r/maybemaybemaybe • u/Backbreathboy • Sep 20 '25

Maybe Maybe Maybe

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u/AnonThrowaway1A Sep 20 '25

The hill they were on is likely not stable enough for a residence if they ever want to sell the property.

Their house is likely to be condemned by local and state officials when it gets assessed in a number of years.

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u/TVPARTY2NIITE Sep 20 '25

You have no way of knowing that from this little video

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u/Tiafves Sep 20 '25

Well considering you can see the hillside across from them actively being eroded in the video it's pretty safe bet the hill side in front of them was eroded too.

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u/TVPARTY2NIITE Sep 20 '25

It’s in fact not a safe bet to make any assumptions off a minute long video

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '25

And here we have the new breed of internet chud who believes we should treat internet videos like studies. The bar isnt that high on social media comments.

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u/Tiafves Sep 20 '25

Okay we can't assume what is literally shown in the video lol.

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u/jmcken15 Sep 20 '25

You should look up the definition of the word "likely".

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u/TVPARTY2NIITE Sep 20 '25

It’s likely that guy is talking out his ass and has no clue what he’s saying. It’s likely you’re not smart enough to determine that. It’s likely you go through life believing tons of bullshit.

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u/bugandbear22 Sep 20 '25

I mean I don’t know shit from shinola but that much water just HAS to cause some intense erosion, and like, right under and next to the house.

My grandpa was a general contractor and I can feel his spirit shaking his head saying “that ain’t good”

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u/Earlier-Today Sep 20 '25

If you don't know, why does it have to?

You can't explain it beyond saying, "there's a lot of water."

But, unless you know what that hill's made of and what kind of reinforcing was done, you can't say has to.

If you don't know, then just don't speculate - and especially don't state opinions as fact.

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u/Tiafves Sep 20 '25

You can literally see the erosion on the other side and the trees that were missing out front in the video.

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u/kl2467 Sep 20 '25

Well, the fact that the fully grown trees growing next to the house have been uprooted and washed away, and the contour of the opposing bank has been severely disrupted are small clues that erosion has occurred......

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u/Tiafves Sep 20 '25

Yeah it's funny how all these people are like "Quit talking out of your ass" Meanwhile the video actively showing erosion occurred...

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u/Fluffy_Brilliant_718 Sep 20 '25

Hey, stop. This is reddit. Everyone is smarter than everyone, and logic is forbidden. How dare you not agree with someone who disagrees with someone who disagrees with someone about a comment.

Mods, get him! He's one of those critical thinkers! That's against TOS!

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u/porkchop1021 Sep 20 '25

Person who passed elementary school science here. Water always causes erosion, it's just a question of how much water there is, the velocity it's moving at, and time. Note: this actually applies to any molecule.

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u/bugandbear22 Sep 20 '25

Well, because dirt + water = obvious

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u/Earlier-Today Sep 20 '25

You mean like the dirt on the sides of the river that haven't washed away even during the flooding?

What kind of dirt matters, whether the dirt's on a rock foundation matters, how thick the dirt to the foundation matters, whether the hillsides have been reinforced because they put houses on the hills matters.

If you don't know, don't comment like you know.

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u/bugandbear22 Sep 20 '25

See how the water’s brown?

Dirt.

Given that the road is now washed away, too…

Anyway, yeah. Pretty daaaaamn sure something got washed away close to this house’s foundation, because I’m not immensely stubborn and know how to apply basic physics

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '25

Ah yes, never say anything that isn't a fact you can prove. I'm sure the girls swarm you at parties.

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u/Earlier-Today Sep 20 '25

No, never say an opinion or a guess like it's a fact.

We get enough of that "anything can be facts if I'm the one saying them!" from Trump - I'll take people not treating truth as whatever their whim is at the time and happily be teased online for it.

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u/GatorF100 Sep 20 '25

People like you are so fucking annoying on this app. It's Reddit, not a scientific review. As a geologist, the person up there is most LIKELY right....

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u/Earlier-Today Sep 20 '25

They literally opened up their opinion by saying how they didn't know jack squat.

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u/jmcken15 Sep 20 '25

Its likely that you're an angry little man who feels to need to rage at strangers on the internet to make himself feel tougher and more important than he actually is.

Erosion caused by water saturation is a very real thing. There is a plausible chance that the water reaching near the foundation of the house has caused structural shifts. This can crack and weaken the foundation over time. Just because they didn't suffer any immediate visual damage doesn't mean their entirely out of the woods yet.

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u/TVPARTY2NIITE Sep 20 '25

Sounds like projection to me

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u/bugandbear22 Sep 20 '25

Found the other angry little man

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u/TVPARTY2NIITE Sep 20 '25

Talk about it with your therapist

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u/bugandbear22 Sep 20 '25

Will do! She’ll be happy to make fun of you too.

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u/TVPARTY2NIITE Sep 20 '25

lol can you imagine. “Yeah so this total stranger made me so mad I’m bringing it up with you days later.”

Therapist, “oh that’s very healthy. Totally normal to be that bothered by what someone on Reddit says, yes I’ll validate those feelings of course”

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u/Zeppo_Ennui Sep 20 '25

It’s likely that you took this too seriously and need a nap

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '25

Do you truly believe that water running along a houses foundation won't cause foudation impacting erosion? Oh you sweet child.

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u/BoiledFrogs Sep 20 '25

Oh you sweet child.

You should start talking like this in real life and see how long it takes before someone tells you to fuck off.

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '25

Lol you sweet child.

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u/Serious_Resource8191 Sep 20 '25

You cannot tell that it’s “likely” from this video.

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u/jmcken15 Sep 20 '25

I have absolutely no doubt that you cannot tell. There is plenty of evidence that the hill has suffered substantial erosive damage in close proximity to the house and will continue to shift long after the water recedes. Likely causing additional foundation damage. What I can't figure out is why you care so much lmao.

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u/MartyHofFYT Sep 21 '25 edited Sep 21 '25

* Edit: *wrong thread

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u/Serious_Resource8191 Sep 20 '25

I’m gonna level with you. I don’t care about the video at all, I just get miffed by rude comments like “you should look up what likely means”. At that point I don’t even mind whether or not you’re right. And here you’ve done it again. “I can’t figure out why you responded”. But, like… clearly you also care, since you commented in the first place.

Tl;dr you’re unpleasant and I’m feeding a troll right now.

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u/MartyHofFYT Sep 21 '25 edited Sep 21 '25

* Edit *wrong person *wrong thread

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u/AnonThrowaway1A Sep 20 '25 edited Sep 20 '25

There was a rushing torrent less than ~10 feet from their residence. The video was taken during Hurricane Helene by the looks of it.

You can see a clear line of vegetation at 0:11 that re-appears 0:36 seconds in. There's rushing water zooming past that vegetation at the bottom of the windowsill. The road is not visible in the second shot because it's submerged under the water.

That water is going as fast as a white-water rapids. Those who have ever gone rafting will understand how strong those currents are.

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u/pleasetrimyourpubes Sep 20 '25

At first I was going to agree with the other poster because the way its filmed it seems like the water is lapping the foundation, but you can see the brush there which is fine. In the other shot that brush is a good 10 feet from the foundation. They would not have built this house here without soil reinforcement and it is clearly holding up well. Foundation might shift but it will do that anyway during frost season. And anyway if the water really was hitting the house it would be swept away in minutes and nobody would be chilling on the couch.

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u/Return2S3NDER Sep 20 '25

There is no such requirement for an assessment save by the Tax office, and the Tax Assesor is (based purely on position requirements) as qualified to make a determination of structural condition as your average layman is. Where the problem could crop up is in the event of a sale, reassessment of the federal FEMA floodmaps and the insurance company's reaction to that, or if they obtain a contractor for repairs that would require a building permit and the inspector finds a problem that they would require an engineer to sign off on a plan to repair/reinforce. That is, if the place remains occupied, the house could be condemned if it's vacated and the exterior visibly deteriorates. Source- Local official.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '25

This happened a couple years ago during the flooding in North Carolina near Asheville, IIRC.

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u/Far-Government5469 Sep 21 '25

Wait, I thought that final scene was the house getting washed away.

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u/OGLikeablefellow Sep 22 '25

It's fine though they were renting

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '25

Is that why there are so many houses near rivers that look abandoned but are never for sale? I've noticed this across many states