Many years ago, on the same club event, we had to ford water running over the road and about five miles later my 124 spider totally destroyed it's clutch. To add insult, I was told later that some of us had taken a wrong turn on the drive and shouldn't have driven on that flooded road.
Even to this day sometimes folks will ask me "hey, isn't this were you had to bail on your spider?" Todd, maybe you need to install air shocks on your X for water events.