Topic: Homemade Flood wall (Read 70612 times)

caged · « **Reply #60 on:** March 27, 2009, 05:30:22 PM »

Quote from: onlyflash944 on March 27, 2009, 01:42:38 PM

id have a cooler of beer and a few intertubes tied to the top of that monument and ride it out there for a week

At least you beer wouldnt get warm with all that ice.

onlyflash944 · « **Reply #61 on:** March 27, 2009, 07:27:14 PM »

Quote from: caged on March 27, 2009, 05:30:22 PM

At least you beer wouldnt get warm with all that ice.

reminds me of my buddy who made koozies for 40s out of an old wet suit he couldn't fit in anymore

Conceptz-X · « **Reply #62 on:** March 27, 2009, 09:58:02 PM »

Is he still floating?

Fuck that whole thing is a mess. I want a house on the water, but seeing shit like that makes you think twice. I grew up on an island, near Lake Erie, so water is something I enjoy. Right now, I'm all fucked up living here in AL, there's the Chatahooche river, but that cess pool is nasty and filthy.

Teg2boo · « **Reply #63 on:** March 28, 2009, 01:20:50 AM »

Country music sucks.

90LSPimpin · « **Reply #64 on:** March 28, 2009, 01:29:09 AM »

This is while you wont catch my Black ass near water.

jeffsciv23 · « **Reply #65 on:** March 28, 2009, 01:38:27 AM »

wonder what happened to him?

robus · « **Reply #66 on:** March 28, 2009, 11:55:33 AM »

he either got wet or he didn't

Conceptz-X · « **Reply #67 on:** March 28, 2009, 03:04:02 PM »

Quote from: robus on March 28, 2009, 11:55:33 AM

he either got wet or he didn't

WTF kind of post was that?

I hope he got the fuck out of the way and saved any car parts he had

jeffsciv23 · « **Reply #68 on:** March 28, 2009, 03:23:46 PM »

sounds like they were saying that most of his town was evacuated, so that probly explains it.

joel · « **Reply #69 on:** March 28, 2009, 04:11:20 PM »

So after a long battle of flood fighting, we are still High and dry. We have been having a small leak under our planters through the soil. But our electric pumps have been able to keep up. Our wall is hold strong and will not be going anywhere. We are only worried about seapage now. The city diked our house and both houses next to us in. That really fucked us. We built 2 wing dikes on the side of our house, so we are now fully ringed. Our neighbor to the north of us lost his house last night.

Oh yeah, my walls not gonna break

jeffsciv23 · « **Reply #70 on:** March 28, 2009, 04:35:50 PM »

holy shit man, that alot of fucking water. glad your doign alright and holding your ground. check in on the topic about you in GD to let them know your not dead

joel · « **Reply #71 on:** March 28, 2009, 05:11:47 PM »

Video from my my garage around my front yard
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v294/atmospere_adikt/?action=view&current=0327091859.flv

Oh Yeah, I almost forgot to tell you guys, we added some more bracing

Loki · « **Reply #72 on:** March 28, 2009, 05:33:26 PM »

Quote from: Teg2boo on March 28, 2009, 01:20:50 AM

Country music sucks.

So do french people.

Good luck, that's a lot of fucking water $:-\$

N1ghtM0nkey · « **Reply #73 on:** March 28, 2009, 05:41:02 PM »

That looks like the last fucking place on earth I would want to live. Cold as fuck, snow, rain, floods. Is there anything good about where you live or do you just enjoy living there because it sucks so much?

joel · « **Reply #74 on:** March 28, 2009, 05:46:24 PM »

Quote from: n/a mike on March 28, 2009, 05:37:21 PM

fuck that is a lot of water. 4feet deep at the wall you built?
oh and great video, i love the sound of walking on snow.

the planter are 3 ft tall, and the water is up 7 ft from the ground at our dike, so technically its 7 ft up our wall.

Quote from: N1ghtM0nkey on March 28, 2009, 05:41:02 PM

That looks like the last fucking place on earth I would want to live. Cold as fuck, snow, rain, floods. Is there anything good about where you live or do you just enjoy living there because it sucks so much?

Look up best places to live. I think Fargo/Moorhead was in the top 15 last year. No Crime, NO EMISSIONS TESTING!, Everything we need but not nearly the traffic of a big city. Shit man, I love it here.

Sinister · « **Reply #75 on:** March 28, 2009, 09:22:01 PM »

Fuck that, I live by a lake but atleast I'm at the top of the hill

Even if the water level gets high as fuck it'll never reach us

Conceptz-X · « **Reply #76 on:** March 28, 2009, 09:38:05 PM »

I used to live about 3 houses down from the Niagara River, living upstream of the falls, waterlevel couldnt change but 3-4 feet max hi to low, Lake Erie was a different story depending on how the wind blew, it could change 7 feet sometimes

crx2fast · « **Reply #77 on:** March 29, 2009, 03:48:58 AM »

jesus man good luck.. hope everything works out for ya

joel · « **Reply #78 on:** March 29, 2009, 09:44:45 AM »

Made it through the night awesome. Water levels are descending faster than the NWS predicted.

90dx · « **Reply #79 on:** March 29, 2009, 01:14:21 PM »

Wow well good luck looks like your gonna make it out dry

joel · « **Reply #80 on:** March 29, 2009, 01:20:12 PM »

I have a 4 minute Blair witch style walk around video thats being processed on youtube right now... I will post it up as soon as its done.

3607 Riverview Circle

wpgredteg · « **Reply #81 on:** March 29, 2009, 07:18:45 PM »

looks like a pretty sturdy structure. nicely done

onlyflash944 · « **Reply #82 on:** March 29, 2009, 09:25:01 PM »

you should definatley have a city wide game of paintball capture the flag now that every house has bunkers

imburne · « **Reply #83 on:** March 29, 2009, 09:28:01 PM »

Wheres the Arc and whens the flood?

robus · « **Reply #84 on:** March 30, 2009, 02:53:23 AM »

Quote from: onlyflash944 on March 29, 2009, 09:25:01 PM

you should definatley have a city wide game of paintball capture the flag now that every house has bunkers

lol

t_cel_t · « **Reply #85 on:** March 30, 2009, 04:14:34 AM »

jesus what a cluster fuck of 2x4's

HiProfile · « **Reply #86 on:** March 30, 2009, 04:33:37 AM »

SHit, the last pix look like Red Green invaded your yard. Where's the duct tape?

joel · « **Reply #87 on:** March 30, 2009, 11:46:54 AM »

Quote from: HiProfile on March 30, 2009, 04:33:37 AM

SHit, the last pix look like Red Green invaded your yard. Where's the duct tape?

:somb:
Its funny, we were just talking about that yesterday. My neighbors flood wall is nig-rigged like no tomorrow but he's holding just as well as we are. We werent going for look but strength. We had several family friends who are professional carpenters come in to help.

joel · « **Reply #88 on:** March 31, 2009, 05:37:43 PM »

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/03/31/onefamilyfights/

I'm famous, I guess.

FastGermanCar · « **Reply #89 on:** March 31, 2009, 05:46:16 PM »

Quote from: joel on March 31, 2009, 05:37:43 PM

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/03/31/onefamilyfights/

I'm famous, I guess.

sweet. so u work at home depot thats how u got all the wood cheap.

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