As is with typical modern day geniuses, both apparently isn’t an option.
I’ve tried using sandbags for floods, they don’t do shit.
Duct tape could be useful as an improvised protection. It requires the door to be kept closed.
A waterproof panel right in front of the door would allow to keep using the door. Obviously it requires acquiring those ahead of time, possibly work on the door opening to ensure it fits perfectly.
Sandbags are typically used during flash floods and other imminent/unpredictable flooding.
The least you could do is spell it correctly, but that bone-apple-tea is disturbingly prevalent. 🤦🏼♂️
edit: Downvote all you want, fellow plebs. It’s your ass if you take that incorrect name at face value. Just try it on ducting and see if you don’t earn yourself massive repairs that require an actual professional to fix for you.
It’s “duck tape”, because it repells water like their feathers. It can neither withstand heat nor blowout pressure.
Gawdamn, this civ is fucked.
Are thinking of Duck tape? That’s a brand name dude!
But what kind of tape is this? Wide electrical?
Aka gaffer tape, cloth tape. Not an electrical tape, it’s a general purpose, fix nearly anything tape. Given the name, originally designed to quick fix ducts!
I don’t think gaffer tape would hold up to water. I think this is legit super sticky duct tape like for ducts, not just keeping electrical cords in place so people don’t trip on them.
Source: I gaffed for a couple summers
Fair point - I use those names for being near enough the same product (sticky cloth tape easily ripped by hand), but I get there are variations for use in more specific cases.
Sandbags wrapped in a tarp would probably do pretty well, then duct tape the seams. That gives you a heavy barrier and a waterproof membrane as well. Keeps it off your walls too, which may or may not let water leak through if there is a reasonable depth of water against them.
But it also depends on your house and the stuff around it. Where I live surface flooding would have to get past my front wall and there is just a narrow path through the brick wall. So sealing there would make the most sense.
At least until it reaches the height for sewers to back up and flow into my house. Then may as well burn it all down and abandon it.
