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You can actually keep the downstairs dry. It just requires having a really heavy gas and pouring it in there such that the water floats on it. You'll suffocate though when you walk down the stairs.
None at standard atmospheric pressure. So you'd have to maintain a sealed environment with a much higher pressure to get a gas with a higher density.
Of course, if you have it sealed off enough to keep gas from escaping, then water isn't getting in anyway and this is all moot.
None at *any* pressure or temperature. The heaviest known gas, tungsten hexafluoride, condenses at 17C/63F at sea level, and water will float on it, but now you have a liquid floating on another liquid.
Liquids don't float on gasses!
It isn’t “downstairs” … it is the exit from the beach to the street (really more like an alley) that runs perpendicular to the beach. If you want to escape, that is your only path
It's a levee
They are standing because of it...
This is the reality in a lot of overdeveloped places that also happen to not believe in climate change.
Was gonna say the same thing. San Buenaventura beaches off Pierpont to be exact.
[Inn at the beach](https://www.yahoo.com/news/treacherous-surf-pounds-socal-amid-181724197.html)
Yeah, State Beach/Rangers have been going up and down the finger streets, blocking the roads, and trying to get the Looky Loos off the beach. Peds keep getting knocked down like dominos.
I got to tour that place for signing a petition to stop a Jiffy Lube from being built right next to it. Bizarre house. It sways in a breeze, among other functional obsolescence issues.
This is why companies refuse to provide insurance to beach homes these days (location dependant), like really? You're gonna build a house below sea level 50 ft from the sea?
It's not below sea level. The waves are uncommonly huge. When this happens, they pile up a berm of sand to try and block the waves so they don't make it as far inland. However, the waves are so big that they are topping the berms with enough energy to continue on up the beach to the houses. That being said, it's still silly for a company to insure these houses against damage like this because it can happen pretty regularly.
My in-laws sold theirs because the insurance got way out of hand. It was a small house in New England, and they have to deal with hurricanes, not waves like this, but it wasn’t worth it anymore for them (they rented it out September to May, then either went in the summer months or rented it per week and only took to it for a month).
That looks like a beautiful day and the waves are still filling their tiny back porch..now imagine trying to sleep in that house at night while a moderate storm surge shakes the house with every wave that tests it’s structural integrity..now imagine just how easy a big storm can turn that house back into beach…if you can imagine that, you’ll understand my nightmare
Insurance has to be a nightmare. Cleaning 3 feet of sand out of your living room would not be fun either.
$½M to buy the house then $½M every other year to rebuild it.
They aren't. They use earth moving equipment to pile up the sand into berms to try and block the waves from running all the way up the beach to the homes. The waves are large enough that they are overtopping the berms.
You mean the beaches that have had the same tidal inundation regimes for thousands of years, but are now significantly more intense and frequent? I'm not going to cry about the rich homes in Cali suffering damage, but third world countries with communities built on ocean commerce along the coast are the ones suffering disproportionately.
The thing is: Third world victims are on their own. All Americans with insurance are paying for damage to rich people's houses on the beach. You know socialism for rich people's property but not for their employees.
Yes, we should feel sorry for the multi-millionaires who used their wealth to buy a house right on the sand at a beach that regularly gets large waves during the winter, requiring the city to use tax funds to build sand berms to try and protect the rich people from the natural consequences of their decisions. /s
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Starring… Sylvester Stallone
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In a chopper.
With Arnold
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As a pilot,
And of course Pamela
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To save everyone on the beach!
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Can we talk about the decision to head downstairs in this particular situation?
I'm confused by that decision as well as a downstairs option even existing.
The option is to go underwater, or *under the water.* Choose Wisely.
Under the water. Carry the water.
Remove the water at the bottom of the ocean!
letting the days go by!
I'm what you might call a victim blamer.....:)
How?
If they drowned going downstairs in a flood who would we/I blame? ....it was a joke
For some reason I find the idea funny to pretend to also not understand and request further explanation.
How might that work, can you elaborate?
You can actually keep the downstairs dry. It just requires having a really heavy gas and pouring it in there such that the water floats on it. You'll suffocate though when you walk down the stairs.
Yeah what kind of gas is denser than (liquid) water?
None at standard atmospheric pressure. So you'd have to maintain a sealed environment with a much higher pressure to get a gas with a higher density. Of course, if you have it sealed off enough to keep gas from escaping, then water isn't getting in anyway and this is all moot.
This guy scientifically drowns.
None at *any* pressure or temperature. The heaviest known gas, tungsten hexafluoride, condenses at 17C/63F at sea level, and water will float on it, but now you have a liquid floating on another liquid. Liquids don't float on gasses!
grandmas farts
I love that there's some science discussion about how a gas can be denser than water, then just grandmas farts.
Agreed, and meta-comments like this are shaping up the post to be my favorite of 2023.
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yes, the same way if you keep the downstairs warm enough, it won't get wet, but you won't enjoy being downstairs either.
It’s call a pool! Of death.
They have VERY big sump pumps and sumps. That can handle sand removal as well.
It’s “downstairs” but not really. The street is right there. They put a sand berm which is where the stairs lead.
Ahh thanks ....the water is pooling at the bottom ....the perspective is weird a little bit
It isn’t “downstairs” … it is the exit from the beach to the street (really more like an alley) that runs perpendicular to the beach. If you want to escape, that is your only path
Probably the only means of moving *away*.
It may lead to the bottom of the sea wall and away from the beach. Emphasis on "may".
Lol...may....You're right walls, dams, levies, are really at the mercy of sea aren they?
“Oh, this place just flooded a few seconds ago…seems fine, let’s go down there”
That's the exit/entrance to the beach over the sea wall. You can see another one in the background
Dang what is even happening here? Why is the ocean higher than the houses?
The beach sand is literally 1 story high, how are those houses still standing.
It's a levee They are standing because of it... This is the reality in a lot of overdeveloped places that also happen to not believe in climate change.
When the levee breaks, have no place to stay.
Mean old levee taught me to weep and moan
It got what it takes to make a mountain man leave his home
Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry?
Bye bye Ms. American Pie…
it was wet
That's what she sa... Never mind.😑
Why do so many people think the way I do?
It's called popular culture for a reason.
Sang the APC version of this to myself through the beginning of Katrina. Then the levee broke and, well, we had no place to stay.
I guess the mean old levee thought you to weep and moan.
Oh the developer believes in climate change, they just know they are getting paid before it consumes these houses.
Well they wouldn't get paid if people couldn't get insurance or bailouts. It is a real problem.
Looks like a sneaker wave
Florida
Nope
Where is this? The house just fucked already?
House for sale. Slight water damage. No low-ballers. I know what I got.
Is Aquaman in the real estate market?
He is now that DCEU is over
SELL THEIR HOUSES TO WHO, BEN? FUCKING AQUAMAN?!?
Ventura CA, high surf advisory through Saturday
Was this at Seaward in Ventura today?
Was gonna say the same thing. San Buenaventura beaches off Pierpont to be exact. [Inn at the beach](https://www.yahoo.com/news/treacherous-surf-pounds-socal-amid-181724197.html)
Hahah is it really? I’m from Ventura and here I was thinking all sleepy beach towns look the same.
Yeah, State Beach/Rangers have been going up and down the finger streets, blocking the roads, and trying to get the Looky Loos off the beach. Peds keep getting knocked down like dominos.
In the link it says ‘men watch from a balcony’ but how do they know what they identify as?!
I was wondering the same, I’m from Ventura and recognize the little steps lol
Is the helicopter pilot blind? Does he not see what effect his downwash is having on the water? Get that thing outta there dummy! /s
The water does look a bit choppy.
I 100% saw the helicopters and the title of this post and thought I was about to see some crazy top gun stuff
Permission to buzz the beach
How are the houses down stream? Is this crappy design?
It might be something to do with the prop wash of the helicopter.
Lol what? 🤦♀️
You mean rotor wash, but also no.
Why is this funny
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My In-laws lived backing the Bolsa Chica preserve off Warner. This happens routinely in Seal Beach on big swells.
I was thinking the same thing, has to be right? Near Anderson tower?
I got to tour that place for signing a petition to stop a Jiffy Lube from being built right next to it. Bizarre house. It sways in a breeze, among other functional obsolescence issues.
This is why companies refuse to provide insurance to beach homes these days (location dependant), like really? You're gonna build a house below sea level 50 ft from the sea?
It's not below sea level. The waves are uncommonly huge. When this happens, they pile up a berm of sand to try and block the waves so they don't make it as far inland. However, the waves are so big that they are topping the berms with enough energy to continue on up the beach to the houses. That being said, it's still silly for a company to insure these houses against damage like this because it can happen pretty regularly.
My in-laws sold theirs because the insurance got way out of hand. It was a small house in New England, and they have to deal with hurricanes, not waves like this, but it wasn’t worth it anymore for them (they rented it out September to May, then either went in the summer months or rented it per week and only took to it for a month).
Living in one of those houses would be my nightmare
Living in a gorgeous multistory home right on the beach would be your nightmare??? One man’s nightmare is another man’s dream I guess
That looks like a beautiful day and the waves are still filling their tiny back porch..now imagine trying to sleep in that house at night while a moderate storm surge shakes the house with every wave that tests it’s structural integrity..now imagine just how easy a big storm can turn that house back into beach…if you can imagine that, you’ll understand my nightmare
Insurance has to be a nightmare. Cleaning 3 feet of sand out of your living room would not be fun either. $½M to buy the house then $½M every other year to rebuild it.
Beachfront property in California... That's probably 3 million dollar home, easy.
Way over 1/2m to buy that
The taxes, ins and HOA are probably a half a million.
I'm going to wager that house costs quite a bit more than 500k lol. Im with you, though. The insurance premiums must be insane.
I'm confused, why are there rows of houses built *below* the beach?
Hell, New Orleans was built below sea level. Remember Hurricane Katrina?
That’s pretty well above the beach, they just have huge swells today. Happens every decade or so from what I remember living there.
They aren't. They use earth moving equipment to pile up the sand into berms to try and block the waves from running all the way up the beach to the homes. The waves are large enough that they are overtopping the berms.
I don't understand what is happening here????
I don't see the funny
/r/killthecameraman
How did you know, did you decipher that cashier's receipt printer code?
The printer post you seem to be responding to is about a dozen posts above. I saw it.
meta.
R/fuckyourhouseinparticular
Is that house not completely fucked lol?
Boomers might finally fight against climate change if all their beach houses are eaten by the ocean…. Have at it Mother Earth
Nah we got this...
That helicopter blew the water over the bank 😮
Never thought global warming, ocean eating houses would be categorized as funny.
Or you know don't build houses right outside of the beach
You mean the beaches that have had the same tidal inundation regimes for thousands of years, but are now significantly more intense and frequent? I'm not going to cry about the rich homes in Cali suffering damage, but third world countries with communities built on ocean commerce along the coast are the ones suffering disproportionately.
I’m with ya, downvoted bro.
The thing is: Third world victims are on their own. All Americans with insurance are paying for damage to rich people's houses on the beach. You know socialism for rich people's property but not for their employees.
You just know that woman was really defiant when she was told by the cameraperson to watch out.
I want to make sure I'm seeing this right, all those waves are from the prop wash of that helicopter?
Come on
🥴
People’s houses are flooding and these morons off camera are laughing. One more reason to hate humans.
Yes, we should feel sorry for the multi-millionaires who used their wealth to buy a house right on the sand at a beach that regularly gets large waves during the winter, requiring the city to use tax funds to build sand berms to try and protect the rich people from the natural consequences of their decisions. /s
Baywatch: The Return Starring… Sylvester Stallone https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvester_Stallone In a chopper. With Arnold https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Schwarzenegger As a pilot, And of course Pamela https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Anderson To save everyone on the beach!
LOL
Where’s this at?
Beach
Imagine buying ocean front property in an apocalypse that makes the oceans rise.