Along the line of rain and ignitions, I grew up on the Texas gulf coast and it was all somewhat marshy, flat, lowland. In putting in streets, they always put them lower than the surrounding terrain and included "storm sewers" to help in removing water.
During the spring the streets would fill with water and the engines back then, in particular flathead 6's and 8's were horrible about flooding out as the flat had had the recess in the water jacket at the plug hole and the ignition wires were bare. Add to that there weren't the fender deflectors modern cars have now which keep front tire splashings out of the engine compartment.
Between that and the distributor problem....can add coil top tracking to that, it wasn't uncommon to see half a dozen stranded cars on the way to or from school. My have times changed!
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