Hundreds of thousands of people are forced to leave their houses every year due to floods. In many cases, even if people receive the warning signs long before the disaster strikes and manage to erect flood defense like sandbagging dikes in advance, the consequence of floods may still appear devastating.
Every year, millions of people struggle with various flood defense measures, from the good old ones to innovative solutions. They spend their time, money, effort and energy, and still seem to be defenseless in the face of the disaster.
Does it mean that no flood defense method can guarantee our safety?
Let`s go over the most popular and available solutions and try to understand why they fail, how we can avoid them, and save our lives and properties.
What came first, the flood or the sandbagging dike?
Unfortunately, floods are inevitable. They will keep on happening in the future even more often than they did in the past. The only possible way to eliminate the danger of floods from your life is to keep off rivers, oceans, and all other water bodies.
However, the history of mankind clearly demonstrates that it is simply impossible. Indeed, living in the lowlands has always had its tangible perks.
The benefits of more fruitful soil, accessible transportation, natural resources, and, after all, the most popular recreational areas have always overweight the risks of losing it all to floods at some point.
That is why sandbagging dikes might have been among the first defensive constructions mastered by mankind. Those sandbagging dikes have evolved into water walls, river, or tidal barriers, ut the idea remained the same - to keep raging water away from our properties.
Those solutions are indeed pretty efficient, but unfortunately, they are designed to save us from regular flooding. Once it comes to a water rise for more than a couple of feet or a flash flood that does not leave you too much time to react, most available flood defenses appear useless.
Those floods happen at least once in 100 years. And due to climate change and global warming, there is a big chance that they will happen much more often in the future. So, is there an efficient way to protect your household or business from flooding?
Costs and benefits of flood defense
The main reason why so many people suffer from devastating consequences of flooding is miscalculation between costs and benefits of flood defense they use.
Sandbagging is considered to be the cheapest solution. Indeed, the bags themselves will cost you a couple of bucks each, and the sand is literally free. In the areas which are most prone to flooding, local governments spare a significant share of the budget for flood defense and provide the local community with sandbagging for free (aka their tax money).
At the same time, solutions like the modern flood gates may cost up to several hundred and seem an inaccessible luxury for most people.
However, there are several factors that most of us don`t consider calculation the actual cost of our flood defense:
- Sandbagging is a one-time solution, while flood gates can be used multiple times throughout many years;
- Sandbagging requires more time to be installed, while flood gates are ready to use and protect your property in a matter of several minutes;
- Sandbagging dikes consist of multiple parts (sandbags), which by the laws of physics make it more vulnerable to breach and leak than a monologue one-part construction like a flood gate;
- The higher you want your sandbagging dike to be, the more effort you will have to put. And still, there is no guarantee that the flood water won`t overflow your construction. A flood gate instantly provides advanced 3-feet protection from water in a matter of several simple actions.
In other words, in many cases, your flood defense method fails because it is simply a wrong flood defense for you.
If you live in an area where floods indeed happen once in 100 years, you can indeed effort the thrill of building a sandbagging dike like our forefathers did. And in case of failure, there won`t be any problem collecting the insurance money as flood insurance won`t be that costly and problematic for you.
But if you live at a place where floods are an annual routine, calculating your risks and benefits from flood defense is the only key to success. You cannot afford the luxury of relying on good old methods. Providence and reputation of your insurance company. It is time to think of advanced protection that will let you sleep tight through stormy nights.
There are always risks.
Another thing people often fail to consider and find themselves in the middle of a flooded house because the risk of flooding always exists.
If you live in an area where floods have never really happened, global warming and climate change, as well as heavy rainfall, will make sure that one day the peaceful creek at your local forest will turn into a raging water stream.
If you have shoes sandbagging, or a flood gate to protect your house, you must follow the instructions thoroughly and install or establish your dikes strictly according to the rules. Unfortunately, most of those tips and instructions have been written with tons of dirty infectious flood water that took millions of lives and caused billions of damage.
Contact Dam Easy today and learn how to protect your property even from a severe flash flood most efficiently. Our expert will be happy to answer all your questions and provide a thorough consultation so you can make your informed decision about a modern and efficient alternative to outdated sandbagging.
The feedback from our customers worldwide proves that where all flood defense fails, the Flood Gates stand firmly, giving your peace of mind and protecting your property.
Flood Barrier Door Dam - Ultimate Flood Gate
$899.99
DAM EASY® FLOOD GATE - DOOR DAM Floods are becoming more common around the world. What was once a 100-year phenomenon is now a seasonal trend that homeowners must deal with. That’s EXACTLY why you need this Dam Easy Flood… Read More
