For one Irving police officer, drastic times called for drastic measures.
During Wednesday's morning commute, water starting building up along westbound 183 just before DFW Airport.
Ofc. Mike Gibbs was among those who responded to the scene, and he learned that there were a couple storm drains that were clogged.
Undeterred, he grabbed a piece of rebar that was laying on the roadway and went to work.
"(I) didn't really put too much thought into it but started taking off gear and equipment and said well, the only way we're going to solve this is by wading out there to see where these drains are actually at," Ofc. Gibbs says.
The water on the roadway was getting pretty deep.
"(It) definitely was up and over the knees," says Ofc. Gibbs, "not quite to the waist but about mid-thigh when I was first getting out there."
Gibbs found the storm drains; and using that piece of rebar, he cleared the debris that was clogging them, and the water started receding.
"It looked like a giant toilet bowl," Gibbs says. "By the time the drains were unclogged, it cleared out very very quickly."
While the roadway was soon cleared of water, the same could not be said for Gibbs.
"Nothing on me was waterproof at all; but by the end of everything, I was completely soaked," Gibbs says. "My partner had to help me get my motorcycle boots off that were full of water; and as we are getting yanked off my feet, we poured out just buckets of water from the boots."