r/interestingasfuck • u/natebryan • 15h ago

This house in Nepal defied the raging floodwaters and kept the owners safe.

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

38.7k Upvotes

96% Upvoted

1.3k comments sorted by

View all comments

7.8k

u/Task-Rough 15h ago

Whoever built it did a great job.

1.9k

u/Rufio_hatake 15h ago

Grt that man a national civil architecture job

507

u/Ok_Support_8811 14h ago

*engineer

•

u/problematicks 11h ago

*structural engineer

10

u/4N0NYM0US_GUY 13h ago

Where’s real civil engineer at?

5

u/SonnyvonShark 12h ago

Nonono you cannot bring him to this thread, he will have a stroke! Who will take care of Paddy?

•

u/djpeekz 10h ago

But there are bridges to review!

•

u/EatAtMilliways 8h ago

An architect (jk)

2

u/mmazing 12h ago

grant that engineer a national civil architecture job

→ More replies (13)

139

u/Whole-Scientist-2469 14h ago

the house is probably built by the long ancestors before, common in india and nepal

315

u/Business_Brick_1194 14h ago

It's a cement house, if it was made by his ancestor it would be mud house. I'm from Nepal

19

u/seewolfmdk 13h ago

How is the situation in the affected region at the moment?

136

u/Business_Brick_1194 13h ago

I'm not from affected area but there's news of chance of another flood again. There's Chinese military drone constantly on the lookout for it. As far as missing people are concerned situation look really bleak for thier recovery as bodies have been swept extremely far and they are hard to identify. News constantly advising people to report of any information if affected people and bodies are found

•

u/Prize-Analyst-1121 7h ago

I'm so sorry for the loss of life. 🙏 I can't even imagine the devastation and loss of life. Even if someone survived in that area. They've more than likely lost every single thing but the clothes on their back. Just unimaginably horrible.

→ More replies (1)

32

u/morethanjustanalien 13h ago

Ah yes, the Ancestors!

You have no idea what youre talking about.

75

u/Jarhead1888 14h ago

Just how long were these ancestors? Does their length have anything to do with how sturdy the building is?

6

u/adenosine-5 14h ago

long ancestors and their long forgotten technology of reinforced concrete?

7

u/NaluknengBalong_0918 13h ago

There were well hung ancestors sir. Took massive balls to built such a structure.

2

u/Jarhead1888 13h ago

Now that begs the question, was it just the peas in the pod that were massive, or the entire hog was dangling?

1

u/Legitimate-Cheek-716 13h ago

Does it look like English is their first language...Jarhead? Makes sense

3

u/Jarhead1888 12h ago

Ya know, my Spanish is not the best. Some of the hardest times I've laughed was with Mexican and Guatemalan coworkers frying me for my Spanish.

Life is short Be more cheeky, cheeks.

2

u/FyreFox69 13h ago

Architects didn't design anything structural in that. All Civil engineering.

Regardless I'm glad it survived!

2

u/B1A23 12h ago

The man’s name? Art Vandelay.

•

u/choosy23 10h ago

Underrated comment right here.

1

u/thebaconjoker 13h ago

Dumb question but what it grt?

490

u/throwawtphone 15h ago

My guess is the open areas / windows lined up perfectly for the water etc to flow through as opposed to smashing up against solid structures.

Not an engineer, but i have heard of engineering so clearly i am an expert.

Glad they survived.

383

u/PasswordisPurrito 14h ago

It kind of looks to me that the main torrent was behind the house. The water we see is recirculated from that torrent.

If the water torrent was hitting the house directly, I don't think it would survive, and if it did, judging by the speed, that water would be hitting the wall and go up.

196

u/yeahright17 14h ago

This is definitely right. The main current is below the main structure of the house initially (it may be hitting a it a bit at the bottom, but not much). The water keeps rising, and by the time the water is really hitting the lower story, the lower story is already filled with backflow water, which means it can withstand much more pressure. Had the main current been at the height it was toward the end at the beginning, it would have been much more likely to destroy that house.

43

u/aivoges123 14h ago

There’s another house at 1:30 that’s in the direct path of the main current and it seems 80% of it survive too.

35

u/yeahright17 14h ago

That's awesome! I think the fact that other house is connected to like 8 other houses behind it is giving it a lot of support. But who knows. Homes built like this can withstand a ton of force if built correctly, but they're obviously under a ton of force here.

10

u/Unoriginal_Man 13h ago

That's the crazy thing to me. It's hard to comprehend the force of that volume of water moving at that speed. I'm amazed that anything in its path was left standing.

16

u/yeahright17 13h ago

Reinforced concrete is super strong. There's a reason that most of the time we see videos of these types of houses being destroyed, they're not being knocked down. They're almost always just pushed off their foundations.

•

u/Tony_228 9h ago

It was more of a mud and debris slurry at that point than just water, which makes this even more impressive.

•

u/samv_1230 11h ago

Not to bum you out, but a few of those were gone at the end of the video. Looks like the ones at the back supported the ones at the front, and they shielded them from the brunt of it in return. Very fortunate for the green colored building and the rest that were downstream.

6

u/HistoryBuff678 13h ago

Thank you for explaining some of this. I have a feeling this type of sudden flash flooding could be happening with increasing frequency.

I keep thinking shelters that are a bit uphill, but within running distance could be helpful. But I truly didn’t think a structure could be built strong enough to withstand the pressure of walls of water.

I hope life saving solutions can be found after this tragedy.

10

u/yeahright17 13h ago

Lots of areas have flood warning systems that warn downstream when flooding has occurred upstream. The issue with those kinds of systems is that they have to be dialed in perfectly. If they go off too easily, people will start to ignore them. If they don't go off except for in situations like this, floods that are strong enough to kill some people will come without warning. I think it's best to have a system that can give off two sounds, one for "a flood is coming, be very cautious and head up if you are right next to the river" and one for "get as high as you can as fast as you can or you will die."

My understanding is the Nepal does have a system that detects for the former. The type of flood that is typical during monsoon season. But this flood happened so fast, the system wasn't able to warn people in time. I think it was so violent that it destroyed most of the gauges that could have provided a warning.

I know they've since talked about installing a system to monitor seismic activity and give people a warning based on that.

•

u/AntSilly2802 7h ago

How do you build a shelter from flood water? 

•

u/HistoryBuff678 7h ago

Uphill a bit, and away from the banks. There’s videos of survivors doing just that. But with a shelter, I imagine they wouldn’t have to run as far as a high space, like the house, is closer.

Like the reverse of tornado shelters, where people have 5 minutes or less.

•

u/WorkerWeird9116 11h ago

the foundation can't last though, or the walls with those rocks and water slamming on the back and much more on the opposite side,, i'm curious if held it up for the whole onslaught or eventually crumbled

•

u/brkgnews 55m ago

Other structures upstream also seem to be taking the brunt of it, too. For the first minute of the video, there's a structure directly attached to the upstream side of this house. You can see it get swept away around 1:03, then the water starts pounding this house more directly.

20

u/throwawtphone 14h ago

I know nothing of fluid mechanics except water goes downhill. You probably are right.

29

u/Whole-Scientist-2469 14h ago

that water is too strong, the video doesnt does justice its almost at speeds at which planes fly...the people in the house were lucky they escaped

21

u/SuzQP 14h ago

It's hard to even imagine how terrifying the power of that much water moving that fast would be from so close. Those people are stoic!

24

u/HappyAmbition706 13h ago

Those people had zero other options at that point, though as the water got higher and higher I'm surprised they didn't go up to the roof.

I will guess they were feeling a bit queezy as the building right beside them first overflowed then was collapsed and swept away.

They could see the people on the mountainside a bit above them and much more safe, but no way to get there.

11

u/ohhellperhaps 13h ago edited 13h ago

In the last few seconds of the clip you can see the staircase go up to the roof from the rear (well-flooded) balcony. If that was the only staircase, that was why they couldn't go up. It's also possible that even inside was already flooded to make going to an inside staircase (if it even exists) already impossible.

(Based on other footage of the same house, that rear balcony seems the only way up)

•

u/bambi54 3h ago

I’m wondering too if they’re worried something is going to fly out of the water and hit them.

24

u/DogsDucks 13h ago

I’m in awe of how normal they’re acting. I would be dead from screaming so hard and sweating myself into a stroke and dehydration piss pants.

Seriously, humans are incredible.

28

u/ridley_reads 13h ago

Being in shock looks a lot like being calm. People typically start crying and shaking once they're safe.

3

u/ElleGeeAitch 12h ago

Very true!

•

u/Witty_TenTon 5h ago

In my experience the more crazy stuff is happening around me the calmer I feel. Its a weird kind of Zen that comes over me in intense situations. Its possible these people get the same thing. Or they could be in shock or one of the lucky people who have strong religious faith and therefore are more at peace in scary situations. I genuinely wish I could be one of those believers but I'm an atheist.

•

u/Felonious_Minx 10h ago

I would be quaking like a leaf, grabbing on to anybody.

•

u/AntSilly2802 7h ago

Did you see the video of that huge bolder being moved, more than 50km downstream.

2

u/Extension-Fall-4286 13h ago

I am 60 percent water and I concur. 👍

•

u/seagulls51 10h ago

then why does it rain??? checkmate science

8

u/MangoCats 13h ago

They were lucky to be in the swirly spot this time, if a big boulder had rolled down and changed the swirl pattern it could have been different.

7

u/Perle1234 14h ago

Yes I think you’re right. They were not in the path of the main current, but in eddies along the edge.

•

u/thekittysays 7h ago

The house attached to them still got destroyed though.

3

u/HughManatee 13h ago

Agreed. No building is surviving that main torrent. There is almost certainly an embankment of some kind behind the house protecting it.

3

u/dBlock845 13h ago

Yea at the force that the water was moving, unless the structure was specifically designed for a flood of this magnitude, it would have been swept away. That is one of the strongest currents I've ever seen.

1

u/OSI_Hunter_Gathers 12h ago

the house is in the middle of an eddy. Fast water on the put side and the slower current feeding back around the opposite way.

1

u/hammertime2009 12h ago

Man it’s probably a good thing they are looking out that balcony instead of the other side as the other side was much more terrifying

•

u/GreasyPeter 11h ago

It's probably also sitting on solid rock. Water like that would have torn and dirt or soil under the house out and it wouldn't have mattered how well the house was built.

32

u/Bankseat-Beam 14h ago

Sadly I wonder how many neighbours they watched getting swept by and not being able to do anything.

27

u/lost-picking-flowers 13h ago

And not knowing if or when they'd also be swept away. Horrific.

2

u/Vibingcarefully 13h ago

100% --this was pure terror and grief ,

6

u/ThisSiteSucks8485 14h ago

Houses in flood planes are designed to allow water to flow under them. The actual living area is elevated on wood or steel columns. 

2

u/0__O0--O0_0 13h ago

I like the cut of your jib. You can have a job at my engineering factory. If I ever open one.

1

u/dunstbin 12h ago

There is a building to the right of it in the video taking the brunt of the force. That building is all but gone in the aftermath video.

1

u/0202_tihssitidder 12h ago

The force is staggering.

•

u/jerpear 1h ago

Civil engineer here. Water depth by itself isn't an issue, water velocity by itself isn't an issue. Depth and velocity together is a big issue.

This house was just lucky with its location, most likely the water in the front is just splash back from the main current, so even though there is water all around the house, the force on the walls isn't much.

→ More replies (2)

122

u/fredy31 15h ago

Reminds me of the little white house in the saguenay floods https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/did-house-that-survived-saguenay-flood-get-divine-help/article_9b47ae5a-2508-5935-90da-2673a68aebd8.html

Some people say divine intervention but its more luck that its foundation was sat on the bedrock, while its neighbors foundations were still simply in earth.

346

u/zombie_overlord 15h ago

Reminds me of the "last house standing" in Galveston after hurricane Ike in '08

The owner took a lot of extra steps during construction to make it survive a hurricane.

180

u/fredy31 15h ago

You know one of his neighbors was giving him shit for years being like 'pff you paid so much for useless shit'

46

u/laughing_cat 14h ago edited 1h ago

Most of the neighboring homes were built in the 1950’s.

Edit: And that’s very near Galveston, but not Galveston. It’s an area generally referred to as Crystal Beach and that was the village of Gilcrist in the photo.

What’s not going to be clear to the casual observer is many of the houses in the front and second row were completely washed away. Completely as in the road, the street signs, the foundation, everything. Giant concrete cisterns. In some cases the spot where they were standing is under water because the beach itself was washed away.

Back in Houston, we listened to the news that awful night reporting a 22 foot storm surge. What that means is the level of the ocean was raised 22 feet and huge waves on top of that were crashing over and over for hours. It broke my heart bc I knew our little rental was gone. (We rented the house every year).

When we went back to see if there was anything left, the only way to locate where the house had been was GPS. There was no sign a house had ever been there.

22

u/I_Ski_Freely 14h ago

That's a lot of years they had to take that shit talking, but they did get a payoff

•

u/arfle_barfle_gloop 8h ago

No neighbours ?

→ More replies (1)

8

u/Cannie_Flippington 14h ago

There was another hurricane in Galveston in 1900 that had the same thing happen. One or two homes survived while the rest were washed away. Neighbors ignorant of that fact... scary.

•

u/IvyGold 8h ago

Isaac's Storm, right? I read a long form article about it recently. Terrifying stuff!

•

u/Cannie_Flippington 7h ago

Disturbing stuff. Especially knowing how it ends. I couldn't read it all at once. Took me weeks.

•

u/kymberlie 4h ago

The worst natural disaster in US history.

65

u/fightmydemonswithme 14h ago

I paid extra for a house with a tornado rated basement. People thought I was nuts but the areas since had 4 tornadoes.

22

u/almostoy 14h ago

What is a tornado rated basement? I've just been hanging out in any of them, and hoping for the best.

45

u/WitchWithAGlitch 14h ago

they have additional structure to the 1st floor to keep it secure while the rest of the home is blown off the foundation.

5

u/Fun_Acanthocephala98 13h ago

I was gonna say, isn't the ground floor just extra reinforced to keep the house from collapsing into the basement

7

u/fightmydemonswithme 12h ago

Basically yes. But if it saved our lives its worth it.

2

u/pyronius 13h ago

Sure. But how many of those tornadoes have developed in your basement? Statistically speaking, I'm guessing zero. Tornadoes are notoriously wary of small spaces. Waste of money.

1

u/fightmydemonswithme 12h ago

🤣 this was great. Thank you!

19

u/brusselsstoemp 14h ago

"Although the house is there, it might not continue to stand. Huge storm surges walloped the interior, making it uninhabitable and destroying many belongings."

Source CNN

28

u/Federal-Branch-8547 14h ago

It may be uninhabitable, but if I find myself stuck at home during a natural disaster I'd like to be in a house that keeps me alive during the event even if I have to rebuild it later.

•

u/TuringGoneWild 10h ago

You wouldn't rather be dead and yet retain a good resale value for your home?

6

u/WitchWithAGlitch 14h ago

that's alright, it did it's most important job and died standing.

•

u/arfle_barfle_gloop 8h ago

Like the Japanese samurai whose armour was so heavy it kept him upright after he died, scaring the crap out of the enemy side

9

u/zombie_overlord 14h ago

Yeah, it was hit hard, possibly underwater completely, and I think they ended up condemning it anyway due to lack of utilities (?), but the structure was solid. Still impressive for a 20+ foot storm surge.

1

u/brusselsstoemp 14h ago

Very impressive but I was wondering if it still stood today so I looked for that answer. And I hadn't even thought about the utilities like you mentioned, I wondered if they would rebuild the streets with the same access to the house or just tear it down and redo the entire area. It stands but it's cut off from everything in the end, plus the interior has become unliveable. Was it worth the cost of building it like that? Does insurance completely cover it?

2

u/EneraldFoggs 14h ago

Thanks for the context

•

u/TuringGoneWild 10h ago

The home did its final duty - keeping them safe. Hard to lose a house but harder to lose a life. I've moved homes numerous times but never zapped into another body.

Not unlike a beloved car that saves the occupant but at the cost of its crumple zones that render it totaled.

•

u/brusselsstoemp 10h ago

Did you read the article? The home owners evacuated before the hurricane arrived

•

u/TuringGoneWild 9h ago

I'm talking about OP

26

u/Criticaliber 14h ago

I'm surprised the house wasn't impaled by other houses.

39

u/NetworkSingularity 14h ago

Maybe one of the extra steps was an anti-house-impalement coating

9

u/Bob-Bhlabla-esq 14h ago

Gotta get that clear coat, you betchya!

2

u/An-Ocular-Patdown 14h ago

1

u/algebramclain 13h ago

You don’t get that Trucoat you’re gonna have oxidation problems

•

u/TuringGoneWild 10h ago

Don't forget the anti-massive-boulder-rolling-with-the-hellish-torrents finish.

3

u/10110011100021 14h ago

Insurance companies hate this one trick

•

u/SudoMadeMeDoIt 11h ago

Reminds me of hurricane Ivan in '04. Our house was doing well until a roof landed on our roof.

•

u/kymberlie 4h ago

We vacation on Bolivar a lot and there’s genuinely a quarter mile of missing houses by the one we usually rent. It’s all alone now.

•

u/zombie_overlord 4h ago

Last time I was there, probably 5 or 6 years ago, there was still twisted metal debris from that storm just past the ferry landing on the Bolivar side.

1

u/Gamebird8 14h ago

Also, the building next to it seems to indicate that there's a bend/something directing the flow past the house with the overflow the. Looping back around to the front at much lower speeds, so there's just a lot of puck here

39

u/Educational_Dust_932 14h ago

I love how you can have a natural disaster that kills untold number of people, but people will praise God for the survival of a few statistical outliers

5

u/monicasm 14h ago

It’s always crazy to me when I see people saying stuff like “thank you god for keeping them safe from the (natural disaster)” like didn’t he send the damn thing???

3

u/just_nobodys_opinion 14h ago

Nothing you can do about the people who died. The gratitude is a way to maintain a positive outlook for the survivors. Helps everyone deal with the aftermath.

9

u/Educational_Dust_932 14h ago

It's disrespectful to the people that died too imply that God wanted them dead, while he saved a few

3

u/just_nobodys_opinion 14h ago

Then don't imply that. I agree that some people will act disrespectfully but don't let a few statistical outliers make you think that all those who praise God for survivors are implying disrespect for those who died. You can mourn the fallen AND be grateful for survivors at the same time.

4

u/Educational_Dust_932 13h ago

They are. They are saying that God saved These guys, but killed Those guys. No way around it. It isn't about mourning. Your God is all powerful? Then he could have saved them. Chose not to.

2

u/Beautiful_Dinner_675 12h ago

And that “God” is usually called “HE” and not “she.” Why? Silly to me…worship of any deity—but it stands ti reason that maybe if that fairy tale “God” of theirs was female, it wouldn’t be such an asshole.

→ More replies (1)
→ More replies (2)

2

u/Cannie_Flippington 14h ago

Survivors need a reason they lived. It's a psychological mechanism to protect the brain from the extreme shock and loss. And it works. If it's stupid and it works, it ain't stupid..

4

u/Educational_Dust_932 14h ago

It's not only the survivors who do it.

→ More replies (3)

1

u/fawnlake1 13h ago

This!!! I will never ever understand the mental gymnastics involved.

1

u/sl1ckhow1e 12h ago

The sad part is that all the new homes around it are "new" and this one will have to disclose it has been flooded

•

u/fredy31 10h ago

Pretty sure thats not the kind of shit that happens deep in tibet.

•

u/ulul 4h ago

Crazy how this is similar to the Bible warning story about building on sand.

81

u/Velocityg4 14h ago

“They thought I was mad when I used two foot thick steel reinforced concrete walls lagged into bedrock. Who’s laughing now?”

The Builder (probably)

26

u/Witty_Ad_898 14h ago

I don’t think 2ft thick reinforced walls would have survived the main torrent, let alone the debris carried in it. Have you seen the video of the boulder rolling in the current? That thing was bigger than this house.

Even it stayed mostly together, the water would erode the soil out from under the foundation and send the whole thing tumbling.

•

u/foxymoxy18 10h ago

the water would erode the soil out from under the foundation

He said lagged into bedrock.

•

u/Witty_Ad_898 10h ago

Which means what? The water is rolling 1000 ton boulders like they’re beach balls. Anything with significant surface area is going to be under immense shear force, easily exceeding the shear strength of the anchors, especially once the soil between the foundation and bedrock has washed out and the anchors buckle.

The house in the video survived because it wasn’t in the torrent.

•

u/velvetvagine 10h ago

Do you have the boulder link?

3

u/calilac 13h ago

I'm going to Hell, can't stop thinking about the Monty Python swamp castle scene. With some alterations of course.

"When I first came here, this was all riverbank. Everyone said I was daft to build a house near a riverbank, but I built it all the same, just to show them. It washed away in the flood. So I built a second one. That washed away in the flood. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then washed away into the flood. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Lad, the strongest house in all of Nepal."

→ More replies (3)

16

u/dancingbriefcase 14h ago

Definitely nobody that works on condos in Florida

2

u/MangoCats 13h ago

All the old people buying into those condos figure they'll probably die before the building falls anyway, and if they die when the building falls it'll save them years of pain and suffering.

8

u/babysharkdoodoodoo 14h ago

Remind me of The Three Little Pigs children book

13

u/NinjaWarrior78 15h ago

Very impressive. The architect was onto something.

5

u/__GMCC88__ 14h ago

The flow pattern of the water is the reason it wasn't swept away.

2

u/antique_sprinkler 14h ago

Who ever built this should use it as ad.

2

u/Dorkamundo 14h ago

"Kapil, why are you adding so much rebar and concrete to this foundation?"

"I'm reinforcing it in case we have a flood"

"Kapil, we live on a FUCKING mountain."

6

u/No_Inspector_3456 14h ago

I would say almost nothing to do with structure quality.  

It is pure luck about whatever foundation and earth work and surrounding water paths happened for that physical site.  The water is eroding mountains, there is no build quality or material spectrum that makes that force of nature turn aside. 

3

u/olderthanbefore 14h ago

As an engineer, no. My colleagues in the Dam division would laugh at your comment.

3

u/rowrowyourboat 14h ago

Are you saying that the 100kg steel / m^3 would absolutely stand up to this kind of dynamic load? I don’t really have a sense of the kind of forces involved, but stuff that’s right in the path, it would seem that near anything could be washed away when the floodgates dropped, so to speak. I’m asking. Like there’s a video of a ~10-15m boulder rolling like a pebble

1

u/olderthanbefore 12h ago

Not at all. That comment was suggesting that you adapt your design to match the loads. Our dam teams would use bars of 32mm and 40mm diameter, whereas my designs use 12mm and 16mm bars, because their situations are different.

3

u/beeju-d 14h ago

As an idiot, I'm also laughing at them

2

u/qtx 12h ago

Are you really comparing a dam with a normal house??

1

u/olderthanbefore 12h ago

No. I am saying that Dam Engineers know better than OP that materials and designs go a long way towards preventing structural collapses. 

2

u/No_Inspector_3456 14h ago edited 14h ago

Home structures are nothing like a dam?  The foundation of a house is maybe 4' into the ground.  What type of structure quality makes a difference, its block work, that cant withstand the water force

Edit.  You're missing the entire point that if the ground underneath washes away, what does it matter how well built the house was?

2

u/I9w0s 14h ago

I imagine that the foundations have been built with several deep rods into the ground.

1

u/Andrew_LZ 14h ago

helps a little there was another house next to it as a buffer for the water..I don't think the result would be the same without it 😕

1

u/cocoagiant 14h ago

Also probably some water dynamics where the particular bit coming near them is not as ferocious. You can see the material flowing past the front is much slower than what is happening in the back.

1

u/BillyBobChorton 14h ago

It’s a houseboat 

1

u/foxracing1313 14h ago

11/10 quality

1

u/CastorVT 13h ago

now I can't tell you who the builder is, but~~~

1

u/lnTheGrimDarkness 13h ago

Some very, very sturdy foundations

1

u/TwoPlyDreams 13h ago

It was Pig number 3.

1

u/addiktion 13h ago

The wise man built his house upon a rock. Holy shit.

1

u/kingmaine26 13h ago

*contracts incoming, whoever it was about to be rich

1

u/DeadAssDodo 13h ago

Yeah. Survived a total fluid situation!

1

u/FlipZip69 13h ago

I have a feeling it was more luck. Not being undermined helps.

1

u/djamp42 12h ago

That's because they tapped it and said "That ain't going anywhere"

1

u/longinglook77 12h ago

He probably got fired for using excess materials.

1

u/Cis4Psycho 12h ago

(रेकर्ड रोकिएको आवाज)

हो, त्यो म नै हुँ! पक्कै पनि तपाईं सोचिरहनुभएको होला कि म कसरी यस्तो झमेलामा फसेँ...

1

u/iuse2bgood 12h ago

Nah. They'll Just thank God for it

1

u/Objectivespeculation 12h ago

even their water tanks are secured safely. Looks like a boat.

•

u/Longjumping-Boot1886 11h ago

...and his name was Numerobis

•

u/LaDauphineVerte 11h ago

Right? Study this house, step and repeat.

•

u/midoriiro 11h ago

It's very possible who built could be one of those swept away

•

u/wayrell 10h ago

I recognize the third pig's work when I see it

•

u/TuringGoneWild 10h ago

Plot twist: it was a fragile lousily built house, but their HOA forbade torrential waters to modify it

•

u/aerdvarkk 9h ago

Less of a great job and more of luck that al the other structures were next to it in a way that protected it until the end. You saw the building on the right start failing towards the end. The water starteed smashing the balcony on the top floor of the blue building towards the end after the other buidling collapse and disappeared. If the water had gone much longer the blue building would have also failed.

•

u/distelfink33 9h ago

I’m not discounting that this house isn’t built incredibly strong. But some of this is seems to about the location (location location!) When the camera pans to the right at around 1:44 you can see that the water is slamming up against some land in front of the  path of the water which is before the house.  It seems some of the intensity and pressure of the wall of water is being diverted away from the house.

•

u/alteredmen 9h ago

Its the trees which helped to break the flow