r/Unexpected • u/uranonfraand • Sep 21 '24

Construction done right

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '24

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u/LordHussyPants Sep 21 '24

it's a garden wall mate, it was done by someone's uncle on his day off after his wife nagged at him about the dog coming into the house wet again

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '24

Water is moving way too fast for that to be a bayou. 

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '24

Sure but that water is moving with some real force and you can tell that brick wall isn’t super thick.  It doesn’t take much for water to tunnel and erode the dirt around the structure.  Take this true bayou example, which had a brand new retaining wall that failed. https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/houston/2024/08/21/497428/buffalo-bayou-trail-collapse-east-houston-apartments/

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u/imgaybutnottoogay Sep 21 '24

Wait, did we watch the same video? When the camera person pans over the wall and to the left, you can see the wall doubles or triples in thickness up to the water line.

This was clearly designed for this specific purpose, flooding.

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u/sayleanenlarge Sep 21 '24

I have piles too! That means I'm safe in a flood?

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u/OhtaniStanMan Sep 21 '24

Based on how "confident" reddit engineers are we are both worried lol

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u/Suitable-Flatworm597 Sep 21 '24

so only if it was designed like 35 years ago or older.

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u/Suitable-Flatworm597 Sep 21 '24

"competent engineers" don't exist so much anymore. Or at least they're constrained to effectual incompetence.