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Posted: 11/28/2018 5:29:30 PM EDT
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Nope
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Posted: 11/28/2018 6:11:15 PM EDT
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Flood Zone preparation idea #1 move to higher ground.
My back is killing me just watching that video. |
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Posted: 11/28/2018 10:35:53 PM EDT
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Flood Zone preparation idea #1 move to higher ground. My back is killing me just watching that video. |
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Posted: 11/29/2018 7:19:47 AM EDT
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Posted: 11/29/2018 12:03:53 PM EDT
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A desire to never be flooded is what made me decide to build in a location where it's impossible to ever get flooded. We have been through some flooding in the area already and even our basement is bone dry....and we don't have or need a sump pump either.
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Posted: 11/29/2018 6:56:21 PM EDT
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A desire to never be flooded is what made me decide to build in a location where it's impossible to ever get flooded. We have been through some flooding in the area already and even our basement is bone dry....and we don't have or need a sump pump either. We live on a hill with a daylight drain for the foundation. If it ever looks like we are about to flood I should have ark 2.0 at least half done by that time. |
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Posted: 11/29/2018 7:18:24 PM EDT
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Posted: 11/30/2018 10:11:57 AM EDT
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Frankly, I have lived through a bunch of Hurricanes and flooding and NEVER seen sandbags do much good at all.
As always, YMMV |
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Posted: 11/30/2018 10:46:12 AM EDT
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Frankly, I have lived through a bunch of Hurricanes and flooding and NEVER seen sandbags do much good at all. As always, YMMV I've never loved where they were needed, so I don't know. |
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Posted: 11/30/2018 1:52:01 PM EDT
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I thought sand bags were to hold up a tarp so you could pump water faster than it seeps in? I've never loved where they were needed, so I don't know. That being said, after a 10 year string that saw 3 devastating floods in my home-town, one of the guys in the flood zone put a concrete flood wall around 3-1/2 sides of his yard as well as drainage draining into a pumping pit. This way, if/when the flood comes he only has to have enough sand-bags to build about 50 feet of wall and he can pump the water from a single centralized pumping point, not several low-points around the house. |
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Posted: 12/1/2018 12:17:54 AM EDT
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I saw a system online that I think was first used in the flooding in Houston. It was a rubber bladder that you filled with water before flooding. The bladder went around the house and held back the flood waters. Not cheap but neither is flooding.
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Posted: 12/23/2018 2:40:42 PM EDT
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A guy I know had one of these - the "whole house barrier system" and tried to use it during Harvey. I think the barrier was 4-5 feet high. They had 8 feet of floodwater - house was totaled (for 2nd or 3rd time).
They gave up after Harvey and didn't rebuild there. Moral of the story - these are good and do work for "minor" flooding - when the bigger floods (ie, Harvey in Houston) come, only way to avoid being flooded....is to not live where it's likely (ie, elevated WELL outside 100 year floodplains). |
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Posted: 12/23/2018 4:20:24 PM EDT
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A guy I know had one of these - the "whole house barrier system" and tried to use it during Harvey. I think the barrier was 4-5 feet high. They had 8 feet of floodwater - house was totaled (for 2nd or 3rd time). They gave up after Harvey and didn't rebuild there. Moral of the story - these are good and do work for "minor" flooding - when the bigger floods (ie, Harvey in Houston) come, only way to avoid being flooded....is to not live where it's likely (ie, elevated WELL outside 100 year floodplains). No matter where I was buying or building, I'd be looking at flood maps and how well the drainage was set up. I have seen the misery brought on by ones home flooding and I vowed a long time ago that would never be me. I do think those flood barriers are very neat....but clearly they can only provide a barrier up to their height limit. Once the flood waters exceed that, then they are useless. |
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Posted: 12/23/2018 9:46:20 PM EDT
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I saw a system online that I think was first used in the flooding in Houston. It was a rubber bladder that you filled with water before flooding. The bladder went around the house and held back the flood waters. Not cheap but neither is flooding. https://cdn0.wideopencountry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/aqua-dam-793x526.jpg |
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Posted: 12/26/2018 8:27:50 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: How are those stored during normal weather? |
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Posted: 12/26/2018 11:20:36 AM EDT
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They are folded / rolled up Quote HistoryQuoted:
Quoted: How are those stored during normal weather? |
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Posted: 12/26/2018 12:10:31 PM EDT
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We had flooding in my county late summer, mind you we are next to Lake Michigan, on high ground with drainage and infrastructure.
For example my church is 800ft above sea level, on a huge hill, and a 2 miles from the lake, the dummy’s had piss poor flood insurance from a synod insurer.... $200k in damage because it wasn’t drained properly combined with a power outage. Sadly I missed the cleanup and the entire “inside scoop” due to work, BUT I did see excavators tearing out the oldish(20 yr old small building) drainage that lead to the street/hill Someone dropped the ball. Hard lesson learned. My point is it would be the last place you would look at and think “flooding” Piss poor maintenance and planning crushed us bad. Check your drainage. |
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Posted: 12/26/2018 12:32:47 PM EDT
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I live in a flood zone. Talk about major suckage.
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Posted: 1/9/2019 10:16:40 PM EDT
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Nice to know and I'm glad I on a hillside. The "river" is a couple hundred feet below me.
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Posted: 1/10/2019 8:16:20 PM EDT
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Nice to know and I'm glad I on a hillside. The "river" is a couple hundred feet below me. |
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Posted: 1/12/2019 6:44:13 PM EDT
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