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MadocAbOwain
Noah Fence? None Taken.
AlroyeWiesell
Found the dutch person
Mormster
This is from the 2011 Floods BTW
schleppelthebogeyman
Armourhotdog
So he must have industrial drainage to keep it from just filling up like a pond in the rain?
InTheNextLifeWhenWeAreBothCats
I really need the sauce on this!
btraqnasty
I would have moved
TacoFox
Its Louisiana, floods are the least of their worries.
thatsLMFB
As of recently, floods are our top worry.
blabyra
And what happends if it rains a lot??
bryronic
This man IS an island.
goodgodlemon30
How do they get in and out normally
FruitsmakemeToots
Now what if it rains and his house floods but nothing else does
wildcatfan4life
This idea probably could have saved Noah a little time.
ddpv
If you build the entire house on raised land, then you don't have to worry about the water breaking through. NOOB! The Dutch.
Xenocide18
Looks like the house from interstellar..
wannasee
New Orleans is 6 feet below sea level... This is not feasible unless ya wanna just go ahead and flood your house.
TotalSmartAss
Hey, it's that guy's driveway from the Jeep commercial
Trovaxo
Funny, that's exactly how New Orleans is landscaped
PookieHOS
This isn't real is it?
mizcs
Thats pretty much just a mini version of The Netherlands
GnomeTalmbout
You should buy a boat.
mnmprincess
Can someone tell me what the poop shaped thing is????
sr22e
it's a clump of trees or a propane tank, not sure which item you perceive is shaped like poo
mnmprincess
Thanks guys. I don't know what I would do with out you.
CinnamonBunny
Wouldn't it be easier just to move?
Hailtheprince
Not anymore
porygon17
You underestimate rednecks
CinnamonBunny
You mean overestimate?
jbulldozer
But how did the rain not turn it into a pool?
ROBOTvsMAN
The lawn was very, very thirsty.
GH05TY
Option A: the water was pumped out through or over the walls. Option B: the rain fell upriver from the house. Option C: Both.
Colenelshitpostermcgee
Biblical figures hate him
TotalSmartAss
Noah they don't
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Colenelshitpostermcgee
It's unbrieable
Kajo522
"HOAs HATE him!"
byerss
HOAs hate everyone!
ScaredScorpion
What a coincidence, everyone hates HOAs
kidswat
Instant water front property and no one to ruin it for you.
KtownBCguy
I was thinking the same thing. 360 degree beachfront living
ihaveneverseenmybutt
aShogunNamedMarcus
Sure this trick protects your home from flood waters, but now gives potential home invaders full defilade from your mounted machinegun fire
GueClaro
Where the fuck do you live?!
G1AC0M0
Not if that shit's mounted on the roof, yo
DeltaArcAngel
This quote is why i live imgur.
TheRenegadeSpud
I love finding the other vets on imgur.
bond100
Which is why the entire thing is covered in claymores
theonlythingicouldthinkof
However, they have to skyline themselves in order to attack on foot, and that enfilade at close range would be a hell of a killzone
valen00
duh, defend the wall, fallback to the house, detonate the claymores you buried, set the sentry guns, take the escape tunnel out the back
DSPArmory
Why would you bury a claymore......wtf
DeckhandAdmiral
Goddamn scrubs. Prolly had to actually read the "towards enemy".
valen00
so the baddies don't see them? I didn't say 6 ft deep
MrPoopyDickButt
They will be afterward though, or what's left of em.
valen00
So will the baddies.... whats left of em
DjNeHi
Pretty sure there was an interview with this guy that went like "What do you see when you look out the window?" "Dirt."
CleanLeQueefer
Dirt. Joe Dirt.
DrJigglePhysics
I imagined Scruffy (the janitor) saying "Dirt". Made it awesome.
mithiwithi
Had it been me: "It's not what I see, it's what I don't see." "Which is?" "Water up to my windowsills."
majortool
At least he has windows.
SBuddy99
What do you see? A not destroyed house
GenesisMachines
Those earthworks look more expensive than the building.
YouJustGotRickRolled
There actually was lol - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXMskKTw3Bc
Overpots
3 years later abs you got me this is even better ?
silentUpvotes
I like you
JNC998
*Dry dirt
RoyBattysDove
WarpHype
wet mud
twentyfourcharacterslong
Wouldn't heavy rain just fill it up? Literally Turing it into a pond
mithiwithi
Not if it doesn't rain directly in, AND as long as there's a lot of clay in the berms and the soil underneath.
PoweredbyOSengine
As I recall, this was Katrina. They had several days to plan and most of the water was not rainfall, it was storm surge and failed levees.
RJWaters
most of the time this is from water from miles of rain collecting in a river then all overflowing at once downstream
b0bWilson09
Water pump...
twentyfourcharacterslong
It took my building a 1200 HP diesel water pump running 4 days to pump water out a single lower level of a parking garage in Houston.
HairytheSheep
Thats not even close to a good comparison
naturalorang3
If you've got enough equipment to build a berm of dirt that large I imagine you have a couple of large pumps as well.
GamesDean
No more than a farm sitting out in an ordinary field. The water you see is probably from a nearby river overflowing.
twentyfourcharacterslong
Right, but there is no run off in a situation like that. Just about any amount of rain would start to fill as the ground became saturated.
biolologist
Not necessarily. Depends on how high the water table is.
ImgurCouncilOfLlamas
In Louisiana we can't even have basements without them being flooded. That's how high the water table is.
twentyfourcharacterslong
The water table is basically 0 in a flood plain doing a flood...
jesuischarliehebdo
I wonder how much more work it would have been to lift the house and build a small hill under it.
AngelsinmyMouthfield
I wonder how much it would cost you to shut your heathen mouth.
EagleEye3x3
Then he'd have a jacked up yard too
percivaldanvers
But this way if you put a palisade around the rim you can keep out roving bands of Visigoths more easily.
WhatFuckingNameIsntTaken
But now he can add a fence and towers for the zombie apocalypse
Thordis424
they used to do that in the west of the Netherlands before we blocked of the ocean at the western coastline.
frankbrodie
Didn't they build all the houses in Singapore on stilts as far back as the 60's/70's because of the land/water situation?
Junktrunkjunkie
I didn't see any stilts in modern Singapore. There were plenty in Malaysia. Singapore has a great canal/gutter system for floods.
GnosisCarmot
Or retrofit the house with flotation secured to pilings. (it has been done before)
PuckinFissed
Sauce?
SlickLily
A whole lot. This ring he built just takes a couple hours on a piece of equipment if you know what you're doing
FrancisWithWolves
About tree fiddy
duhnupac
Ill take "how many bazillions did lt cost?" for tree fiddy
Zokathra
Plot twist: that's a hole the owner dug and sinked his house into.
scabab
that donstn amke snese
Uskaanax
Mods are asleep, post sinks.
tibetansandfox
i dont know why but this comment is the most hilarious shit ive read all day
jesuischarliehebdo
Glad to hear. It's really odd that a nice reply gets down votes. I will find an old an silly comment of yours and up vote.
tibetansandfox
hm true, weird downvotes. thanks friend
seeklynx
Would have needed a permit
asbofive
Lol still funny 12 hours later
LariCheltsy
Ugh...
easybrz
You don't need a permit when you live on a farm. Might have insurance issues but that depends on your company.
TheMightyMoto
True, but it would of been a one time solution. The wall has a higher cost of upkeep.
olds97lss
Yeah, but a house on a hill doesn't have a cool motocross ramp all around it like this one when it's not flooded.
pilotperson
What's better is that it's -still- a cool motocross ramp even when there's a flood outside.
MischievousMagpie
Lots more, I've lived in flood planes and also lifted my house, a bunch of dirt and a rental skid steer are MUCH CHEEPER!
DOWNVOTEALLEMOJIS
Cheep cheep cheep said the baby birdie
ifounditunderthere
Skid steer? That would take a month and about $4k, dozer 8 hrs....and about $3.50...
NulHeart
God dammit Loch Ness Monster
COOL69GUY420ZONE
A ridiculous amount of time and money goes into that. The footings alone would bankrupt you before they got the first hundred feet in
CaffeineManic
You think the footings, or pilings, would need to be one hundred feet deep? That seems high, but I'm not that kind of structural engineer.
COOL69GUY420ZONE
Collectively. Roughly 50 feet per. So you drive two in and you've got 100 feet. Naam sayn?
salazarsandwich
I don't think you would need 50ft footings.
COOL69GUY420ZONE
In a flood zone? Good luck.