Best thing is to get the water displaced ASAP, then clean it out properly. If you don't have to start it, dump the water, pull the reed block, and spray a can of water displacement lube through the lower end letting it drain out the bottom. Across the lower rod bearing, main bearing lube holes, everything. This will flush all of the water and most of the silt out, but you will find more when you pull the top end. Yeah, sometimes you have no choice, but firing it up with grit in the lower end is not good. Any moving or disturbed water is usually full of silt, and even clean water through the fliter carries some of the dirt with it. The good thing is that the newer sealed crank bearings take them out of the loop. Mains are usually the first thing to go.
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