Countries who barely have floods : create a super advance technologies to avoid flood from getting to their house. Countries who have flood all year round : piles of sand bags from WW1
The permeable concrete would work in warmer climates, but if its installed in any areas with freezing weather it would break extremely quickly due to ice formation within the concrete itself
That's actually an astute observation. But, even where I live, we've been getting colder winters. So even though it's typically a warm climate here we'd have issues too.
@@ryanbelcher396 a good point but likely you use a specific type of subgrade to help with that. Enough compacted material like possibly gravel and you'd be hard pressed to have to replace the subgrade before the concrete
@@ryanbelcher396 True, but the reality of sand, silt, grime and mossy/fungal growth within the material will always make it so that moisture and water is held within and so will likely always be a problem below freezing conditions.
As someone living in area that always flood I would say only few of these are practical other are just fancy rich people stuff. Also This is one of the most peaceful flood I've ever seen, In my place the water is like a mini tsunami.
@@doltBmB Depending on what you're protecting. If the government the easiest and cheapest would be HESCO floodline and if they have extra money they could spent on the topmix permiable. Function is the same to slow down water from flowing to other area. If you're a mall CEO Anggeres SCFB is good to protect water from flowing to underground parking. But if you're just a simple civilian and have a little extra money all of these are useless except The StormMesister as it protect water from flowing into the house.
Also FYI flood in my place are so bad that the normal water level are 1m or 4 feet tall the highest level was 2 to 3 meter (around 8 feet tall) not to mention the water flow so fast. There's cases where people lost their lives during the flood. Sorry but all this appliances are child's play to my kind of flood.
Hot take: Wetlands. Natural flood protection with benefits all year round, from Increased biodiversity to lower Surrounding temps in hotter months. Like, the best way to both prevent and lessen the Damage of flooding is to restore and protect wetlands.
@@blcouch Wetlands exist on mountains though. Bogs, marshes, they kind of can exist at any elevation. So, I would suggest not living in the lowest part of a valley, not living in a previously existing lake that was drained by humans, designing proper housing on mountainsides with the correct grading, and yes, keeping marshlands where they are and using them as protection rather than destroying them to fit in more buildings.
For sure, they must be shamed for not waiting for a natural disaster to show off their capitalistic, penny pinching, worker abusing causing product. It’s false advertising 😡
The 'Boxwall' was definitely the smartest looking of the designs. Affordable effective solution, easy to install and store. I imagine the design size could be expanded upon for a variety of applications. Thank you for sharing.
the flood blocks also seem handy. might be even a option to use those two mixed. the boxwall seem to be ready faster but you can build the floodblock higher and sturdier.
0:54 as a structural engineering student, I can't really say it's a great idea to start attaching a potential side load of a few kips directy pulling to the side on columns that weren't designed for that. Mostly an issue with smaller columns in structures with smaller importance factor values, but yeah, not the best, I don't think. Then again, by the time that load is applied (due to water trying to rip it away), that structure probably already has *other* issues to worry about.
@@bofa2382 He's saying that tethering a car-sized pool floaty to a loadbearing column when the building is being washed away in a river.. might not be the most innovative of actions...
Some good ideas here, they can keep the water from coming through the doors but what happens when it starts coming out of your toilet? Flood water always comes through the sewers and once it reaches the height of any down stairs toilets it pours over the bowl.
@@smashexentertainment676 ...water can pour through the lid, it's not like toilet seats are completely watertight when closed doing that is like trusting school glue to keep a door closed if someone tries to open it
Didn't the video say they were from the UK? If so, it drops below freezing there regularly enough. It would be interested; however, to see what the effects of constant freezing and thawing would do to the mix over time.
The quick dam is pretty great. I’m using on to keep my driveway safe from notable amounts of water flooding my garage. I have no idea if it will dry out or if I’ll have to throw it away but it’s doing a great job.
If I had to guess those things are filled with those silica gel beads that swell when soaked. You know the ones that are like large grains of sand when dry but are good sized marbles after soaking for a while. I've dried those things out before on a tray but it can take a few weeks for them to get back down to their original size. Contained in a canvas sleeve like that I'd wager it will be closer to months to fully dry.
I love all of these things that are manufactured to block water from coming in doorways; however, that doesn't stop the water from coming in through the walls.
@@YouKnowMeDuh I think the HESCO barriers the military uses are a bit larger than the flood water ones. To add, the military will also fill them with stones and gravel to further increase the odds of bullets and explosives not penetrating fully.
@@YouKnowMeDuh It’s basically like a More easy to build and surprising durable castle, the military ones are also larger, they can protect from artillery, mortars, bullets, grenades, and other small arm fire so pretty handy
remember, even if you have the highest tech flood protection for all your doors and windows, that's not going to matter if your walls aren't water proof
The best thing to do is just start building proper and permanent flood prevention structures by waterways and in all areas that exist within flood planes.
The type of floods we get, you know they're coming. We can't move the house, but we can darn sure drive the car up the hill before the flood water gets too high.
I’m sure that the substrate would be formed in such a way as to guide the water to a dispersion point of some kind like a drainage canal or lake. It wouldn’t just go strait into the ground.
I see a problem with a lot of these, it’s great that the door way is protected, but what about the walls? The basement windows? The crawl space? If water can get into any of those places the protected doorway is of no value
That is true but it can also be assumed that these products are targeted towards people who live in areas that flood regularly where basements aren't common or allowed. Houses is those areas are somewhat built differently than in other areas.
I would think that each barrier will be used for a specific purpose as not one barrier fits all situation and have limits. This seems to just be a general demonstration.
Brick homes have weep holes every 5 to 8 bricks to let moisture out under normal conditions. In flood conditions, they let flood waters in. And then you have windows. Water is coming in.
It works in a lot of places. A house down the road to me has a home made version that attches to their wall outside to divert and even hold back flood water. I have seen it save their house from 2ft of water. Their shop next door to that was flooded.
Regular roads already have problem with cracking because water that gets inside will expand during the winter and destroy the road. Having a road like this will make the problem even worse. These roads probably need to be replaces after just 1 or 2 years.
Even where water doesn't freeze. I wonder if this would cause sinkholes under the concrete? Or to a much lesser extent small voids and make it crack and buckle/collapse in areas on the parking lot.
The real solution would be to plan cities smarter (like the dutch) and make buildings flood proof. All barriers are just measurements because people failed to implement the real solution
@maned wolf with a gmail account Not every city. But there are regions were flooding occurs occasionally and if you do not want to just abandon them, that is the only option you have.
I live in Australia, we use sandbags. That's the way it is, good ideas are invented to be ignored. I'll bet that in 2030 we will still be using sandbags. Also what do these inventions cost?
Well most are made from plastic , so they cost a sht load to the environment. Besides, I'd love to see them try to cover the entire state of Queensland,eh!
You see it constantly; people tryng to reinvent stuff that doesn't need to be reinvented. It's like someone comes along one day and goes "hey guys I know we've been using forks to eat spaghetti this whole time but look at my new invention it's an electric spinning fork that can spin spaghetti twice as fast as a regular fork at the press of a button"
@@redtsun67 Some of these solutions are superior to the old methods because if you have ever tried to deal with water, sometimes you do not have the time or the sand to fill sandbags so either you are prepared or you have mud in the ground level.
Seal round the front door with silicone, then nail a blanket across. Any water that gets through will be filtered by the blanket, so silt will not enter. It should seal the blanket. Get into the house through a window.
these are for small scale floods. best example i can think of is the flood barriers built after the fukushima tsunami. being on average 13 meters tall or the massive flood prevention system in the Netherlands
How much resistance can these car covers take? If there's a flood they're going to be pulling on that a car at probably 50 mph or something crazy like that but you will that strap hold on long enough or will it break?
that's more "flash flooding". Many cars simply have slow flood water rise up on them to submerge them. I'd be more concerned with the pressure of the flood water denting up my body.
@@Sahadi420 Most floodwater doesn't get deep enough for the pressure to cause deformation in the body panels. You don't get to 2 atmospheres of pressure until the water is 33ft deep, after all.
Couple yrs ago, after a flood ruined our local McD's, it was taken down all the way to its foundation. Everything fully rebuilt, all brand new, including a mural of the city hall. The best part, the new flood gates installed to the newly designed doors, was tested like a week or 2 after they just finished building the new McD's. It had flooded again. And the flood proof doors worked! So they were able to open it up on time, just so we can be annoyed again when we dont get our orders made right, lol!
TBH those tubes that absorb water and expand probably work quite well for certain types of flooding. People who live in areas that frequently flood in the US have been filling trash bags with water to help protect doorways and foundations for years.
How can we revolutionise flood damage to cars? "Well how about we just pop 'em in a plastic bag, stick on some bumpers and strap it to a pole?" ......... sorted, that's lunch
3:03 Top mix permiable concrete sounds great and is an innovative design but has two major floor. If gasoline is poured on it, it can literally burn for hours... and in sub-zero conditions, the water held in the concrete can and will freeze, breaking up the entire compound and leaving a crumbled, uneven surface that needs complete replacement. Hopefully continued development will solve these issues.
I’ve looked it up, apparently it’s more resistant to freeze-thaw because the ice has space to fill in rather than pushing against the rock. No idea where the burning idea comes from.
@@evaahh9584 It's already been tested, both freezing and burning. Ice doesn't flow, so it doesn't move into free space, it expands, pushing whatever material is containing the water apart - breaking the material apart, leaving loose rubble. Spilled fuel on the stuff is a harazard and a fireman's nightmare. This is why the stuff has not been put into use yet, even though the idea has been around for a while now.
@@Nemoticon not put into use? Try driving on basically any Dutch highway. It has been in use for 20 years or more (and thus not “developed by a UK company“ either).
The water doesnt tend to stay in the road layer. That's kinda the whole point =) It's going to flow into the substrate before it gets a chance to freeze. The substrate is design to take the expansion. Proper substrate is essential if you are going to use this type of surface. Fire is an issue only if your fire dept is not briefed on how to handle it. I'm guessing that test was just some local FD giving it a go. The good news is that continued development did solve those issues.
Flood guard seems like the most impractical thing on this planet, unless you live in an area that's prone to floods but for $580 and the inconvenience...
@@stmbds you’re going to do this every single time you get back from work? I mean, they even needed 3 people to do it in the video. [Not trying to sound rude or anything]
I do think it’s a little dumb, but usually floods don’t just happen out of nowhere, you’ll get warnings of monsoons or like tropical storms far before the flood actually happens and a flood bad enough to cover your car and damage it probably means you are not going to be going out often or going to work.
@@jodiac Yes. I live in an area prone to flooding, and while we do have advance notice, the amount of flooding is really unpredictable. Even in August the hurricane we got was really bad but surprisingly we didn't get any flooding in the areas that typically do, but other areas that typically don't (in the same city) got it bad. Only a select few of those products would have a chance of working here. Mainly the solutions that can go all the way around your house and the car bag. Honestly, unless you have a garage you can put your car in, I can imagine that someone would slice the bag you put over your car just because they're mad you were more prepared. Might sound irrational, but when I think of the idiots out there who just can't mind their own business...
On the parking lot flood control, are there any erosion issues with all of that water draining off like that? On a side note, places like Mexico City could use something like this for their city since with the place being ceiled over it stops the water from getting to the underground lake that Mexico City was built upon, which is one of the reasons they are having so many problems with their foundation down there. Taking all of that water out of the underground reservoirs/lake without putting any of it back is causing voids to be created. Without the support of that water, the ground will subside and even collapse. Don’t know if they will ever get that problem solved before it is too late to save the city from major damage.
if I recall correctly, the parking lot material has to be laid on a very specific foundation of layers of clay, sand and gravel, to ensure that it doesn't erode away underneath and the ground is able to absorb the water that is being poured onto it. That channels the water out and away to the wider area where it just becomes part of the water-table. I presume - though they didn't mention this in the info I have seen - that they also ensure that the foundation and the asphalt is laid on a slight camber, highest in the middle and sloping down fractionally towards the edges, so that the runoff will happen in a safe direction. Most roads are built on a camber like that anyhow, so they should be able to be relatively easily converted to this new material.
@@flyboy38a What was missed in the video clip and Bethyngalw's answer is the permeable concrete is also structurally weaker. Using it on a parking lot it will break down fairly rapidly instead of a 25 to 50 year life span of regular concrete. These mixes have less actual concrete than normal so are naturally weakened. If you were to set beeswax rods in a grid where you are going to put the concrete then pour regular concrete, with the base built for drainage, the heat of the curing process will melt the beeswax leaving drainage holes through without the major structural loss. beeswax being 100% natural is not going to pollute anything.
Video: Few people have seen these Me who has done work in flood protection: Variations of a lot of these are industry standards and people probably just dont realize they see them every few days.
Would you just abandon your country because it gets wet occasionally? By your logic two thirds of the US should be uninhabited due to the risk of tornadoes, hurricanes or earthquakes, so it's really just a silly thing you said isn't it?
@@krashd well, there are plenty of people that relocate to different countries because of bad climate in their own. But my point was about _area_ not about country. At the end, it is all about balance - you could settle in a higher place, but couldn't afford it.
I think the permeable concrete is a pretty solid idea, but the biggest issue that I can think of is that the concrete may crack easier than traditional concrete if water freezes inside the concrete
I've used Quick Dam a few times for my house and recently discovered that salt water will cause the barrier to release it's water. We came back to the house when the tide receded and discovered nearly all our Quick Dam bags had deflated and floated away.
I've heard of a red-colored highway in Germany that stays dry even during heavy rains. Was curious about how they did it. That Topmix Permeable concrete would explain it.
If I fail my exam, I'll make it my life's purpose to find the devs who programmed UA-cam recommendations and do terrible things to them. Nice anti-flood inventions tho.
The hesco blocks, plastic barriers, absorbent bags, all of those are useful. The hesco blocks will absolutely protect your entire house, and the other two can divert water in a lesser flooding event.
What is needed to kept plants from growing through the topmix pavement? I mean they can even push through normal road surfaces. What would keep the from pushing through porous surfaces that get tham acces of water and nutrients? 8:37 Why not attach some straps at the end that get rolled up. You then just grab the straps and walk along making the barrier unroll itself. So you don't have to unroll this being hunched over.
I've been to a lot of flooding areas for work n clean up n if thay have this technology how is it that I haven't seen it use in this places 🤔 if it's all about safety n saving properties why hasn't it been used can anyone tell me this?
Price is most likely one of them, and people not taking thing seriously until they happen is another big one. Look at how many people freaked out early 2020 and panic bought everything because they didn't stockpile anything, so once it looked like shit was really about to hit the fan they all became last minute preppers
As the two above me said, funding, but also by the looks a few of these are still in developmental stages and a few you can tell aren’t really supposed to be for the average person.
Some of those techs would be good for tropical storm and hurricane weather. Kinda makes you wonder why some of those aren't a thing in the US... bad for business for Home Depot and Lowe's perhaps?
Interesting, but I think some of them wouldn't stand up well when real world tested and others would have short fail times. The door block methods may be good for some structures, but most homes aren't built to be submerged. Water will come through the walls. A lot slower yes, so if the flooding is short, then okay. If it goes one for a while though, it'll still get through eventually. Also, that pavement one that allows vast quantities of water to flow through it seems like a terrible idea. Sure, it may help in minor flooding conditions, but water under roads always spells disaster. Has the company done extensive testing to see how allowing so much water through will affect sink hole formations? All that water flowing through is going into the ground underneath and fast flowing water takes soil with it. That's how bridges fail in floods. It's like paying to someday have cars fall through the pavement in your parking lot.
Presumably, the houses themselves are built to resist water ingress, but the doors aren't. Something I could easily see happening on a known flood plain Permeable pavement isn't really a means of avoiding flood damage directly. It's more to reduce the risk of floods in general by increasing the local storage of rainwater (Instead of funneling it all immediately into storm drains). What they don't mention is the concrete is poured over a similarly permeable foundation that eventually leads to catchment ponds or drains. It's a pretty clever idea, but the big problem is that if the concrete freezes while holding water, it's wrecked.
@@watchm4ker I honestly don't think they change construction methods for different flood zones. They typically drop the land values and such so poor people tend to buy in those areas. It's like how in tornado and hurricane zones they still build houses that have overhanging roofs that the wind takes ahold of to rip the house open like a tin can. I guess they do anchor them to the foundation, but that's really only so good. I thought about an underlayment for the pavement, but you end up in the same place as before. Either it's directly under the pavement and you end up with pooling because it has to funnel the water to a drain anyways, or it's down a ways to give more capacity, but then you end up with the dirt between the cement and the pavement being displaced and you just end up with a shallower sinkhole. In any event, multiple layers would make the cost extraordinarily higher than the regular pavement method, which would greatly reduce it's popularity. Especially as it would only help to a certain extent. Even if the ansorbamcy rate is increased by quite a bit, the ground and even drain systems have limits as to how much they can absorb, so when the water reaches a certain level, and probably not that high, it will simply fail to keep absorbing. It's an interesting idea, but has some major fundamental challenges and I really don't trust it much past it's fancy display of dumping a bunch of water on a single spot.
@@haddow777 Think of it like a catchment pond. The water will have to drain eventually, but it gives more time for the drain network to flush out a sudden shower, rather than dumping it all at once.
@@watchm4ker I understand the benefit. I am just doubting they have really looked into soil movement. Any water flowing in any great amount under roads will remove soil and create a sink hole. It's a simple fact. Unless they are applying pavement several feet thick, they will either have to rely on soil or some hard surface, which will ultimately limit it's intake of water.
When I deployed that little breeze couldn't do anything at all. Then we build a wall and prevented it from happening again. As the US state declared recently with an even stronger hurricane hitting? The entire sea flood defenses held. The stuff in the video is complete crap but? Very hilarious.
You know you are procrastinating studying math too much when you start watching anti-flood inventions tier list.
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@@anuk1311 lol
too accurate wtf
Im having an exam today and watching this😭😭
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Countries who barely have floods : create a super advance technologies to avoid flood from getting to their house.
Countries who have flood all year round : piles of sand bags from WW1
You know how to hack but not how to read simple articles on the internet?? Lol
Go read up on floods in Germany for example
@@Katerynale
No i mean like, although these are wrong info, it's just for humor purposes
@@Katerynale well, practically no one who hacks uses "Hacker" as a username.
Lol
Ehhhmmm sorry But look at the Deltaworks in The Netherlands!
The permeable concrete would work in warmer climates, but if its installed in any areas with freezing weather it would break extremely quickly due to ice formation within the concrete itself
That's actually an astute observation. But, even where I live, we've been getting colder winters. So even though it's typically a warm climate here we'd have issues too.
Unless you have a large drainage system that is under 100% of the concrete all you are going to do is erode the sub-soil and create a sinkhole
@@ryanbelcher396 a good point but likely you use a specific type of subgrade to help with that. Enough compacted material like possibly gravel and you'd be hard pressed to have to replace the subgrade before the concrete
@@ryanbelcher396 True, but the reality of sand, silt, grime and mossy/fungal growth within the material will always make it so that moisture and water is held within and so will likely always be a problem below freezing conditions.
I've seen permeable concrete in use in Maryland and freezing occurs there.
As someone living in area that always flood I would say only few of these are practical other are just fancy rich people stuff. Also This is one of the most peaceful flood I've ever seen, In my place the water is like a mini tsunami.
Right?! Some of these are just made to get fundings
Which ones would you say are most practical?
@@doltBmB Depending on what you're protecting. If the government the easiest and cheapest would be HESCO floodline and if they have extra money they could spent on the topmix permiable. Function is the same to slow down water from flowing to other area. If you're a mall CEO Anggeres SCFB is good to protect water from flowing to underground parking. But if you're just a simple civilian and have a little extra money all of these are useless except The StormMesister as it protect water from flowing into the house.
Also FYI flood in my place are so bad that the normal water level are 1m or 4 feet tall the highest level was 2 to 3 meter (around 8 feet tall) not to mention the water flow so fast. There's cases where people lost their lives during the flood. Sorry but all this appliances are child's play to my kind of flood.
@@ShizuCatt What area are you from with 3 meter flood levels?
Hot take: Wetlands. Natural flood protection with benefits all year round, from Increased biodiversity to lower Surrounding temps in hotter months. Like, the best way to both prevent and lessen the Damage of flooding is to restore and protect wetlands.
My sister lives in mountains and has gotten flooded twice in 15 years. What would you suggest as far as protecting wetlands on top of mountains?
@@blcouch Wetlands exist on mountains though. Bogs, marshes, they kind of can exist at any elevation. So, I would suggest not living in the lowest part of a valley, not living in a previously existing lake that was drained by humans, designing proper housing on mountainsides with the correct grading, and yes, keeping marshlands where they are and using them as protection rather than destroying them to fit in more buildings.
The best way to test these inventions is in an actual real life environment (hurricane or tropical storm) not a controlled environment.
You can see the real time usage during flood in the video not only experiment .
@@Bamon_199 they looked more like they were in controlled environments.
@@kd7334 yeah you can check video on real life environment
For sure, they must be shamed for not waiting for a natural disaster to show off their capitalistic, penny pinching, worker abusing causing product. It’s false advertising 😡
@@zoximrai2207 Um, that is not what my comment... Nevermind, to each their own.
The 'Boxwall' was definitely the smartest looking of the designs. Affordable effective solution, easy to install and store. I imagine the design size could be expanded upon for a variety of applications. Thank you for sharing.
the flood blocks also seem handy. might be even a option to use those two mixed. the boxwall seem to be ready faster but you can build the floodblock higher and sturdier.
0:54 as a structural engineering student, I can't really say it's a great idea to start attaching a potential side load of a few kips directy pulling to the side on columns that weren't designed for that. Mostly an issue with smaller columns in structures with smaller importance factor values, but yeah, not the best, I don't think.
Then again, by the time that load is applied (due to water trying to rip it away), that structure probably already has *other* issues to worry about.
Huh
@@bofa2382 He's saying that tethering a car-sized pool floaty to a loadbearing column when the building is being washed away in a river.. might not be the most innovative of actions...
@@SeedlingNL oh ok thx
also how did you reply so fast
@Tara Dactyle LOL
Hey bro I wanted to ask you that , is structural engineering, a good career to be in it , as I also want to pursue for it .
Some good ideas here, they can keep the water from coming through the doors but what happens when it starts coming out of your toilet? Flood water always comes through the sewers and once it reaches the height of any down stairs toilets it pours over the bowl.
you use anti flood doors to keep it inside toilet, just don't let kids go to the toilet :D
Just close the lid. Problem solved.
@@smashexentertainment676 ...water can pour through the lid, it's not like toilet seats are completely watertight when closed
doing that is like trusting school glue to keep a door closed if someone tries to open it
just flush it. lol
No worries, the dogs said they can handle it.
The topmix permeable sounds like a good thing for any place that never reaches freezing temperature.
Didn't the video say they were from the UK? If so, it drops below freezing there regularly enough. It would be interested; however, to see what the effects of constant freezing and thawing would do to the mix over time.
@Rob Rochon Except the road surface is built upon grating that drains into the storm sewers.
Creativity is as overflowing as the waters of the sea. Keep going
The quick dam is pretty great. I’m using on to keep my driveway safe from notable amounts of water flooding my garage. I have no idea if it will dry out or if I’ll have to throw it away but it’s doing a great job.
It will need to be thrown away after 6 years or so
Now I can take a bath standing up
If I had to guess those things are filled with those silica gel beads that swell when soaked. You know the ones that are like large grains of sand when dry but are good sized marbles after soaking for a while. I've dried those things out before on a tray but it can take a few weeks for them to get back down to their original size. Contained in a canvas sleeve like that I'd wager it will be closer to months to fully dry.
@@zacharyknollman5731 thats called swimming
I love all of these things that are manufactured to block water from coming in doorways; however, that doesn't stop the water from coming in through the walls.
Exactly , or even air vents
Unless of course, you're able to block all around the entire house..
@@user-B_8 did you watch the video?
Nor do they save precious crops and livestock. But the farmer's door is dry. So, all good!
theres a thing called waterproofing walls
Hesco is also used for military purposes. Easy, especially in the desert, to use them to make bulletproof structures
Oh, that's really neat. Not the intended use, I'd suppose, but there's nothing wrong with adapting products for new applications.
@@YouKnowMeDuh I think the HESCO barriers the military uses are a bit larger than the flood water ones. To add, the military will also fill them with stones and gravel to further increase the odds of bullets and explosives not penetrating fully.
@@YouKnowMeDuh It’s basically like a More easy to build and surprising durable castle, the military ones are also larger, they can protect from artillery, mortars, bullets, grenades, and other small arm fire so pretty handy
Now you can protect yourself not only from floods but terrorist attacks as well!
@Yitpo When it comes to the military, never underestimate their paranoia.
remember, even if you have the highest tech flood protection for all your doors and windows, that's not going to matter if your walls aren't water proof
you need walls out of floodblocks ;) :D
Not everywhere is america
We bought quickdams and have them on standby. Have used them once, and it was great!
The best thing to do is just start building proper and permanent flood prevention structures by waterways and in all areas that exist within flood planes.
No we should all drive ev cars to stop global warming lmao
@@1013VS hahaha so they say
0:21
"Fortunately, for 580 dollars, you can buy your car a blanket."
Probably more than id spend on a car :D
The type of floods we get, you know they're coming. We can't move the house, but we can darn sure drive the car up the hill before the flood water gets too high.
You have to start somewhere!! Hopefully, this will catch on & grow to a company to help globally
All really unique and promising products. Thanks for taking the time to make up this list!
The permeable pavement with the sinkhole under it worries me a lil, but all in all- Very excellent stuff :)
I’m sure that the substrate would be formed in such a way as to guide the water to a dispersion point of some kind like a drainage canal or lake. It wouldn’t just go strait into the ground.
None of these solutions including this is 100% water proof. They are all meant to help to an extent. None of them are tsunamis proof.
@@SuryaAvantsaTheAwesomeThree Coincidently, nothing is tsunami proof! :) Exit! Stage left.
The only problem is that it can't work with cold climates
@@jsmythib living on Everest is tsunami proof. They can’t reach you if you’re inland and high up.
the concrete seems amazing to me. it drinks an incredible amount of water, but i'm curious there's no mention of where does this water go ? 🤔
I would imagine sink holes would become a problem.
Yea, either the concrete never properly dries or something else bad happens
@@mr.cantsay You know how when it floods on dirt there's always huge sink holes? oh wait, nevermind, that's not how drainage works normally.
It obviously goes to the 4th dimension
Inside the concrete?b
Each of his videos is uplifting, does everyone agree with this?
Lol
Dang! Ingenious! God bless!!!
UA-cam recommendation really knows what video for me to watch at 2AM
I see a problem with a lot of these, it’s great that the door way is protected, but what about the walls? The basement windows? The crawl space? If water can get into any of those places the protected doorway is of no value
In the case of many urban houses protecting the door way would be enough to prevent damage.
That is true but it can also be assumed that these products are targeted towards people who live in areas that flood regularly where basements aren't common or allowed. Houses is those areas are somewhat built differently than in other areas.
I have never seen a house with a basement
Exact thought, in some areas dam water come through drainage and at homes through tiles, these won't work in such cases!
@@weg5856 wow there are lots of them.
I would think that each barrier will be used for a specific purpose as not one barrier fits all situation and have limits. This seems to just be a general demonstration.
Lol..love how people think that by blocking a doorway will keep the water out. Unless your whole house is water tight it's coming in.
I know. U beat me to it with this post haha
Yep. Many poorly prefab houses have poor joints with large gaps that will allow the ingress of water.
Brick homes have weep holes every 5 to 8 bricks to let moisture out under normal conditions. In flood conditions, they let flood waters in. And then you have windows. Water is coming in.
It works in a lot of places. A house down the road to me has a home made version that attches to their wall outside to divert and even hold back flood water. I have seen it save their house from 2ft of water. Their shop next door to that was flooded.
It will come up through the drains.
first video of this kind that is actually useful full of really good inventions practicable in population protection cases.
I never understand the "is patented" comment. These things should not be patented as they can save lifes
These anti flood device also can be used to build instant swimming pool
Topmix should be made mandatory in larger cities as it would help recharge the water table as well-especially in low lying areas and underpasses
Regular roads already have problem with cracking because water that gets inside will expand during the winter and destroy the road. Having a road like this will make the problem even worse. These roads probably need to be replaces after just 1 or 2 years.
Even where water doesn't freeze. I wonder if this would cause sinkholes under the concrete? Or to a much lesser extent small voids and make it crack and buckle/collapse in areas on the parking lot.
Yep, those water gate dams are awsome too
As always, liberals want to "mandate" everything. How does it feel to be a superior fascist?
@@mynameisgladiator1933 lol still butthurt about the mask mandate I take it
The real solution would be to plan cities smarter (like the dutch) and make buildings flood proof. All barriers are just measurements because people failed to implement the real solution
@maned wolf with a gmail account Not every city. But there are regions were flooding occurs occasionally and if you do not want to just abandon them, that is the only option you have.
JUST BUILD A WALL
@@Arcaryon and who’s paying
@@vexs4883 Mostly the locals. The state doesn’t cover everything, not in such a situation.
@@Arcaryon yea the locals aren’t going to pay reconstructing and entire city or whatever lol
These will be some of the most profitable companies in the coming years.
Imagine combining all of these and having the mega anti flood mechanism😂
I live in Australia, we use sandbags. That's the way it is, good ideas are invented to be ignored.
I'll bet that in 2030 we will still be using sandbags.
Also what do these inventions cost?
Indeed.
But have you tried filling the sandbags with diamonds and other precious metals? 😂
Well most are made from plastic , so they cost a sht load to the environment.
Besides, I'd love to see them try to cover the entire state of Queensland,eh!
You see it constantly; people tryng to reinvent stuff that doesn't need to be reinvented. It's like someone comes along one day and goes "hey guys I know we've been using forks to eat spaghetti this whole time but look at my new invention it's an electric spinning fork that can spin spaghetti twice as fast as a regular fork at the press of a button"
@@redtsun67 Some of these solutions are superior to the old methods because if you have ever tried to deal with water, sometimes you do not have the time or the sand to fill sandbags so either you are prepared or you have mud in the ground level.
Seal round the front door with silicone, then nail a blanket across. Any water that gets through will be filtered by the blanket, so silt will not enter. It should seal the blanket. Get into the house through a window.
I tried cut tape nailing my Britta filter instead on a blanket... Now my filter is broken!
what if the water is higher than the equipment you installed, because floods in Jakarta sometimes drown houses.
Same in Australia and the US.
Then just pray, of you know how
Welp the inventions here aren't suppose to stop a flood that is bigger than a house
Tape them twice as high using duct tape
these are for small scale floods. best example i can think of is the flood barriers built after the fukushima tsunami. being on average 13 meters tall or the massive flood prevention system in the Netherlands
My personal favorite anti-flood trick: living on a mountain. :3
Nice video, The concrete parking technology was really good!
How much resistance can these car covers take? If there's a flood they're going to be pulling on that a car at probably 50 mph or something crazy like that but you will that strap hold on long enough or will it break?
that's more "flash flooding". Many cars simply have slow flood water rise up on them to submerge them.
I'd be more concerned with the pressure of the flood water denting up my body.
@@Sahadi420 Most floodwater doesn't get deep enough for the pressure to cause deformation in the body panels. You don't get to 2 atmospheres of pressure until the water is 33ft deep, after all.
Lmfao 50 mph seems like a bit much lol.
3:20 In the Netherlands we call it ZOAB. The whole Dutch road netwerk is made of it. And we have our dams and waterprotection.
Couple yrs ago, after a flood ruined our local McD's, it was taken down all the way to its foundation. Everything fully rebuilt, all brand new, including a mural of the city hall.
The best part, the new flood gates installed to the newly designed doors, was tested like a week or 2 after they just finished building the new McD's. It had flooded again. And the flood proof doors worked! So they were able to open it up on time, just so we can be annoyed again when we dont get our orders made right, lol!
But the ice cream machine still broke though 😕
@@firedup692 Yep 🤣
TBH those tubes that absorb water and expand probably work quite well for certain types of flooding. People who live in areas that frequently flood in the US have been filling trash bags with water to help protect doorways and foundations for years.
The last one reminds me of super size LEGOs. I’ve watched my son build things like that for 12 years. 😁💞
I'm one of the "FEW" people that has seen all of these. I've seen them probably 3 or 4 times!
Shut up Robert
@@liamwindsor5854 shut up liam
How can we revolutionise flood damage to cars?
"Well how about we just pop 'em in a plastic bag, stick on some bumpers and strap it to a pole?"
......... sorted, that's lunch
Ziplock to the rescue!!!
The British hesco barrier is amazing it also stops bullets they were/are used in Iraq on military installations
Its almost like hitting a bag of sand with a bullet is the equivalent to hitting the ground 🤔
Florida needs these
That concrete is pretty cool.
3:03 Top mix permiable concrete sounds great and is an innovative design but has two major floor. If gasoline is poured on it, it can literally burn for hours... and in sub-zero conditions, the water held in the concrete can and will freeze, breaking up the entire compound and leaving a crumbled, uneven surface that needs complete replacement. Hopefully continued development will solve these issues.
I’ve looked it up, apparently it’s more resistant to freeze-thaw because the ice has space to fill in rather than pushing against the rock. No idea where the burning idea comes from.
@@evaahh9584 It's already been tested, both freezing and burning. Ice doesn't flow, so it doesn't move into free space, it expands, pushing whatever material is containing the water apart - breaking the material apart, leaving loose rubble. Spilled fuel on the stuff is a harazard and a fireman's nightmare. This is why the stuff has not been put into use yet, even though the idea has been around for a while now.
@@Nemoticon not put into use? Try driving on basically any Dutch highway. It has been in use for 20 years or more (and thus not “developed by a UK company“ either).
The water doesnt tend to stay in the road layer. That's kinda the whole point =) It's going to flow into the substrate before it gets a chance to freeze. The substrate is design to take the expansion. Proper substrate is essential if you are going to use this type of surface. Fire is an issue only if your fire dept is not briefed on how to handle it. I'm guessing that test was just some local FD giving it a go. The good news is that continued development did solve those issues.
@@williamjenkins4913 It will always get clogged with debris, grind and sediment that will cause it to hold water.
Flood guard seems like the most impractical thing on this planet, unless you live in an area that's prone to floods but for $580 and the inconvenience...
Yeah, it feels like "take the house, take the kids and dog, just not my porsche "
flooded cars are mostly unusable so if you wanna save your new car, this is very practical
@@stmbds you’re going to do this every single time you get back from work?
I mean, they even needed 3 people to do it in the video.
[Not trying to sound rude or anything]
I do think it’s a little dumb, but usually floods don’t just happen out of nowhere, you’ll get warnings of monsoons or like tropical storms far before the flood actually happens and a flood bad enough to cover your car and damage it probably means you are not going to be going out often or going to work.
@@jodiac Yes. I live in an area prone to flooding, and while we do have advance notice, the amount of flooding is really unpredictable. Even in August the hurricane we got was really bad but surprisingly we didn't get any flooding in the areas that typically do, but other areas that typically don't (in the same city) got it bad. Only a select few of those products would have a chance of working here. Mainly the solutions that can go all the way around your house and the car bag.
Honestly, unless you have a garage you can put your car in, I can imagine that someone would slice the bag you put over your car just because they're mad you were more prepared. Might sound irrational, but when I think of the idiots out there who just can't mind their own business...
StormMeister hands down the best most logical one for homes. I wonder if they have something for Garages and regular Windows.
Is anybody else thinking that these could be turned into mini swimming pools?
Everyone in Florida needs this
4:57
I'm european. awesome to see every person living here has storm protective windows.
On the parking lot flood control, are there any erosion issues with all of that water draining off like that? On a side note, places like Mexico City could use something like this for their city since with the place being ceiled over it stops the water from getting to the underground lake that Mexico City was built upon, which is one of the reasons they are having so many problems with their foundation down there. Taking all of that water out of the underground reservoirs/lake without putting any of it back is causing voids to be created. Without the support of that water, the ground will subside and even collapse. Don’t know if they will ever get that problem solved before it is too late to save the city from major damage.
EARTH IS DYING SLOWLY END OF THE WORLD IS UNSTOPABLE
@@Noone-vv9yb of course the earth will die, we’re just speeding it up a little
if I recall correctly, the parking lot material has to be laid on a very specific foundation of layers of clay, sand and gravel, to ensure that it doesn't erode away underneath and the ground is able to absorb the water that is being poured onto it. That channels the water out and away to the wider area where it just becomes part of the water-table. I presume - though they didn't mention this in the info I have seen - that they also ensure that the foundation and the asphalt is laid on a slight camber, highest in the middle and sloping down fractionally towards the edges, so that the runoff will happen in a safe direction. Most roads are built on a camber like that anyhow, so they should be able to be relatively easily converted to this new material.
@@bethyngalw Thanks for the update.
@@flyboy38a What was missed in the video clip and Bethyngalw's answer is the permeable concrete is also structurally weaker. Using it on a parking lot it will break down fairly rapidly instead of a 25 to 50 year life span of regular concrete. These mixes have less actual concrete than normal so are naturally weakened. If you were to set beeswax rods in a grid where you are going to put the concrete then pour regular concrete, with the base built for drainage, the heat of the curing process will melt the beeswax leaving drainage holes through without the major structural loss. beeswax being 100% natural is not going to pollute anything.
Video: Few people have seen these
Me who has done work in flood protection: Variations of a lot of these are industry standards and people probably just dont realize they see them every few days.
Just makes me wonder how many of these products go bought for hurricane Ian
That beat for the first Flood Guard thing, ive heard it so many times, and its still enjoyable to listen to
Looks cool, but ultimately best invention against flooding is not living in areas where it might happen...
Very true
Louisiana population 0
Would you just abandon your country because it gets wet occasionally? By your logic two thirds of the US should be uninhabited due to the risk of tornadoes, hurricanes or earthquakes, so it's really just a silly thing you said isn't it?
@@krashd well, there are plenty of people that relocate to different countries because of bad climate in their own. But my point was about _area_ not about country. At the end, it is all about balance - you could settle in a higher place, but couldn't afford it.
Need to name one of these "Dam-It"
Your dam right
I think the permeable concrete is a pretty solid idea, but the biggest issue that I can think of is that the concrete may crack easier than traditional concrete if water freezes inside the concrete
It's probably better in places like Florida where it doesn't usually get cold enough to freeze.
This needs to be given to the people for free
I’m very pleased with my new fridge magnet.
So far I’ve got twelve fridges.
What about the Halo rings?
No reply and only one like .. 😐
Imma give u one reply and two likes
What about the droid attack on the Wookies
Wrong Flood.
@@iisunshixe6626 silence
Do you have any inventions for a "Mother in-law barrier?"... She tends to come in like a flood.
😆 😆😆
I'd really like to know how well that absorbent parking lot can handle a cold snap after it absorbs a lot of water
BC needs these RN.
Me, in a town that hasn't had a flood since '86: We need some of those!
Good point, there might be a huge flood unexpectedly
I've used Quick Dam a few times for my house and recently discovered that salt water will cause the barrier to release it's water. We came back to the house when the tide receded and discovered nearly all our Quick Dam bags had deflated and floated away.
Lego-boat OR flood protection OR DIY instant bath/mini pool.
YOU DECIDE!
I've heard of a red-colored highway in Germany that stays dry even during heavy rains. Was curious about how they did it. That Topmix Permeable concrete would explain it.
Perhaps it's hydrophobic.
Nice ideas of making portable swimming pools.
I don't even get flooding in my area but i enjoyed the video
If I fail my exam, I'll make it my life's purpose to find the devs who programmed UA-cam recommendations and do terrible things to them.
Nice anti-flood inventions tho.
Your going about this the wrong way. Find a class that teaches you about flood protection and you'll be 💯
@@pawpatrolnews Searching up flood protection courses as we speak. Thanks buddy!
@@Mo-ig4gy 😎
Me: makes a wall out of foot long sponges
Unless your entire house is waterproof none of these are useful.
Exactly
The hesco blocks, plastic barriers, absorbent bags, all of those are useful.
The hesco blocks will absolutely protect your entire house, and the other two can divert water in a lesser flooding event.
It's very useful, Thanks for giving me more knowlegde.
Noah and the boys been real quiet since this dropped
What is needed to kept plants from growing through the topmix pavement? I mean they can even push through normal road surfaces. What would keep the from pushing through porous surfaces that get tham acces of water and nutrients?
8:37 Why not attach some straps at the end that get rolled up. You then just grab the straps and walk along making the barrier unroll itself. So you don't have to unroll this being hunched over.
im sure getting driven on every single day does the job for 90% of the area, the others you just use hire a crew to do the sides once a month
Malaysian: WHY WE DIDN'T THINK OF THIS BEFORE
Me: *facepalms*
This technologies are needed in Kerala now
Wow. City planners and home owners maybe need to watch this video.
Now, 1M+ viewers will know!
Malaysians now: 💳💥 💳💥💳💥
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whenever i watch your videos, i want to eat crackers
I've been to a lot of flooding areas for work n clean up n if thay have this technology how is it that I haven't seen it use in this places 🤔 if it's all about safety n saving properties why hasn't it been used can anyone tell me this?
Price is most likely one of them, and people not taking thing seriously until they happen is another big one. Look at how many people freaked out early 2020 and panic bought everything because they didn't stockpile anything, so once it looked like shit was really about to hit the fan they all became last minute preppers
Areas that flood the most tend to be low income. Residents do not have funding.
As the two above me said, funding, but also by the looks a few of these are still in developmental stages and a few you can tell aren’t really supposed to be for the average person.
Every japanese / chinese invention only creates more plastic waste which ends up in the sea. Thanks for that!
I like these because they are fast and easy to install 🙂
Some of those techs would be good for tropical storm and hurricane weather. Kinda makes you wonder why some of those aren't a thing in the US... bad for business for Home Depot and Lowe's perhaps?
And FEMA.
Interesting, but I think some of them wouldn't stand up well when real world tested and others would have short fail times.
The door block methods may be good for some structures, but most homes aren't built to be submerged. Water will come through the walls. A lot slower yes, so if the flooding is short, then okay. If it goes one for a while though, it'll still get through eventually.
Also, that pavement one that allows vast quantities of water to flow through it seems like a terrible idea. Sure, it may help in minor flooding conditions, but water under roads always spells disaster. Has the company done extensive testing to see how allowing so much water through will affect sink hole formations? All that water flowing through is going into the ground underneath and fast flowing water takes soil with it. That's how bridges fail in floods. It's like paying to someday have cars fall through the pavement in your parking lot.
Presumably, the houses themselves are built to resist water ingress, but the doors aren't. Something I could easily see happening on a known flood plain
Permeable pavement isn't really a means of avoiding flood damage directly. It's more to reduce the risk of floods in general by increasing the local storage of rainwater (Instead of funneling it all immediately into storm drains). What they don't mention is the concrete is poured over a similarly permeable foundation that eventually leads to catchment ponds or drains.
It's a pretty clever idea, but the big problem is that if the concrete freezes while holding water, it's wrecked.
@@watchm4ker I honestly don't think they change construction methods for different flood zones. They typically drop the land values and such so poor people tend to buy in those areas. It's like how in tornado and hurricane zones they still build houses that have overhanging roofs that the wind takes ahold of to rip the house open like a tin can. I guess they do anchor them to the foundation, but that's really only so good.
I thought about an underlayment for the pavement, but you end up in the same place as before. Either it's directly under the pavement and you end up with pooling because it has to funnel the water to a drain anyways, or it's down a ways to give more capacity, but then you end up with the dirt between the cement and the pavement being displaced and you just end up with a shallower sinkhole.
In any event, multiple layers would make the cost extraordinarily higher than the regular pavement method, which would greatly reduce it's popularity. Especially as it would only help to a certain extent. Even if the ansorbamcy rate is increased by quite a bit, the ground and even drain systems have limits as to how much they can absorb, so when the water reaches a certain level, and probably not that high, it will simply fail to keep absorbing.
It's an interesting idea, but has some major fundamental challenges and I really don't trust it much past it's fancy display of dumping a bunch of water on a single spot.
@@haddow777 Think of it like a catchment pond. The water will have to drain eventually, but it gives more time for the drain network to flush out a sudden shower, rather than dumping it all at once.
@@watchm4ker I understand the benefit. I am just doubting they have really looked into soil movement. Any water flowing in any great amount under roads will remove soil and create a sink hole. It's a simple fact.
Unless they are applying pavement several feet thick, they will either have to rely on soil or some hard surface, which will ultimately limit it's intake of water.
I have seen what Katrina could do I'm not trusting any of this shit.
When I deployed that little breeze couldn't do anything at all. Then we build a wall and prevented it from happening again. As the US state declared recently with an even stronger hurricane hitting? The entire sea flood defenses held. The stuff in the video is complete crap but? Very hilarious.
Actually some areas nearby my state had a devastating flood and it still hasn’t stopped,it was so devastating my moms friends house got affected too.
Whole malayalis would be happy by watching this
SUCH İNFLUENTAL INVENTİONS ARE REALLY NEEDED AND MUST HAVE!
Well that is cool (or dry) stuff. Lots of interesting solutions. Way better than cleaning the mess afterwards. Stay dry.
I started drooling watching this lmaooo zoning out
I like these inventions.
that orange L shaped one looked most good
also, bay area buggs, chills, and tyler secure team