Bad-ass homeowners make huge damns to protect their homes

[Doppel]

Very cool pics within. For example:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...sidents-build-homemade-dams-saves-houses.html

 

[thescreensavers]

woops

Must suck to put all that work into that, and then to fail

 

[CallMeJoe]

Bad-ass homeowners make huge damns to protect their homes

Whom did they damn, and how did that protect their homes?

 

[wuliheron]

Whom did they damn, and how did that protect their homes?

The insurance companies when they paid the bills.

 

[Howard]

woops

Must suck to put all that work into that, and then to fail

haha

 

[Lemon law]

The real victors are the Insurance companies who collect flood insurance premiums and then find escape clauses to not pay for the damages.

But this just part of life on the Missouri and Mississippi rivers, hell the 1916 floods were far worse than what we have today.

What fools and Macaroons, if you don't want to get flooded out, don't build your house on a flood plain stooge.

 

[charrison]

The real victors are the Insurance companies who collect flood insurance premiums and then find escape clauses to not pay for the damages.

But this just part of life on the Missouri and Mississippi rivers, hell the 1916 floods were far worse than what we have today.

What fools and Macaroons, if you don't want to get flooded out, don't build your house on a flood plain stooge.

Flood insurance is pretty much backed by the federal govt right? There was an interesting article about that recently, where the govt should be buying property and relocating families. Instead they continue to pay flood damages on the same dwelling, flood after flood.

 

[Zebo]

People are stupid. need concrete and a moisture barrier underneath to stem tide. better yet why not elevate pad 10 ft before construction in a flood plain...it's pretty cheap to do ~$2000

Prior proper planning prevents piss poor performance.

 

[charrison]

People are stupid. need concrete and a moisture barrier underneath to stem tide. better yet why not elevate pad 10 ft before construction in a flood plain...it's pretty cheap to do ~$2000

Prior proper planning prevents piss poor performance.

Yeah but why spend the $2k when the govt will keep paying to fix the place up. Rational decisions based on irrational rules.

 

[Zebo]

Well I assume by building the dam they were looking to protect their asset rather than cash in on uncle sugar. Just suggesting better alternatives than futility they were engaged in.

 

[charrison]

Well I assume by building the dam they were looking to protect their asset rather than cash in on uncle sugar. Just suggesting better alternatives than futility they were engaged in.

I wont disagree with that.

 

[Engineer]

haha

As someone who watch his childhood home sway back and forth in the flooding river, being held only by the electric lines until they broke, I'm not sure what is funny about someone's home that is flooded.

Maybe something can happen to your home someday and someone on the internet can laugh at it....

 

[Nebor]

Well I assume by building the dam they were looking to protect their asset rather than cash in on uncle sugar. Just suggesting better alternatives than futility they were engaged in.

A few people that have incorporated pumps into their homemade levies look poised to weather this flood. Though most of them attempted to include some kind of moisture barrier too.

 

[Howard]

As someone who watch his childhood home sway back and forth in the flooding river, being held only by the electric lines until they broke, I'm not sure what is funny about someone's home that is flooded.

Maybe something can happen to your home someday and someone on the internet can laugh at it....

There'll always be something you're not supposed to laugh at because it was a very real horror for someone else.

 

[Engineer]

There'll always be something you're not supposed to laugh at because it was a very real horror for someone else.

Wouldn't have mattered if it was a horror to me or not, it was a douche move to laugh at someone's home getting flooded, levee broken or not.

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

woops

Must suck to put all that work into that, and then to fail

"Alrighty... only a few more bags and then we're finis... Aw shit!"

 

[Howard]

Wouldn't have mattered if it was a horror to me or not, it was a douche move to laugh at someone's home getting flooded, levee broken or not.

It doesn't hurt him. And you better start going after all the people who poke fun at the Holocaust too.

 

[Engineer]

It doesn't hurt him. And you better start going after all the people who poke fun at the Holocaust too.

I don't have to go after anyone and it was still a douche move.

 

[Lemon law]

People who build their homes on flood plains will always pay the price in even the short term end. To try to deny that fact is bad public policy in trying to deny reality.

Its gets a little more complex when we allow people to build their homes in Earthquake Zones. How much longer can LA and San Fransisco escape the big earth quake that must be coming?

But its the big difference between floods and earth quakes, a big earthquake may grant a region maybe 100 years of future geological stability, but floods buy a region no such guarantees that a even bigger flood might occur the very next year.