Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/10/23/watch-a-room-get-filled-with-water-until-it-collapses-into-the-room-below.html
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That was quite a remarkable finale. Amazing how the water came out of literally every window at the end.
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For more videos like this, look up “Nicht Nachmachen” with Bernhard Hoëcker and Wigald Boning.
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Was that house being demolished anyway? What about all of the stuff inside?
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Reminds me of a scene in the movie Delicatessen in which
the two protagonists find themselves cornered in a locked bathroom with murderous apartment dwellers trying to get in at them. Filling the room with water to flood the place out is their creative means of escape.
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I’m watching this while I’m having a new roof put on; strangely distressing seeing the destruction while hearing bangety-bang roofing noises.
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I’m irrationally infuriated that they aimed the hose like a foot outside of the bathtub. Seems like such a missed opportunity.
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First world problems. I kind of liked that rug. It really held the room together until it was micturate upon by upstairs.
EDIT: spelling
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Worst Airbnb ever
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Did they seal up that story to hold in the water while it filled? Houses aren’t water-tight on the inside like that, especially old houses like that one.
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I’m not cleaning that up.
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Given that it was a fire hose filling it, I don’t think they needed to do much but block the door and close the windows.
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Yeah, it was leaking through the floor and the ceiling of the room below. I’m surprised that the attic window didn’t break from the pressure of the water against it.
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I remember wishing this show had English subtitles when these clips were first doing the rounds a few years ago. They have a lot of good ones, like showing the spread of fire from a cooking pan doused with water.
An excellent metaphor for the year 2020!
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If you look, you can see they caulked the doors (possibly reinforced?).
I’m actually surprised it didn’t develop a leak that matched the incoming volume of water (say, through outlets and such). The catastrophic end after the initial break was surprising to me.
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Fortunately most homes don’t have access to that volume of water flow. Even a 1" supply line (large for a single family home, unlikely to a single room) wouldn’t be able to supply enough water to keep up with leakage.
I do know a couple who bought a foreclosure house where the previous owner had stopped all the drains, turned on all the water, and opened the windows during a Minnesota January. Suffice to say the house came cheap and they gutted and remodeled the whole thing. They knew exactly what they were getting into though so they got a great deal.
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Actually, I found that extremely helpful, since I’m writing a fabulist story about a house that gets swept out to sea and becomes a ship, and I needed to know if tubs float as he’s picking up passengers along the way.
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Interesting, but not sure I would call this “science” or even an “experiment” without knowing what the hypothesis was and what data they gathered to prove or disprove it. More along the lines of a realistic portrayal of the disastrous effects of overloading a structure with water weight.
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