OT - one way to save your home if Mississippi floods...
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OT - one way to save your home if Mississippi floods...
I was reading news on the Mississippi flood - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ouses.html, and came across this photo.
I'll bet someone is glad they had a dozer...
I'll bet someone is glad they had a dozer...
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I can't see a boat in there. Maybe nobody stayed, but if I did I'd hafta have a boat!
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Re: OT - one way to save your home if Mississippi floods...
THAT took a lot of work! I hope his dam holds. After the flood recedes I think I'd leave it and just open up a drive way through it. Be a lot less work next time.
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I think I'd get that house up on skids, move the 'ring' into one pile, and put the house on TOP of it...J Miller wrote: THAT took a lot of work! I hope his dam holds. After the flood recedes I think I'd leave it and just open up a drive way through it. Be a lot less work next time.
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Re: OT - one way to save your home if Mississippi floods...
That is an amazing photo. Those Guinea chickens are living high on the hog on the feed pile. I too hope it holds. We had these type of floods here in 93. Did a lot of sandbagging, knew several folks who lost their homes anyway.
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I too hope that this man's levees hold. He's obviously put some real work into protecting his home, but ....
I'm surprised no one here has commented on what I noticed right away. He's now got shooting berms (at least for pistol shooting) all the way around his place. - DixieBoy
I'm surprised no one here has commented on what I noticed right away. He's now got shooting berms (at least for pistol shooting) all the way around his place. - DixieBoy
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Re: OT - one way to save your home if Mississippi floods...
All that's missing is a giant BBQ grill and a flotilla of friend's boats tied up & lots of ice chests full of refreshments.
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Dozer tracks are still real fresh. Looks like he was just in time...... And yup, next time build the house ON TOP of the dirt pile....
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Wow, thats cool
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So... he's got a $100,000 dike and a $20,000 house,
Gotta keep the chickens safe!
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Pretty cool
but this is a reason almost all of the plantation homes
were built high off the ground,....rivers flood...
but this is a reason almost all of the plantation homes
were built high off the ground,....rivers flood...
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That is neat. I am lucky that even though the Mississippi River is not far from me if I go west or south....I am far enough that I will not see any effects from it.
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Yeah, but these days, everyone on 'high ground' will have to pay taxes or borrow money from China in their grandkid's names, to "bail out" the flood victims...RIHMFIRE wrote:...almost all of the plantation homes
were built high off the ground,....rivers flood...
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Re: OT - one way to save your home if Mississippi floods...
He's got tall berms around his house, but bulldozers don't compact the soil as they place it. They have too light of a footprint. He would have needed a roller, or loaded trucks to drive over it as he placed it. Hopefully the floodwaters recede before they wash his work away.
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The old timers built their shacks on cypress logs. They just floated up when it flooded and went back down with the water. That probably isn't really practical now with plumbing and electric hook ups. My buddy's place got about two feet of water in it and it is 8 feet off the ground. It has been there since the 1950's and never flooded. We will be having a time working on it once the water goes down to 44.5 feet. I imagine we will have quite a snake shoot over there. Probably be headed to the chiro after all the stoop work we will be doing.
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Re: OT - one way to save your home if Mississippi floods...
Trouble is,
It’ll all be declared “Endangered Wetlands” now and he’ll lose everything to the feds.
It’ll all be declared “Endangered Wetlands” now and he’ll lose everything to the feds.
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Re: OT - one way to save your home if Mississippi floods...
Feds will likely have him up on charges for not getting the proper EPA permits, Environmental Impact Statements, etc.
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Yup... Then when the flat-landers (flood victims) finally get things back to normal, they'll be asked to pay taxes or borrow money from China to "bail out" the high-grounders when the wild fires burn them out later on into the summer.AJMD429 wrote:Yeah, but these days, everyone on 'high ground' will have to pay taxes or borrow money from China in their grandkid's names, to "bail out" the flood victims...RIHMFIRE wrote:...almost all of the plantation homes
were built high off the ground,....rivers flood...
That said, I think most of the damage (in either scenario) will be paid for via insurance.
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DixieBoy wrote:I'm surprised no one here has commented on what I noticed right away. He's now got shooting berms (at least for pistol shooting) all the way around his place. - DixieBoy
Actually, I was thinking that i hope it doesn't rain!
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No matter what happens, they deserve an "E" for Effort!!
I think thats awesome, there are some serious cajones at work there.
As someone once said, "Do not go gentle into that good night"
I think thats awesome, there are some serious cajones at work there.
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Re: OT - one way to save your home if Mississippi floods...
yeah that's the right idea. I think a house built on a spud barge would be perfect. the services can be hooked up with flexible lines until the outhouse clears.....The old timers built their shacks on cypress logs. They just floated up when it flooded and went back down with the water.
not all of the inverted islands were high enough or held up to the current.
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He has one heck of a moat!
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Lets pray his house survived.
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