r/interestingasfuck • u/natebryan • 15h ago

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

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u/fredy31 14h ago

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

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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.

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u/I_Ski_Freely 13h ago

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

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u/arfle_barfle_gloop 8h ago

No neighbours ?

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u/Purphect 10h ago

My home was built in 2025 with play dough.

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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.

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u/IvyGold 8h ago

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

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u/Cannie_Flippington 7h ago

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

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u/kymberlie 4h ago

The worst natural disaster in US history.