So I was looking at the layout of my house and trying to come up with a decent home defense plan, but I just realized a major flaw - I live on property that is immediately downstream of a major levee system that holds the local reservoir. If a home invasion attacker decided to hit and breach the dam before attacking my house, I'd be pinned in my house in at least fifteen feet of water, if my house doesn't get washed away in the dam failure. Is there any sort of mitigation strategy to this? Staging a sandbag barrier ahead of time, or building some sort of personal home levee? Is there any way to volunteer to help keep the local dam secure from potential robbers/home invaders?
>>33786336
just use a wet vac dude
>>33786363
...I doubt a wet vac can drain out floodwater? If you're thinking I should get a pump, I have a small sump pump but I don't know if that would keep up with a dam failure's floodwater.
>>33786336
Breach the dam preemptively. If properly damaged, you could be safe for a couple years until repairs are complete.
>>33787109
I am pretty sure that's extremely illegal. Also I don't want my house to get flooded.
>>33786363
fpbp
>>33786336
>If a home invasion attacker decided to hit and breach the dam before attacking my house
never change, /k/
>>33786336
have your house elevated, it's what i did. also makes your house harder to assail, they'll need scaling ladders if you control your stairwells
>>33786336
Fuck me replying ti this bait.
Unless the home invader is fucking general rommel hes not going to breach a million dollar dam to rob youre shitty house.
>>33787923
Couldnt they then just blow or cut the supports to bring the whole house down? How do you reinforce against that?
>>33792702
my house is elevated with reinforced cinder block pylons with solid break away walls. they would need to place demo charges at multiple locations in view of cameras, probably under fire. you're going to have a hard time with a group capable of that in the vast majority of structures. at that point you may want to think about a bunker with extensive perimeter fencing, however your original flooding fear would come back into play.