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The events of hurricane Sandy made me think that it would be useful to have a heavy duty plastic bag I could wrap my car in.
It would be double-sealed such that little or no water could leak in. In the event of a major flood event, you just drive your car onto the bag and seal it up. Your car stays
nice and dry until the waters recede.
Such a bag could be probably be sold for about $100.00, which is obviously much cheaper than replacing the entire vehicle.
Injury reported with prototype testing
http://www.google.c...,i:170&tx=115&ty=86
[normzone, Oct 31 2012]
This would probably work.
http://undergroundb...ortableshelters.htm
Enourmous freezer bag for storing paranoid people. [DIYMatt, Oct 31 2012]
[link]
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A vehicle will float in as little as seven inches of
water (depth on the frame/body, not the tires). It
will wash away in as little as two inches of flowing
water (total). |
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So your car might stay dry, but unless it was parked
in a garage or similarly restricted, it might go visiting
Lord Buchanan. |
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The bag vacuum-seals after you exit, and the bottom is
lined with ten tons of shot. |
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Floating and dry is still better than floating and wet (or sunk). |
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Well, the $100 is short of the mark, but it's a great idea. Drive into it and inflate / seal it, one time use. Tether it to something not too scary. |
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How about one of your ideas? They never go
anywhere … |
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//sold cheaply, printed on rice paper,//
Haven't had food in days... so hungry! but I can't eat this insurance policy because I'll lose my claim... |
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It shouldn't be too much more expensive to tether the bag
by cable to a concrete-embedded anchor. [+] |
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This is a great idea. As far as the floating issue, just
chain it so something. |
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If the car and whatever it was chained to floats
away,
move to California.* |
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*(Please don't move to California.) |
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I second that - it's difficult enough already to find a parking place to unroll my Bag-loon in. And I have seen evidence of injuries in prototype testing (link). |
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See my link. If you had one of those with a reenforced floor you could pop it up, drive your car in, and seal up the door. It's been voted "product most likely to cause death by suffocation" ten years in a row! |
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+ OK, now how about one for the house? |
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