AquaFence was the real MVP of hurricane Milton

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1. The design is so simple but so smart, more water just makes it more secure.

2. Maybe if the didn't put the largest hospital in my city on the other end of a flood prone island in a hurricane prone state this wouldn't be a problem

3. Nothing about that fence should cost that much😂😂

4. Should rebuild Tampa General.. relocate it off the man made island.

5. I can imagine how this saved much time and worry from all the medical team on duty and looking after the patients.❤

6. Yet you still have folks who don't believe in climate change

7. Paid for itself already.

8. A country that doesn't have flooding problems came up with flood gates, go Norway 🇧🇻 🤣🤣🤣

9. wow

10. Guess what??? FDEM and FEMA will reimburse them 140% all the money they spent on trying to minimize their damages with Fence barriers …100% all their fence expenses paying the contractor and extra 40% on mitigation to enhance the fence barrier with flood pumps every 100ft or every exit have a flood door, if the water comes over the top of fence.

11. I built that hospital in 2005.

12. Norway is better than the US

13. Actually, the fence caused the flood!!!

14. Anywhere from $350,000.00 to $1,000,000.00 for a 1000’ of flood protection??? No wonder the poor will always be the victims. Good grief that’s outrageous and as another commenter said: “a money grab”.

15. Sure! Now if only they thought about it BEFORE building it on a SUBMERSIBLE ISLAND that is unaccessible after a hurricane so that, you know, injured people could access without a boat?

16. Norweigans & Finns know what good quality is..

17. How does anyone get to inside the hospital without flooding it.

18. I like that we are finding solutions to the problems we are currently making instead of just not making the problems

19. Uhm. It rains inside the fence. So, if you get like 15 inches in an hour, the water is contained close the building. This is a GREAT idea for the coast and storm surge concerns. Inland with rain events, it could pose challenges. No magic bullet but it is a great start.

20. 😯👏👏👏💪🙌

21. The only reason that fence worked was because Milton did not come to the Tampa Bay Area!!!

    Let’s be real here….

22. What people don't realize about aquafence is that you need a drill strong enough to drill through concrete.

23. Too bad our government would rather give billions of dollars to fund genocide than spend our hard earned tax dollars on fences like these to protect our citizens

24. ……dont be in hurricaine zones and tornado alleys. Those are known as "uninhabitable" or otherwise "unfit for human occupancy"

    ….obviously.

25. Why’s is the hospital RIGHT THERE tho. I mean really? I know sometimes there’s not much to be done. But whoever planned that had extreme poor planning skills and shouldn’t have probably had that job.

26. Soooooo just put this at the beach and no more problem?

27. the reason it worked is ,it wasn't "built in America"

28. The problem with doing this everywhere instead of just key locations is that it displaced the water too much, making it rise even higher if there is no where to go. Like if a neighborhood all had these around their homes, the water would almost triple in depth as it pushes through.

    I saw an interesting video on all this when a guy and barrier around his home, leaving it utterly untouched. It made others want it too, but then it brought up this discussion among experts.

29. Ah, tampa general. Im currently in there right now. Had no idea this stuff was being used outside though.

30. Why was a hospital built on what is, essentially, a barrier island?

    Does any one know the history behind them doing that?

31. It stood up against Helene too just a week prior

32. While awesome that the hospital was protected. What those walls, and levees in general, cause is the water will rise slightly causing significant more damage elsewhere. It becomes the battle of the levees.

    Solution? Don't build on storm land. If you do, build the proper infrastructure. Good example, red river floodway

33. yeah Tampa General it's built on a terrible location

34. Houses should have used that too

35. Per ft? 😂 so it’s just to keep the mega rich safe

36. $1000 per foot?!?

37. What’s funny is that on the video of them actively setting this up, people were saying “it’s not going to work”. And crazy how it did

38. Amazing invention, capitalism done right. 👍

39. That fence unquestionably paid for itself during the hurricane. For anyone who doesn’t work in a hospital, a flood would’ve completely ruined tens of millions of dollars worth of equipment on top of making the hospital conditions unsuitable for patients.

40. It looks zombie proof too

41. $350 to $1000 per linear foot. Expensive but it works!

42. That fence legit just paid for itself and has just provided the absolute best marketing that company could’ve asked for

43. Would the fence hold up against 252 km/hr winds of a category 5 hurricane? 🎉

44. I wondering how it does with the rain trapped in inside the area you don’t want flooded, it wouldn’t be a problem for a few night like for the Milton event. But if it was prolonged. Maybe some sort of pump system to pump the water out.

45. 1000 $ a foot i think we have plenty of plastic in America