We take certain things as given. Roads, for example, are made for driving in. Even riding motorcycles or bicycles.

But changing weather has a way of throwing curveballs at us, and when it does, some people find other uses for roadways. Like this guy, riding a jet ski on the street.

Uploaded to Instagram (and presented here for your amusement) is video of a guy riding through the street on a Kawasaki 550 – the kind of standup personal watercraft popularized in the 1980s. He hasn’t put it on wheels or otherwise modified it for use on dry land – the weather in California took care of that for him.

Apparently this past Sunday saw massive rainfalls in Orange County, California, where this video was captured on Yale Avenue in Fullerton. So an eight-inch gutter on the side of the road turned into a river deep enough for the watercraft (which draws minimal draft) to zoom along, apparently without bottoming out and scraping the hull, small as it is.

Mind you, this isn’t some ordinary fella who just happens to have a personal watercraft in the garage. The gentleman depicted in the video is one two-time World Motosurf champion Mark Gomez, who apparently loves what he does for a living.

In case you were wondering (as we were), while the sit-down style has emerged more popular, Kawasaki still makes stand-up jet skis like the kind depicted in this video. The current SX-R measures all nearly nine feet) long, weighs just over 550 pounds, and packs a 1.5-liter inline-four to give it 957 pounds of thrust. That’s a heck of a power-to-weight ratio, retailing for $10k.

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On this stormy Sunday this little 550 screamed up this little 8 inch Yale street gutter river like an angry race gas burning salmon up stream!! After years of my brother Philip Gomez and I waiting for the rainy day stars to align. That was for us both being home and it to be raining just hard enough to get our street gutters to flood enough so I could try to ride up our street in Fullerton, CA. We tried it before but couldn’t get it going..today with the help of the neighborhood I pulled it off! First attempt was filmed from the bottom of the hill, I made it all the way up my street, turned right and had to stop because of a parked car blocking my river! This second attempt got almost as far until I clipped the curb which sent me into the shallow spot toward a soft abrupt stop, but thankfully my chin cushioned the blow haha. Such a rad home experience. #bucketlist #liverideescape #Jetski #Fullerton #kawasaki550 @mystiklubes @worxracing @Hydroturf @dasaracing @tcfreeride @liquidmilitia @jetpilotcompany @bombereyewear @skattrak @jet.renu @700pirate #rickter #ESUArmor @salty_investments #factoryzero #hotproducts #coldfusion #kmgracing #performancefiberglass

A video posted by Mark Gomez (@markgomez137) on Jan 22, 2017 at 7:41pm PST