CAI. I drove from Syracuse to Albany in pouring rain, a 2 hour drive, and was fine, and when we had the flooding last spring here in the northern Boston area I just stayed out of the way of larger puddles and waded through the ones I could not miss slowly and nothing happened.
You're probably lucky because there are people who have driven through shallow puddles and bent rods.