First question: Where’d he get the dirt?
Second question: How many people told him he was nuts to build the berm? (Oh yeah bitches, whose the crazy nutjob survivalist now!)
You know that guy is sitting on his porch, and that beer tastes soooooo good right now.
Well that, and can you say 270 degree firearms training range?
He got the dirt from his own yard. It came out of the “moat” that is inside than wall.
Sorry … wrong flood picture.
I have no clue where this person got the fill dirt for his berm.
This probably gave him a discount on his flood insurance. I know you get a discount if you have an “elevation certificate”, which I assume requires you to have living areas and stuff like heatpumps up off the ground. I’ve seen whole houses built on an Atlantic island where the entire living area is lifted 12′ in the air on pylons. The only thing to touch ground level is a staircase that should be easy to replace if flooded out and rendered useless.
Also, there’s no plants on the berm, so we have to assume that he just built the thing, or just reinforced the berm recently.
I know there were areas where they decided to flood lower populated areas in order to save higher populated areas, so I would have to guess that he burnt a bit of midnight oil to finish this up.
I wonder about the dark area. It seems like a tarp, but I’m not sure why it’s only in the one area. That may have been where they put all the sandbags because they couldn’t get the heavy equipment in there to build the berm due to overhead power lines.
I’m guessing sandbags are right — that was probably the pre-flood entrance and he had to fill it with sandbags as the water rose.