The Flood

The Flood is the thirty-second episode of Sodor High School: Thomas and Friends Tales.
==Synopsis==
A massive storm causes all kinds of problems on the Island of Sodor.
==Plot==
In summer, the weather can either be bright, sunny and warm, or stormy with varying levels of longetivity. The latter results in worrying people, like those who live along the route of the Ffarquhar Branch line as some of their towns have been known to flood in the past. At one point when Percy was just a little boy, he had to drive a bus full of people home during such a time. Since then, the ground does get wet, but it's never really flooded.
One beautiful day. Thomas, his sisters and Emily are at the beach enjoying the weather. As Emily discusses her life before she moved out of her home, she admits she would like for her life to be like Thomas'. He says that is happening so long as Diesel 10 is free and once he's caught, Emily will go back to her old life and won't need him and their friends anymore, which she denies as she needs them in her life. She then remembers the nightmare she had of Diesel 10 and says to herself it can't happen and won't if she has anything to say about it.
At that moment, Leo arrives holding a volleyball hoping to find someone to play a game with him. He spots Emily resting and warns her and Thomas that he saw a red sky that morning, which is an omen for bad weather later in the day. He then invites Emily to play volleyball and she accepts. Annie and Clarabel, seeing the exchange, tell Thomas to not let his girlfriend go off with someone else. Thomas reminds them that he and Emily are just friends and she's free to spend time with other people without him always being around her. However, his sisters know he has feelings for her, but he refuses to admit them as he fears once she returns home, she'll forget about their friendship, meaning he doesn't want to take any chances.
By mid-afternoon, dark clouds begin to appear in the sky just as Leo predicted. As a result, Thomas and the girls barely manage to return home before it starts raining. Fifty minutes later, it's pouring down hard and all over Sodor, floods occur forcing people to evacuate their homes while mayors of several towns call upon citizens to assist with building flood walls. On the Ffarquhar branch line, Daisy was riding home on the line's only Diesel railcar which had been held up at the junction due to concerns that the line would get flooded.
Once reports come in that the line has been cleared, it sets off and while Daisy is relieved, the other passengers and the driver are more worried. They're right to be, as the lazy stationmaster who sent the all-clear had only reported on whether the station was flooded from outside his office window, completely oblivious to the section of track before his station that had water high enough to reach an engine's bufferbeam. By the time the railcar reaches the track, it's too late to stop and it splashed into the water, which floods the railcar's engine. The crew is unable to call for help since signals can't get through and to make matters worse, Daisy finds that snakes are getting into the railcar.
Back at Ffarquhar, Emily and the Brighton siblings watch everything on television as it happens. After seeing a report of Great Waterton flooding following an evacuation, the power goes out and Thomas sees that a lightning bolt hit an electric post and caused a blackout while Emily finds a battery-operated lantern. Annie goes down to the basement to gather some radios to listen to the weather report as someone knocks on the door. Thomas opens it to find Leo, who informs everyone that the mayor has called for any assistance in building a flood wall. Once Annie rejoins them and they're all in their rain gear, the five teenagers head to town.
Back in the diesel railcar, the water level is still rising as Daisy fumes over her new shoes getting wet while the driver is unable to get rid of the snakes since they keep coming back. Another passenger, a girl named Millie who recently moved to Sodor, suggests getting out through the rooftop, but the driver says there's nothing to get anybody up there.
In Ffarquhar, the flood wall is completed as Daisy's parents as the teenagers if they've seen their daughter but are told they haven't. The stationmaster figures out she's on the diesel railcar and finds he can't contact the driver, and being unwilling to stand by and do nothing, Thomas suggests using Jim and Clyde's E2 tank engine to get through the flooded track on account of its high running board. Jim and Clyde return a few minutes later with their engine and a brake van, and while Annie and Clarabel remain at the station, Thomas, Emily, Percy, Leo, Toby, and Mavis set off with the E2 crew.
Travelling along the branch line, the teenagers are stunned by how flooded the countryside is. When they reach the railcar, they find the water has flooded it up to the windows with no way of getting to them. After confirming Daisy's among the trapped passengers (on account of her complaining about her 'swerves'), Emily spots some police cars on the road and blasts an S.O.S. on the whistle to get their attention. The police set to work blowing up the rafts they had, and Thomas, Percy, and Leo offer their assistance getting the passengers out while Toby and the girls comfort them in the brake van. At five passengers at a time, the rescue operation goes well until Daisy refuses to remove her high heels despite the risk of popping the boat. As such, Thomas' raft leave her behind and when Percy's comes around, Daisy gives in and does what she's told.
By nightfall, the rescue operation is completed and the E2 returns to Ffarquhar where the teens were met with cheers from everyone. Millie thanks them, as does Daisy who claims she changed her mind about removing her shoes because of her not wanting to get her feet wet rather than the snakes. Percy then scares her by saying a snake followed her home, amusing everyone with Emily cheering up Daisy by saying she should be glad everyone's safe now.
The rain ends at nine that evening, but it takes weeks for towns and cities to get rid of the floodwater. Luckily despite the water damage, no one was hurt.
==Characters==
* Thomas 
* Emily 
* Percy 
* Leo 
* Toby 
* Annie and Clarabel 
* Clyde and Jim 
* Daisy 
* Millie (Debut)
* The Cammell family
** Mr. Cammell (Debut)
** Mrs. Cammell (Debut)
* Mavis (does not speak)
* Sir Topham Hatt (cameo)
* Lady Hatt (cameo)
* Diesel 10 (mentioned)
* Duck (mentioned)
==Cast==
==Trivia==
* This episode was based on a real life event in Toronto, Ontario, that occurred in 2013 in which a train was stranded on flooded tracks and its passengers weren't rescued until 1 AM in the morning.
* Following the rescue, the Ffarquhar stationmaster makes a nod to "Thomas & Friends" by saying if the kids were engines, they'd have been "really useful"; Percy scoffs at the idea.
== Goofs ==
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