I remember driving the levee from Helm to Caruthers? Riverdale? with the river on the left anfd flood waters on the right and no place to turn around and the tank on the folks 41 Chevy near zero but we did have a bottle of Mogan David wine we traded for at a labor camp with a dead Possum.
We made it back to Helm to find the road closed to San Joaquin so we had go to Five points to Manning home. We did not siphon gas from that pump!!! It was the early 50s...