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Nutriaitch said:
it creates wave action that isn't there.
the wave action from the boat's wake pushes even more water than is already there.
which both raises the water level and moves things around that float.

depending on the speed of the boat, those wakes can sometimes have waves over a foot tall.
so anything less than 12" above the current flood line that was dry and salvageable is now being flooded.

and debris that was just lazily drifting along the surface is now being forcibly propelled in the direction of the wake is traveling and will bang against anything in the way.

so hypothetically:
your house (and maybe a car) was spared the actual flood by 4" or so. You got lucky.
then some asshole comes roaring through the street in an airboat.
that wave he's pushing flows right into your home that WAS spared by the flood.
and your car that was lucky now both has water in it and a 4x4 with part of somebody's awning attached also slams and scrapes along the side of you car at the peak of every wave.

most of your flooring now needs to be ripped well past what got flooded (so entire subfloor can dry out before replacing the flooring)
sheet rock walls need be changed to a height at least several inches or a foot above the water line (water travels up the insulation inside your walls, so all that needs to be replaced too). Anything electrical, outlets, etc., will also now need to be replaced because those don't handle salty water very well.
Your central AC unit that only had water in the drip pan now just had the motor and compressor go under salt water, so that will need replacing.
your car that only need a good spraying down with fresh water now needs all of the interior carpeting replaced, and wiring or connections that got wet need to be replaced. Oh and you now need body work and a paint job.

You just went from thanking your lucky stars for being spared to now having tens of thousands of dollars worth of damage and extended the amount of time your home is not livable, and your car is also fucked up.
all because of a thoughtless prick that didn't need to be running around in an airboat.


Would be a different story if water was 10' deep everywhere and you were rescuing people from drowning.
A. you're saving lives and not just "patrolling" a neighborhood.
B. water that deep has already fucked up everything and you're not really adding to the damages in that situation.
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Thanks for the info. As a northern Ohio guy, I have very limited post flood experience.
I don’t want to sound like a jerk with this question, but, assuming this is mostly storm surge, wouldn’t this patrol be happening after the water was receding? So yeah, wouldn’t “B” be the most likely scenario here?
 
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charlohiottean said:
I don’t want to sound like a jerk with this question, but, assuming this is mostly storm surge, wouldn’t this patrol be happening after the water was receding? So yeah, wouldn’t “B” be the most likely scenario here?
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I don't know how that part of Florida typically handles these things so this will be based off what the video shows and my experiences in South Louisiana.

This video shows people just casually walking in the street in water less than knee deep. At one point in the video you can even see trucks in background and can clearly see daylight between the water and bottom of the vehicle. And when the boats got to the people, they even slowed down so as not to spray them. And they don't speed back up immediately after passing the people. So they weren't necessarily in a hurry.
So this doesn't look like a rescue mission. This looks like a typical post storm patrol. (also, those boats aren't painted and clearly marked like all of our police boats are, so this may not even be the police).

Meaning they aren't responding to any emergency calls, they are patrolling the area.
Surveying damages, checking for potential dangers in area (power lines in water) arrest looters, or lend a hand to people that may need help, but aren't in emergency situation. Very common after a storm. Both by car on dry lands and boats/tall trucks in floods.

In my hometown, they ride around in the 2-1/2 ton trucks at very low speeds when in the water to minimize the wake as much as possible.
Same could also be done in those boats.
 
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Nutriaitch said:
(also, those boats aren't painted and clearly marked like all of our police boats are, so this may not even be the police).
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this is the paint scheme for all our our Sheriff's office boats
this only one of their boats, but they're all painted the same.
You can see the deuce-and-a-half trucks in background as well.

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AKAK said:
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Mandrake, do you know when the vitamin C enrichment of Orange flavored beverages began?
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I used to enjoy a good conspiracy theory. Than a few people started taking them too seriously and doing things like loading up their vehicle with weapons and driving to Washington DC, a political rally, or a pizza shop because "someone had to do something." Has kind of taken the fun out of it for me.
 
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CincyInterloper said:
I used to enjoy a good conspiracy theory. Than a few people started taking them too seriously and doing things like loading up their vehicle with weapons and driving to Washington DC, a political rally, or a pizza shop because "someone had to do something." Has kind of taken the fun out of it for me.
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I mean the guy in the picture started a nuclear war...
 
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want to send shivers down the spine of a coonass from Southeast Louisiana?
mention the date "August 29th"

today is the anniversary of 4 different storms in the last 20 years that all made landfall in really close to same area.
(red star marks rough location of my house back home)

Katrina - 2005

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Gustav - 2008

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Isaac - 2012

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Ida - 2021

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Katrina obviously gets all the headlines due to sheer size of the are she fucked up. 20 years later, she's still the benchmark for worst storm I ever personally witnessed.

Gustav and Isaac were both smaller and weaker storms. Gustav was a Cat 2 and Isaac was a Cat 1. Gustav did some moderate damage to my hometown, but effects were extremely local and not very widespread.
Isaac was a weird ass storm. Not really potent and not a ton of damage. Due to its kinda doing a circling action, it's the only storm to this day that I have been in all 4 quadrants and the eye.

Ida - HO. LEE. SHIT.
tied for the strongest (windspeed) storm to ever hit Louisiana.
thank god I evacuated for this one.

Wiped the western end of Grand Isle off the map.
in my local area:
my grandparents' house - total loss
best friend's parents' house - total loss
my parents's house - around $20k in damages
my house - about $60k in damages
house across street from me - about 1/2 of it has never been found
2 area high schools - destroyed
3 local middle or elementary schools - total losses
complete decimation in spots unlike anything I've ever seen

went right at a month without running water
3 weeks without electricity

and more indirectly, but the aftermath of Ida ultimately led to me doing something I never thought I would do - leave South Louisiana (and I moved to a god damn desert).
 
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