Video: T-Rex Spotted Kayaking Through Storm-Ravaged Michigan Neighborhood

MIDLAND, MI — When life gives you a psycho summer storm that floods your basement and turns the streets of your neighborhood into a network of knee-deep riverbeds, might as well do like Michigan dad Travis Spry: Pull your yellow dad kayak out of storage, throw on your most hilarious dad costume (in this case, one of those inflatable T-Rex suits currently taking America, and the internet, by storm) and show nature (and the kids!) who's boss.

"Just a regular old Friday afternoon," Spry's wife, Katrina, says in a video she posted to Facebook of the June 23 suburban adventure.

"Little faster there, T-Rex," she prods her husband. To which he replies, in peak dad form: "This is as fast as T-Rex goes."

Even the family dog, Brady, got in on the action.

The Michigan town of Midland, located around an hour north of Flint near the shores of Lake Huron, was hit particularly hard by the remnants of Tropical Storm Cindy as it surged up the central U.S. late last week.

"If you're from the Midland area, you remember the flood of '86," city official Selina Tisdale told the local paper as the storm approached. "This very easily could be one of the biggest overland flooding events of our community." Accordingly, a state of emergency was declared throughout much of Michigan.

Footage of the ensuing floods showed vehicles stranded on highways and in parking lots; homes and yards inundated by muddy water; and more than one shocked resident navigating the wreckage by boat.

But none could compare, of course, to the Midland dad in the yellow kayak and T-Rex suit.

Images via Katrina Spry/Facebook