(September 21, 2017 at 12:32 pm)pocaracas Wrote: 18,000 Pounds Of Sandbags Weren't Enough To Protect This Houston Home:
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2...uston-home
They needed to actually cover the whole house.... then, it might have worked.
Wait, are they saying that the 4.5 feet of water in the house came in over the top of the wrap or through the gaps in the sand bags at the bottom? I mean, they implied that the street flooded 9 feet and the house was at a slightly lower elevation than the rest of the houses on the street... I hate when news stories are vague...
In any case, my original point stands that retrofitting flood protection like this is not likely to be that effective. Water is an insidious bastard.
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
