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Anonymous Coward User ID: 19581473 United States 05/05/2018 10:54 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I got to thinking, if an EMP or any long term grid down scenario occurs basements will be worthless if you can't pump the water out. Think about how much your pump runs in a heavy spring or summer rain. How do you overcome that? A hand barrel / drum pump?? I think this is something many overlook. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76519973 Uhhhhhhhhhh . . . the majority of homes do not get flooding in their basements. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 76519973 United States 05/05/2018 10:58 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I got to thinking, if an EMP or any long term grid down scenario occurs basements will be worthless if you can't pump the water out. Think about how much your pump runs in a heavy spring or summer rain. How do you overcome that? A hand barrel / drum pump?? I think this is something many overlook. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76519973 Uhhhhhhhhhh . . . the majority of homes do not get flooding in their basements. That's because they have sump pumps retard. If the pumps don't run they flood. The only way is if you live on a hill. FFS you're retarded. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 15834487 United States 05/05/2018 11:03 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I got to thinking, if an EMP or any long term grid down scenario occurs basements will be worthless if you can't pump the water out. Think about how much your pump runs in a heavy spring or summer rain. How do you overcome that? A hand barrel / drum pump?? I think this is something many overlook. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76519973 Uhhhhhhhhhh . . . the majority of homes do not get flooding in their basements. That's because they have sump pumps retard. If the pumps don't run they flood. The only way is if you live on a hill. FFS you're retarded. LOL most newer homes (as in 30 years or newer) have walk-out basements and are built on the side of an incline. Their basements are dry even in heavy rains. I only ever had one house that had a sump pump that ran. the other 8 - nope. Plus a lot of them don't even have basements, but are on slabs or crawl spaces. Where do you live that you have such a wet basement? Only the old houses with standard basements seem to have wet basement issues anymore. |
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User ID: 75219378 United States 05/05/2018 11:05 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I got to thinking, if an EMP or any long term grid down scenario occurs basements will be worthless if you can't pump the water out. Think about how much your pump runs in a heavy spring or summer rain. How do you overcome that? A hand barrel / drum pump?? I think this is something many overlook. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76519973 Uhhhhhhhhhh . . . the majority of homes do not get flooding in their basements. That's because they have sump pumps retard. If the pumps don't run they flood. The only way is if you live on a hill. FFS you're retarded. OP, you seem rather negative. Be creative and flip the situation around. Find the benefits. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 73687368 United States 05/05/2018 11:21 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | NO SUMP PUMP in the house ... and never needed one. Always dry as could be for the 25 years I lived in it. |
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Forum Administrator 05/05/2018 11:29 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Depends on your basemnt. My house sits on one of the highest points around, my basement has never flooded. Have some neighbors who are not so lucky. Maybe preppers should not buy homes at the bottom of a hill? Fate whispers to the warrior "You cannot withstand the storm" the warrior whispers back "I am the storm" INTJ-A |
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User ID: 56638406 United States 05/05/2018 11:32 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | simple solution.. buy a home in fl cause there are no basements. Falling down is a part of life, getting back up is living. ~ Life is about choices, you get to make them each and every day of your life. ~ Capitalization is the difference between helping your Uncle Jack off a horse and helping your uncle jack off a horse.~ Only in America... do we use the word 'politics' to describe the process so well: 'Poloi' in Greek meaning 'many' and 'tics' meaning 'bloodsucking creatures'.~ “When a government is dependent for money upon the bankers, they and not the government leaders control the nation. This is because the hand that gives is above the hand that takes. Financiers are without patriotism and without decency.” If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain. Winston Churchill |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 76544545 United States 05/05/2018 11:50 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I got to thinking, if an EMP or any long term grid down scenario occurs basements will be worthless if you can't pump the water out. Think about how much your pump runs in a heavy spring or summer rain. How do you overcome that? A hand barrel / drum pump?? I think this is something many overlook. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76519973 We store anything that can be ruined in 55 gallon drums that have lid lock and gasket seal. we buy them at the farm store for $23 each.. They can also be used later as hidden cache for supplies around the property if needed.. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 75819823 United States 05/05/2018 12:12 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I got to thinking, if an EMP or any long term grid down scenario occurs basements will be worthless if you can't pump the water out. Think about how much your pump runs in a heavy spring or summer rain. How do you overcome that? A hand barrel / drum pump?? I think this is something many overlook. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76519973 Uhhhhhhhhhh . . . the majority of homes do not get flooding in their basements. That's because they have sump pumps retard. If the pumps don't run they flood. The only way is if you live on a hill. FFS you're retarded. If you build on a slope and incorporate a french drain, you don't need a sump pump. If you need a sump pump, then your house was poorly designed. |
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User ID: 70736097 United States 05/05/2018 12:25 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | And what about those things called generators and a fuel cache? Damn, OP, you're a goner if shtf, you can't think past your first impulse. "Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don't need it and hell, where they already have it." Ronald Reagan The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so." Ronald Reagan |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 76492056 Germany 05/05/2018 12:27 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I got to thinking, if an EMP or any long term grid down scenario occurs basements will be worthless if you can't pump the water out. Think about how much your pump runs in a heavy spring or summer rain. How do you overcome that? A hand barrel / drum pump?? I think this is something many overlook. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76519973 Uhhhhhhhhhh . . . the majority of homes do not get flooding in their basements. That's because they have sump pumps retard. If the pumps don't run they flood. The only way is if you live on a hill. FFS you're retarded. No. Many homes don't have basements. |
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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 76519973 United States 05/05/2018 12:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | OP you dumb fuck, most homes with basements don't have sump pumps. Most homes where built on good land that doesn't flood. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76525887 I worked in the industry and installed and repaired hundreds of drainage systems. You are ignorant on the subject. New construction, old construction, even SLABS. It didn't matter. If the hydrostatic pressure was great enough the water would fill the fucking ductwork in slabs. Fucktards, the lot of you. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 75580120 United States 05/05/2018 01:37 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I got to thinking, if an EMP or any long term grid down scenario occurs basements will be worthless if you can't pump the water out. Think about how much your pump runs in a heavy spring or summer rain. How do you overcome that? A hand barrel / drum pump?? I think this is something many overlook. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76519973 Uhhhhhhhhhh . . . the majority of homes do not get flooding in their basements. That's because they have sump pumps retard. If the pumps don't run they flood. The only way is if you live on a hill. FFS you're retarded. True. When it pours the sump runs a lot. My answer for outages, which can occur when storms come thru, is a generator but eventually I would run out of fuel if the outages were long-term. I guess I could put in a battery operated smaller secondary pump and just run a genny part time to charge the batteries |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 76525420 United Kingdom 05/05/2018 01:52 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I got to thinking, if an EMP or any long term grid down scenario occurs basements will be worthless if you can't pump the water out. Think about how much your pump runs in a heavy spring or summer rain. How do you overcome that? A hand barrel / drum pump?? I think this is something many overlook. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76519973 If you are stupid enough to build your house on a flood plain with a basement that is below the water table. Any decent prepper will have already figured this problem out, and probably not bought a place that is vulnerable. But in the end, we all hev to die of something. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 76547610 United States 05/05/2018 01:53 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | OP you dumb fuck, most homes with basements don't have sump pumps. Most homes where built on good land that doesn't flood. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76525887 I worked in the industry and installed and repaired hundreds of drainage systems. You are ignorant on the subject. New construction, old construction, even SLABS. It didn't matter. If the hydrostatic pressure was great enough the water would fill the fucking ductwork in slabs. Fucktards, the lot of you. Many years of professional drain tile and water abatement system installation here.. I've seen homes on a hill get water... It happens.. also, op is right.. static water has great pressure and will get into everything. And to the comment about most homes where built on "good land" that doesn't flood!!... Dunno wtf that's about because most homes were built by rivers or other bodies of water... So... That indicates wet and muddy conditions.. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 75580120 United States 05/05/2018 01:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I got to thinking, if an EMP or any long term grid down scenario occurs basements will be worthless if you can't pump the water out. Think about how much your pump runs in a heavy spring or summer rain. How do you overcome that? A hand barrel / drum pump?? I think this is something many overlook. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76519973 Uhhhhhhhhhh . . . the majority of homes do not get flooding in their basements. That's because they have sump pumps retard. If the pumps don't run they flood. The only way is if you live on a hill. FFS you're retarded. True. When it pours the sump runs a lot. My answer for outages, which can occur when storms come thru, is a generator but eventually I would run out of fuel if the outages were long-term. I guess I could put in a battery operated smaller secondary pump and just run a genny part time to charge the batteries Of course the best thing to do would be put a generac system in that runs on natural gas. Sweet system kicks on automatically with any power outages and once a month to check systems and charge batteries |