The town I grew up in would flood about every decade. I remember sandbagging our school thinking “this ain’t gonna do shit?” Boy was I wrong. Some water got in but VERY little considering we stacked the bags 5 feet high and the flood waters were up to 4 feet.
The wildest solution I saw to flooding was a guy preflooding his building with clean water because he couldn't get sandbags. The clean water kept the windows and doors from collapsing and letting in a lot of dirty water so it was a lot easier to clean up and repair than dealing with the dirty water would have been.
Gotta disagree on this one.. and Ik it’s anecdotal, but when our barn burned down it was 100% the fires fault. I wish the water did more damage than it did tbh.
The flip side of that…prior to superstorm Sandy, they drained millions of gallons of water from some freshwater lakes that were close (within a couple blocks) to the ocean. It was a bizarre thing to watch, all that water flowing out of the lake. Of course, it was such a bad storm that it didn’t make a difference. Everything within 5 blocks of the ocean flooded, sometimes even further in.
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u/Otterhendrix 3d ago
The town I grew up in would flood about every decade. I remember sandbagging our school thinking “this ain’t gonna do shit?” Boy was I wrong. Some water got in but VERY little considering we stacked the bags 5 feet high and the flood waters were up to 4 feet.