We got hit with a really bad hailstorm that formed right over our house several years ago, rather than hail hitting from primarily one side it hit us on all sides turning all our siding and windows into Swiss cheese. The insurance guy reviewed my mom’s footage and said they would’ve denied half our claim if it weren’t for the video because our damage was different than the neighbors. So yeah, always have someone recording!!!!
Oh yeah real smart suggestion Karen - that way the homeowner’s insurance company can claim that there’s not enough evidence to conclude that this was an accident and that the family might have broken the windows themselves when the insurance does the investigation so then they can refuse to pay for damages. Yeah good call - let’s forget about getting good video evidence so that way we can make sure we maximize our chances of possibly having to pay for all the damages ourselves as well!
Your comment is powerful and human, reminding us of the importance of taking immediate action when needed. It is a call that cannot be ignored. Have you ever wondered why in stressful situations, some people choose to record themselves instead of immediately stepping in to help?
Replace the vinyl window with an aluminum tilt and turn window. We have a house in California where the outside of the basement got filled with water and those European tilt and turn windows didn’t even leak one droplet. It’s amazing!
(Americans hearing European made item be used to handle natural disasters) how dare you cave to them! You American so handle it like an should handle it. Sandbags up the wall like we do it in in the east and a good ol hunting gun to scare it away from your property. Random context: forgot which state but owner hired a Swedish(?) Architect to build a home that’s frequent with hurricanes. When the hurricane came the neighborhood houses were damaged but that house built by the architect barely got any damage. The key? The house shaped looked more ovalish. Do to that the strong winds pretty much didn’t tackle the home but in a way dance around it. General response to it “shockingly” was harsh with ppl jealous of the owner house or excuses of irs not American looking so it shouldn’t exist in the area. Face it homes in america do need fo be updated to how Europe, Asia, hell Japan especially on how they handle natural disasters. But won’t happen cause either hardcore Americans dislike that ir doesn’t look American or companies won’t accept it since that will make them lose money if ppl don’t repair much.
@@dungeonmaster16 also Europe and Asia don’t have tornadoes and hurricanes like the US. It’s more affordable for any person in the Tornado Alley to just build with wood and let it get ripped to the ground since most people also have a tornado shelter, you’re also more likely to crash in a commercial airplane than get a tornado near you that rips your house apart, about 1 in a million chances you get hit by a tornado.
Should have put a proper storm window down there. Just because you’re in an area not normally prone to flooding doesn’t mean you don’t need proper storm windows in your basement.
Point of a window is not to keep out a pool of water. The house should not have been designed to allow such a massive pool to form in the first place. It could be a drainage issue, but in my opinion, it was a house design issue. Even if a drainage gets clogged, houses should not be designed so that you effectively have a pool right outside your window. Terrible architectural design. Terrible engineering. Terribly built.
That's the scenario in our house in the Philippines everytime there's a typhoon, high tide and strong winds all at the same time. For the longest time we don't buy furnitures and appliances as it will only destroy. Glad no one hurt in your family.
This is literally everyone’s worst nightmare. I hate hearing news reports about these I really do cause these things can be so traumatic to families and it makes one’s heart sink immediately. I try to see the humour and funny side of it though, love what the home owner says at the end of this between 1:20 - 1:25 Niagara Falls bless her. 🌊😂
There’s a product called shockwave that they can buy that kills mold. I’ve seen it used after flooding from natural disasters and it works really well.
What caught my eye was the saint there on the other side of the desk. I do feel bad to see this , now on days is not as easy replacing all your electronics and stuff, yes material is replaceable, life is not , but still it will hurt then financially. I al glad everyone is okay. God bless this family . May God multiply what Mother Nature took in blessings🙏🏻✨God works in amazing ways!!✨🥰
it was a pretty bad storm! there were leaves flying everywhere, couldn't see the mountains at all, biggest pieces of hail i've ever seen! we had at least a few inches of water on our front porch
I'm very concerned that this might happen to my grandparents house. I live in Arizona and there was heavy torrential rain a couple weeks ago for 30 minutes due to monsoon. Water droplets were dripping from the gashes in the airvent after it. I thought it was a leak but it dried up on it's own. Pretty scary
what an engaging and well-produced video! it's crazy to see how quickly the flooding escalated. however, i can't help but wonder if some property owners don't take warnings seriously enough. maybe this could've been prevented with better preparation?
😐 This why my mom picked me up and tossed me into the swimming pool after I said "I don't wanna learn how to swim". She said "You'll thank me for this later" while I was paddling furiously while swallowing chlorine water.
Window/ egress well needs to be expended above the ground and caped with a plastic dome. Grade/ swale channel. May need a in-ground weeping system tied to the window well or at least a dry well.
I feel sorry for that family, and hope they have some good home insurance. I didn't know rain even got that bad in Utah seeing how part of that state is a desert. It's a good thing they don't live in Houston, Miami or New Orleans just to name a few other places where excessive rain and flooding gets even worse than that.
If that bad been me & that window broke in my house, I’d have just tossed whatever I was holding over my shoulder, grabbed my purse & car keys & left for a hotel. I’d be like Tom Hanks in The Money Pit when the bathtub upstairs falls through the floor.
She put her kid's life in danger for the dollars of a neighbor!? Yeah, save the photos cause no one backs things up, but that takes 2 minutes if everyone has everything visible!!!! 15k, or someone's life is gone!!! POWER AND WATER KILLS!!!! and she recorded!!!???
“I..did not expect.. Niagara Falls”😂😂😂😂
That got me 😂
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What’s funny 😐
Omg that millions of dollars ouch
"Stop recording and HELP ME!!! We could use another hand!"
And the window would have been so happy it wouldn’t have broken right
you have to record nowadays for insurance purposes, but yes, make a pick-me comment.
We got hit with a really bad hailstorm that formed right over our house several years ago, rather than hail hitting from primarily one side it hit us on all sides turning all our siding and windows into Swiss cheese. The insurance guy reviewed my mom’s footage and said they would’ve denied half our claim if it weren’t for the video because our damage was different than the neighbors. So yeah, always have someone recording!!!!
Oh yeah real smart suggestion Karen - that way the homeowner’s insurance company can claim that there’s not enough evidence to conclude that this was an accident and that the family might have broken the windows themselves when the insurance does the investigation so then they can refuse to pay for damages.
Yeah good call - let’s forget about getting good video evidence so that way we can make sure we maximize our chances of possibly having to pay for all the damages ourselves as well!
Your comment is powerful and human, reminding us of the importance of taking immediate action when needed. It is a call that cannot be ignored. Have you ever wondered why in stressful situations, some people choose to record themselves instead of immediately stepping in to help?
Replace the vinyl window with an aluminum tilt and turn window. We have a house in California where the outside of the basement got filled with water and those European tilt and turn windows didn’t even leak one droplet. It’s amazing!
thanks
@@Plutogalaxy isnt that a basement window? the ground can only absorb so much water
@@Plutogalaxy Or paint it yellow, then live in a yellow submarine. A yellow submarine. A yellow submarine.
(Americans hearing European made item be used to handle natural disasters) how dare you cave to them! You American so handle it like an should handle it. Sandbags up the wall like we do it in in the east and a good ol hunting gun to scare it away from your property.
Random context: forgot which state but owner hired a Swedish(?) Architect to build a home that’s frequent with hurricanes. When the hurricane came the neighborhood houses were damaged but that house built by the architect barely got any damage. The key? The house shaped looked more ovalish. Do to that the strong winds pretty much didn’t tackle the home but in a way dance around it. General response to it “shockingly” was harsh with ppl jealous of the owner house or excuses of irs not American looking so it shouldn’t exist in the area.
Face it homes in america do need fo be updated to how Europe, Asia, hell Japan especially on how they handle natural disasters. But won’t happen cause either hardcore Americans dislike that ir doesn’t look American or companies won’t accept it since that will make them lose money if ppl don’t repair much.
@@dungeonmaster16 also Europe and Asia don’t have tornadoes and hurricanes like the US. It’s more affordable for any person in the Tornado Alley to just build with wood and let it get ripped to the ground since most people also have a tornado shelter, you’re also more likely to crash in a commercial airplane than get a tornado near you that rips your house apart, about 1 in a million chances you get hit by a tornado.
Who designed their house so that water is able to build up in front of a basement window?
Every basement windows, the same
I've lived in this city my whole life and it was described as a "once in more than a century" storm. Just too much water, too fast.
Should have put a proper storm window down there. Just because you’re in an area not normally prone to flooding doesn’t mean you don’t need proper storm windows in your basement.
Point of a window is not to keep out a pool of water. The house should not have been designed to allow such a massive pool to form in the first place. It could be a drainage issue, but in my opinion, it was a house design issue. Even if a drainage gets clogged, houses should not be designed so that you effectively have a pool right outside your window. Terrible architectural design. Terrible engineering. Terribly built.
They need to dig DITCHES. Build a ditch, and then another one, and then another one, and then another one...
Dry areas famously flood really fast with the smallest amount of rain but you know
Good thing you got all the electronic devices out of the way.
That's the scenario in our house in the Philippines everytime there's a typhoon, high tide and strong winds all at the same time. For the longest time we don't buy furnitures and appliances as it will only destroy. Glad no one hurt in your family.
My guy really was worried about the keyboard stand instead of the *ELECTRONIC* headphones on the desk next to the window.
Almost like panic results in poor decisions
Basement filled with water? That's gotta be the work of the Wet Bandits
Only the real ones would get that reference
Water: I CAME IN LIKE A WRECKING BALL
Glad everybody was safe and nobody got hurt
So sad…god bless them❤️
It’s the scream that got me 💀😂😂
I laughed so damn hard 🤣
Reminds of how titanic cabin window water gushing in 😅
everyone: why there's a pool here
parents: son you forgot to close the window
This is literally everyone’s worst nightmare. I hate hearing news reports about these I really do cause these things can be so traumatic to families and it makes one’s heart sink immediately. I try to see the humour and funny side of it though, love what the home owner says at the end of this between 1:20 - 1:25 Niagara Falls bless her. 🌊😂
15k. More then that. Wait til the mold starts that you can never get rid of. That house is done
There’s a product called shockwave that they can buy that kills mold. I’ve seen it used after flooding from natural disasters and it works really well.
That house ain’t built right
What caught my eye was the saint there on the other side of the desk. I do feel bad to see this , now on days is not as easy replacing all your electronics and stuff, yes material is replaceable, life is not , but still it will hurt then financially. I al glad everyone is okay. God bless this family . May God multiply what Mother Nature took in blessings🙏🏻✨God works in amazing ways!!✨🥰
Aside from the damage and hassle…. That was pretty darn cool!!
Reminds me back during Ida when the torrential downpour floods broke through the basement door from the outside to the inside
At least no one in the family got hurt.
0:30 _"We actually just dealt with a sewer flood"_
Then maybe fix the cause of the problem, not only the result!
I just hope that everyone is all right. Hopefully, they’ve got insurance to cover this awful event
Despite the terrifying experience she managed to crake a joke😂
It is confirmed and true, basements can flood.
it was a pretty bad storm! there were leaves flying everywhere, couldn't see the mountains at all, biggest pieces of hail i've ever seen! we had at least a few inches of water on our front porch
I'm very concerned that this might happen to my grandparents house. I live in Arizona and there was heavy torrential rain a couple weeks ago for 30 minutes due to monsoon. Water droplets were dripping from the gashes in the airvent after it. I thought it was a leak but it dried up on it's own. Pretty scary
Omg I live right by this!
what an engaging and well-produced video! it's crazy to see how quickly the flooding escalated. however, i can't help but wonder if some property owners don't take warnings seriously enough. maybe this could've been prevented with better preparation?
Oh my goodness, how terrifying and devastating!
Probably more than 15K
😐 This why my mom picked me up and tossed me into the swimming pool after I said "I don't wanna learn how to swim". She said "You'll thank me for this later" while I was paddling furiously while swallowing chlorine water.
That first clip was not from the hurricane.
It was in Utah after a large rainstorm
Must be nice house
They didn't do 'everything' they could, to save their home, they were wearing swim trunks and grabbing keyboards and panicking "What do we do?"
Get flood insurance, even if you think you don't need it.
JUMANJI
Underrated comment.
Window/ egress well needs to be expended above the ground and caped with a plastic dome. Grade/ swale channel. May need a in-ground weeping system tied to the window well or at least a dry well.
Mother Nature's will cannot be outdone.
The basement kinda looked like a basement of a home when it is hit by a hurricane.
One hand holding the camera is one hand not helping move stuff
Footage is important for insurance
@@jayasmrmore3687 not as important as holding a big glass bowl full of gas near a wasp nest.
@@drink15 what does that have to do with this video
@@jayasmrmore3687 everything, it’s literally all this video is about.
@@drink15 where do you see a wasp nest though
This just happened to my in laws and because the water came in through the window, insurance refuses to pay. 😡🤬
We ran out of hot sauce. I wasn't informed before I started making the steak tacos. You'd think I would be.
huh
The sauce completes the dish.
Yes but there our different sources for different dishes, you may not want to only use the hot sources
Inconsiderate behavior leads to instability.
@@felyxmillicent6538 what the hell is going on here am i in the twilight zone
I'm shuddering at the thought of possible electrocution.
Looked like a scene out of the titanic
MotherEarth is beautiful
$15K is probably cheaper than if anyone get hurt in the US
All that only 15,000$ in damages they’re lucky. I was expecting it to be way more
I feel sorry for that family, and hope they have some good home insurance. I didn't know rain even got that bad in Utah seeing how part of that state is a desert. It's a good thing they don't live in Houston, Miami or New Orleans just to name a few other places where excessive rain and flooding gets even worse than that.
That’s nature baby😎
at least they got a indoor swimming pool😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
A basement should remain a basement. Basement looks like a house 😅
Holy cripe, that's awful!
Her names trippy red?
This is strait out of titanic
I cannot imagine my family living there and the same thing is happening there
Who films in a crisis? For entertainment?🤦
Peak american architectural engineering
Now have to worry about mold 😢
Home Insurance will find a way to not cover that.
Someone in the family probably drank coffee or tea and now they’re getting punished (iykyk)
When I was looking for home I purposely looked for ones that was on a high point on all 4 sides for reasons just like this
Geeesh.. $15000 repair smh.. that looked like a movie
More bottomland owners
Happend to me and i aint get no stupid ass news group to come and interview me after. Theres gotta be better things yall can do.
Window-wells were the stupidest idea.
Unless America gives a president for each state unfortunately it's impossible to know if somebody would have done this intentionally or not
house insurance????
I JUST FEEL LIKE SHE COULD'VE SAVED THAT SPECIFIC SCREAM FOR SOMETHING MORE FRIGHTENING/DEVASTATING.....😂🙄😂😂
You weren't there.
IN NYC THATS OVER 100K IN DAMAGES
That’s some Morman biblical stuff right there!
If that bad been me & that window broke in my house, I’d have just tossed whatever I was holding over my shoulder, grabbed my purse & car keys & left for a hotel. I’d be like Tom Hanks in The Money Pit when the bathtub upstairs falls through the floor.
It was like a tsunami hit that place.
That looks like a lot more than 15k
Stock it with Fish 🦈
Probably more than that in this economy
oh, they got it $$$ ... they're be ok 😂
They didnt even remove some stuff like if they wanted the water to destroy everything i would of had bringed stuff on a higher level or on a shelf
I . Did . Not .expect. That. Omg
What a MESS 😮
its a good thing an alligator didnt came through that window that would be so bad lol
Reminds me of Rau's IAS incident 😢
Poltergeist! You can't run didn't you see the movie
Like the movie titanic captain death window breaks
Ohh damn😮
That's scary.
I'm sure they have the money.
what do we do??? Don`t die?!
Time to move
😢❤❤❤
Parasite flashbacks intensifies!
Don't purchase a home on a flood plain and don't design a basement.
She put her kid's life in danger for the dollars of a neighbor!? Yeah, save the photos cause no one backs things up, but that takes 2 minutes if everyone has everything visible!!!! 15k, or someone's life is gone!!! POWER AND WATER KILLS!!!! and she recorded!!!???
Thats scary
Vote for me as your New President
I’m glad the ✨Christus✨is ok 😇
Is titanic. so sad
This reminds me of MouseHunt.
15 grand... more like 50 grand. really DUMB to own trash like this.
Derp