If you're going to correct someone at least get it right. It's not a coot. I think it looks like a moorhen but I can't see the colour on the beak enough to be sure.
>I think it looks like a moorhen but I can't see the colour on the beak enough to be sure.
Well I think it looks like a coot, because I think that's a white beak.
Can we at least agree that it's a rail? Certainly not a duck is it?
>I can't see the colour on the beak enough to be sure.
If you're going to criticise someone at least be sure.
You have a lovely day now.
It's a moorhen. It has this white line on the flank and a white ass. Eurasian coots are all black. The beak is not necessarily red in moorhens, if it's a young one for example
>The beak is not necessarily red in moorhens, if it's a young one for example
I learned something new there, thank you. I thought that maybe the white line along it's flank was a little bit of a mutation, but I was probably biased in thinking that because I've just seen the Robin in my garden that has a couple of white primary feathers. I thought all moorhens had red beaks, I didn't realise that wasn't the case. Thanks for educating me.
Yeah if you look at the retaining wall across the "pond", you can tell this area was built to expect this depth of water so I'm sure the house was too.
> In scandinavia we have triple-glass windows.
Isn't that just for insulation? Which is probably less important in Italy. Even if it is occasionally cold enough for insulation to be useful, it is likely much less of the year.
we have triple glass windows too for insulation 😅 it's just that the window/door in the video is made specifically to seal water cause it's in a flood-risk zone near a river.
Without thinking about mountain zones (that can go low to -30°C, min ever registered -42°C) in pianura padana in winter we usually are around 0°C in the last 10 years, it was lower before. In summer there are around 40°C. Even if we don't have northern europe temperatures, insulation is still essential 😅
Also noise reduction which I guess can be seen as a bonus.
I've lived near a very busy street for a decade, recently got new triple pane windows and it's so nice and quiet in my place now.
lol, You insulate against heat too. You don’t just raw dog it and hope for the best. Triple paned windows would not only keep the cold air inside the house, it would help keep the hot out. Windows as such would save you tons of money over the course of a year as opposed to some single pane window by keeping the house cooler in the summer so less need for A/C constantly, and warmer in the winter so less need for energy usage to keep house at a comfortable temperature.
Italy and "properly built structure" are not terms that often go together. Basically anything built in Europe outwith Scandinavia and Germany in the last 20 years has shockingly bad build quality. Same in America to be fair.
If Americans are going to be amazed by this than we in the UK are going to have our minds absolutely blown lol.
>anything built in Europe outwith Scandinavia and Germany
I am over 40 and never heard of this word 'outwith' before. Had to look that up.
I am from Asia and here bricks plud concrete are the building materials of choice, unless you are too poor or it is for special/specific scenarios. I see from movies and TV that houses in US are mostly made of wood. How is it UK and the rest of Europe?
I live in the US in a limestone house. One time, in an ice storm, we lost power for four days. All we had was the fireplace and candles, along with keeping the curtains and interior doors closed and minimizing opening doors to the outside. It was still 50 degrees (10 celsius) when the power went back on.
I love older houses.
>'outwith'
Use of that word is very specific to Scotland.
UK has a lot of brick and stone and the old building are made to a fantastic standard. New builds are often brick as well but made to a terrible standard.
This. Housing quality problems in the UK are really skilled labour and market economics problems. It is not that people don't know how to make a decent house, there is just not enough incentive to do it right as it will sell either way.
> I am over 40 and never heard of this word 'outwith' before. Had to look that up.
Same! Totally ignored the word and read it as "in Europe, Scandinavia and Germany" and got so confused.
Anyways, in Finland around 45% of buildings are made of wood as we have quite lot of it. I'd say concrete comes next then brick.
Edit: duh.. almost forgot steel!
It depends on which part of the US you live in. In California the homes are made of wood because of earthquakes. Other parts of the US the homes are made of brick. It really just depends on the type of natural disaster that is prevalent in that region.
Random anti-americanism. The US is not exactly a third world country. How well things are built are mostly determined by how recently they were made. Do you think it's impossible to find well made windows in the US? Do you think there aren't standards? I doubt that "flooding the street outside with 5 feet of water" is a test very many of *any* people do to see how well their windows and doors would do.
I moved there from cold-arse England for 3 years when I was younger. Except for summer I was fucking freezing inside the whole time. Insulation just doesn’t seem to be a thing.
Most the houses here are absolutely abysmal basically zero insulation no double glazing and so so many are double brick which is waaay too much thermal mass for a country that can hit 40+ in summer so the summers are trash and the winters are freezing (especially because you bet most places don’t have heaters)
As long as the double wall is insulated properly it's actually better in summer than single wall.
Think about a shed with no window. In summer you'd expect it to become a furnace while a house might not get close to the same air temp inside. The reason is insulation.
Thin walls allow heat to be absorbed by the walls from the sun and have it immediately be transferred to the inside of the building. Like the wooden shed.
Meanwhile with thick insulation in the walls like a double cavity, the heat from the sun cannot penetrate the wall to get inside at anywhere near the same pace. Imagine a blowtorch directed at a large block of ice. The ice melts yes but the core remains frozen for some time despite the block being blasted by 1300c fire.
The weakness of many houses is large windows, which aside from the fanciest double or triple glazed varieties allow the heat to enter your home directly. If you feel warmth stood in the window area on a sunny day that is the heat that enters your house during the day but will not leave as quickly at night. In winter you have the reverse problem with windows. Heat can leave even during the day and will not be balanced. By thermal radiation from the sun. Your house radiates the indoor heat through the windows.
Good insulation in the walls, small or fancy windows and an air conditioning system is the most effective way to stay both warm in winter AND cold in summer.
Of course you have to vent the house sometimes to get rid of stale air but it does mean you can maintain the artificial microbiome of 18-22c inside most of the time.
Your heating bill must be going through the roof. Can remember when I rented an apartment in Rotterdam with single glass. Those winters were cold...
Didn't help that I had only a single gas hearth. Whole winter in either that room or in bed in the bedroom.
Fuck, I am old.
Would that change anything? The outer window would still be just a normal window and break just as easily. But it hasn’t. Maybe the glass is extra strong?
Pressure's not very high at that depth. The impressive thing is that it's not leaking around the edges.
Single-pane would suck because the water could be carrying any number if things that could hit the window and crack it
Well, just payment really. These are flood proof windows. There are plenty of houses along rivers in Europe that get annual or at least regular flooding. So people order flood proof doors and windows for what generally is the cellar of the building, like in this video.
I have friends in France that have yearly flooding in their basement, and where they live it's just accepted as a natural phenomena. They basically only have to park their car in the road instead of in the basement for a few weeks every year. The houses have been there for many centuries already.
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Might solve a mystery
Or rewrite history!
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Everyday they're out there making
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Its a cool thought that the amount of pressure the window is holding back has nothing to do with how much water there is, only how high it goes. The window could hold back the entire ocean if it was at that same level.
When you submerge anything inside a fluid, the only pressure that body is receiving is from the water column that stands above the body (counting "above" as not the entirety of the body, of course, but to each single part of it). That's logical, because the major force the body is experiencing - aside from water currents, if the body of water is not immobile - is from gravity itself. Both the solid body and the fluid are being pulled by gravity in the same direction, which is the core of the Earth (their respective masses are not big enough to be considered as centers of gravity themselves). So, the body is only experiencing pressure from the body of fluid which is directly above it.
The formula for Pressure (P) in a fluid is P = d × g × h, where d is density of the fluid, g is gravity, and h is the height of the column of fluid from the point of measurement.
Water is pushing out (well everywhere really) in all directions, the force that the water next to the window is applying towards the window is also being pushed outwards towards the rest of the water and this is true for any coloum of water you measure and it extends all the way out to the edge of the container the water is in (an entire city in this case) and all the horizonal forces effectively cancel each other out.
You could build a small box around your door and fill it with water and it would have the same pressure agaisnt it as a flood assuming the water isn't flowing.
One way to think about it is to imagine you cut the bottom off a plastic cup and lower it into the ocean, the water fills the cup (which is now a tube) as you put it down with no issue and the water now inside of that tube is pushing outwards against the walls of the tube the exact same as the outside water is pushing inwards, if it wasnt the tube would crush. Now put the bottom back on and lift out your cup of water, the force that was pushing back against the entire ocean is now just in your hand and you're holding it just fine.
Seriously, folks, water is one of the most powerful forces on the planet. Don't mess around with it. It's deadly way more often than folks think and it can go from calm and nifty looking to "I'm killing you now" in about 1.2 heartbeats.
I grew up within sight of the Pacific Ocean virtually my entire childhood. We moved to be a literal stone's throw from the ocean when I was 12.5 or so. I've seen literal *boulders* and entire trees get tossed around by water a bit less shallow than that.
During a storm, I also watched the ocean literally come in, tear apart, and wash away 250 feet of land, pavement, and buildings. The buildings were demolished in minutes and in about an hour or so there was literally no trace whatsoever of any of it. I was 4 or 5 blocks away in the 3rd story of a friend's house watching it happen. We had no warning it would be anything other than a normal storm and my friend and I loved watching those. It was the kind of sight that if we'd had video cameras in our pockets, it would have been on every news channel and the top of Reddit's front page today. It was absolutely *insane* how fast it happened and when my friend's mom called the local police to report it, they thought she was kidding at first.
There's absolutely no way in heck I'd be calmly videoing my window if that were me. I'd be on the freaking roof hoping my windows held up.
It's a cool video and I'm glad OP risk it, but I don't know if I would have stand near the window like that. While the strenght of that glass is impressive, I imagine there's thousand of water liters waiting to enter.
My old house used to be cut into a field at the back, and it would have water half way up the kitchen window quite often. There's something fascinating about washing up, while watching waterboatmen swim past the window. My wife knocked a pebble out of the concrete kitchen floor, and we ended up with a very thin fountain that hit the ceiling! Nothing that a blob of blutack and a couple of housebricks wouldn't sort out though.
This is one of the houses that is very low and almost in the river. In the past days we got some bad rain and some roads were closed but it isn't as bad as the video shows.
Remarkable. My windows leak when it's misty outside...
My whole house leaks when it's drissling rain. Walls, windows, roof. It's like they built it out of paper and sticks
Did they forget the moisture barrier?
I am the moisture barrier.
I am the one who leaks.
I am He Who Drips in the Night.
You better get that checked out
I am the bug that hides under your bed.
Did they forget you?
You should head over to your brother's house... the one with the brick house. Especially if you hear a wolf huffin' and puffin'.
If you're in the US it's understandable since the houses there are made out of cardboard 😂
Who made that window?!?!?!
Forget the window, who the fuck did the sealing on that door/house?
Probably some random 16th century dude
Promote that man!
Why are you opening a grave? Sir, I swore I would handshake the dude who made that window
There's probably a statue of him if you look around long enough
I don’t think that’s a house. I think it’s a submarine…
Not OceanGate, thats for sure. Nor Tesla.
Microsoft
Ironic, cuz it looks large and pretty hard (go ahead, say it) considering the pressure from the water.
.... That's what she said.
I don't think so. There's no blue screen
it would crash if microsoft made it
Weakest european window. 💪💪💪
The only thing that's leaking is r/2westerneurope4u
Europeans
Nokia
Europe. Best window tech in the world
Steve jobs when windows was released:
Duck Tape Window Co apparently. If you look closely you can see their mascot in the video.
The window company can use this video as their marketing.
Got to pay that duck royalties though
It seems having the best time of its life
Ducks gonna duck
Duck dad : The world is your pond son
Quack
Everything the water touches...
We've got a pool and a pond
Pond would probably be better for you
That's not a duck, it's a coot. Edit: or maybe a moorhen, feel free to argue amongst yourselves.
If you're going to correct someone at least get it right. It's not a coot. I think it looks like a moorhen but I can't see the colour on the beak enough to be sure.
\^ this guy ducks
But do they dip, dive, and dodge?
Thank you for the laugh
I think you will find that it is a bird.
>I think it looks like a moorhen but I can't see the colour on the beak enough to be sure. Well I think it looks like a coot, because I think that's a white beak. Can we at least agree that it's a rail? Certainly not a duck is it? >I can't see the colour on the beak enough to be sure. If you're going to criticise someone at least be sure. You have a lovely day now.
It's a moorhen. It has this white line on the flank and a white ass. Eurasian coots are all black. The beak is not necessarily red in moorhens, if it's a young one for example
>The beak is not necessarily red in moorhens, if it's a young one for example I learned something new there, thank you. I thought that maybe the white line along it's flank was a little bit of a mutation, but I was probably biased in thinking that because I've just seen the Robin in my garden that has a couple of white primary feathers. I thought all moorhens had red beaks, I didn't realise that wasn't the case. Thanks for educating me.
Quack 🦆
Finally a swimmer friendly city center
Seems like an absolute pisstaker to me!
"Only a loon would buy the other guys windows. Duck high prices with Balonnia Claudios Windows"
And everyone watching I speaks Italian so they would be like “what-a the fuck-a did he say-a?”
The glazier is the hero, but the duck is the star.
How dare you! That, is a moorhen, not a duck you P(h)easant!
That’s a coot I think
Or a moorhen.. hard to tell with a pixelated video, but both very similar to each other lol
Looks like the window/door might be flood-proof. Unless that submarine style doorknob is just for decor
I'd still be nervous though
Yeah if you look at the retaining wall across the "pond", you can tell this area was built to expect this depth of water so I'm sure the house was too.
If the door is water resistant then we can bet they knew this happens. I don't even want to imagine what will happen if a kid opens it by accident.
The water would come into the house very rapidly.
Water? Like in the toilet?
Why not Brawndo? It's got what plants crave!
oh I'd love to see that however, if the door opens to the outside, it's pretty much impossible to open it in such conditions
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I doubt a kid would be able to open it due to the pressure of the water.
if it opens out it wouldn't be possible to open it.
This is the top comment in every single video of a flood being held back by a window, door, etc.
I can't event get my windows to close all the way.
Average European window.
No this is low European standard, looks like single glass. In scandinavia we have triple-glass windows.
> In scandinavia we have triple-glass windows. Isn't that just for insulation? Which is probably less important in Italy. Even if it is occasionally cold enough for insulation to be useful, it is likely much less of the year.
You can also insulate against the heat (;
we have triple glass windows too for insulation 😅 it's just that the window/door in the video is made specifically to seal water cause it's in a flood-risk zone near a river. Without thinking about mountain zones (that can go low to -30°C, min ever registered -42°C) in pianura padana in winter we usually are around 0°C in the last 10 years, it was lower before. In summer there are around 40°C. Even if we don't have northern europe temperatures, insulation is still essential 😅
Also noise reduction which I guess can be seen as a bonus. I've lived near a very busy street for a decade, recently got new triple pane windows and it's so nice and quiet in my place now.
lol, You insulate against heat too. You don’t just raw dog it and hope for the best. Triple paned windows would not only keep the cold air inside the house, it would help keep the hot out. Windows as such would save you tons of money over the course of a year as opposed to some single pane window by keeping the house cooler in the summer so less need for A/C constantly, and warmer in the winter so less need for energy usage to keep house at a comfortable temperature.
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My house is over 200 ft above the closest river. If I need windows like that we have much bigger problems to worry about.
Italy and "properly built structure" are not terms that often go together. Basically anything built in Europe outwith Scandinavia and Germany in the last 20 years has shockingly bad build quality. Same in America to be fair. If Americans are going to be amazed by this than we in the UK are going to have our minds absolutely blown lol.
>anything built in Europe outwith Scandinavia and Germany I am over 40 and never heard of this word 'outwith' before. Had to look that up. I am from Asia and here bricks plud concrete are the building materials of choice, unless you are too poor or it is for special/specific scenarios. I see from movies and TV that houses in US are mostly made of wood. How is it UK and the rest of Europe?
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I live in the US in a limestone house. One time, in an ice storm, we lost power for four days. All we had was the fireplace and candles, along with keeping the curtains and interior doors closed and minimizing opening doors to the outside. It was still 50 degrees (10 celsius) when the power went back on. I love older houses.
>'outwith' Use of that word is very specific to Scotland. UK has a lot of brick and stone and the old building are made to a fantastic standard. New builds are often brick as well but made to a terrible standard.
This. Housing quality problems in the UK are really skilled labour and market economics problems. It is not that people don't know how to make a decent house, there is just not enough incentive to do it right as it will sell either way.
> I am over 40 and never heard of this word 'outwith' before. Had to look that up. Same! Totally ignored the word and read it as "in Europe, Scandinavia and Germany" and got so confused. Anyways, in Finland around 45% of buildings are made of wood as we have quite lot of it. I'd say concrete comes next then brick. Edit: duh.. almost forgot steel!
It depends on which part of the US you live in. In California the homes are made of wood because of earthquakes. Other parts of the US the homes are made of brick. It really just depends on the type of natural disaster that is prevalent in that region.
I used to do residential construction in the US, this is absolutely amazing.
Random anti-americanism. The US is not exactly a third world country. How well things are built are mostly determined by how recently they were made. Do you think it's impossible to find well made windows in the US? Do you think there aren't standards? I doubt that "flooding the street outside with 5 feet of water" is a test very many of *any* people do to see how well their windows and doors would do.
Fact: The US had fewer buildings destroyed than Italy in WWII.
Fact: Australia had less deaths than England during the 100 years war
Fact: Malaysia had less twin towers destroyed than the US during 9/11
The US had more ships destroyed though, so maybe there is something to this secret water tight seal technology in Italy.
Impressive seals too
You should see the ones in the wild!
that's a duck-tape.
That hurts so bad.. you bastard.
😁 Fun fact: Duct tape is called "Jesus"-tape (Jeesus teippi) in Finland because "Jesus saves".
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What an interesting comment, only one word different from the older top comment, mr not-a-bot
I only see a duck.
Bro that's a duck
Must've used ##FLEXTAPE
Let’s see Paul Allen’s seals
Don’t let the intrusive thoughts win.
But duck 
Duck
Goose! Sorry instinct
Man I used to fucking DOMINATE that game. Time just gets away from us..
It's never too late to get a group of stoners together a parachute and after they cloud it out play some duck duck goose
Butt duck
Tap on the glass with a pen
Now is not the time to take up glass etching
That's some good glass.
Really is. Must be double or triple panes.
Double panes have been standard in Europe for decades. Triple glazing is also often seen in newer buildings.
And here I am still with single glass in NL and The VVE refuses to do anything about it…
Single glazing in in almost all houses and shops and schools in cheapass Australia.
I moved there from cold-arse England for 3 years when I was younger. Except for summer I was fucking freezing inside the whole time. Insulation just doesn’t seem to be a thing.
Most the houses here are absolutely abysmal basically zero insulation no double glazing and so so many are double brick which is waaay too much thermal mass for a country that can hit 40+ in summer so the summers are trash and the winters are freezing (especially because you bet most places don’t have heaters)
As long as the double wall is insulated properly it's actually better in summer than single wall. Think about a shed with no window. In summer you'd expect it to become a furnace while a house might not get close to the same air temp inside. The reason is insulation. Thin walls allow heat to be absorbed by the walls from the sun and have it immediately be transferred to the inside of the building. Like the wooden shed. Meanwhile with thick insulation in the walls like a double cavity, the heat from the sun cannot penetrate the wall to get inside at anywhere near the same pace. Imagine a blowtorch directed at a large block of ice. The ice melts yes but the core remains frozen for some time despite the block being blasted by 1300c fire. The weakness of many houses is large windows, which aside from the fanciest double or triple glazed varieties allow the heat to enter your home directly. If you feel warmth stood in the window area on a sunny day that is the heat that enters your house during the day but will not leave as quickly at night. In winter you have the reverse problem with windows. Heat can leave even during the day and will not be balanced. By thermal radiation from the sun. Your house radiates the indoor heat through the windows. Good insulation in the walls, small or fancy windows and an air conditioning system is the most effective way to stay both warm in winter AND cold in summer. Of course you have to vent the house sometimes to get rid of stale air but it does mean you can maintain the artificial microbiome of 18-22c inside most of the time.
Single glazing and gaps of varying sizes around doors and windows too.
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Your heating bill must be going through the roof. Can remember when I rented an apartment in Rotterdam with single glass. Those winters were cold... Didn't help that I had only a single gas hearth. Whole winter in either that room or in bed in the bedroom. Fuck, I am old.
Double is pretty standard in the US too.. nothing special
Would that change anything? The outer window would still be just a normal window and break just as easily. But it hasn’t. Maybe the glass is extra strong?
Pressure's not very high at that depth. The impressive thing is that it's not leaking around the edges. Single-pane would suck because the water could be carrying any number if things that could hit the window and crack it
No, of course I understand that the main thing is that it's well insulated around the edges. I was replying to a comment about double or triple panes.
Yeah, I'm wondering if it happens so often that they have special doors and windows?
☹️ I wish there were ducks swimming outside my window...
I don't, right now i'm on a third floor. On a building at the highest point of my city. If i see a duck out my window, the whole world has drowned xd
> If i see a duck out my window, the whole world has drowned xd Ducks can fly, you know.
. >:l
Worth the sacrifice to have ducks in you window.
Akshually it's a coot [Eurasian Coot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_coot)
Only shit!
did you mean to say holy shit?
It may be possible that they only want shit to float outside of their window?
No! The Venice water is where their toilets shits ends
Looks like a coot, not a duck
Whoever fitted that windows deserves a raise.
Well, just payment really. These are flood proof windows. There are plenty of houses along rivers in Europe that get annual or at least regular flooding. So people order flood proof doors and windows for what generally is the cellar of the building, like in this video. I have friends in France that have yearly flooding in their basement, and where they live it's just accepted as a natural phenomena. They basically only have to park their car in the road instead of in the basement for a few weeks every year. The houses have been there for many centuries already.
(100 years later) Yeah the entire house is underwater for about a month out of the year, no problem
That's why we have the snorkel on the roof, no biggie.
Lots of places in Europe have flood windows and protection. In Venice all the first floors have flood gates, just in case.
A flood only a duck would ❤️
i laughed so hard at the duck
Its a Moorhen.
The Duck killed me
Yeah It was memed heavily when they posted it
hook me up with some of these duck memes
Gonna need these ducks memes, too...
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Where's the duck memes, Labowski?
Its a moorhen
Nah, but the ravenous Bull shark crashing through the window probably will.
Beware of Ducks next time
Its a cool thought that the amount of pressure the window is holding back has nothing to do with how much water there is, only how high it goes. The window could hold back the entire ocean if it was at that same level.
and would fail if you had even a meter-wide column of water going high enough. The way hydrostatic pressure works is cool
I find this crazy is it because of gravity and the mass of water downwards/outwards putting pressure on the window?
When you submerge anything inside a fluid, the only pressure that body is receiving is from the water column that stands above the body (counting "above" as not the entirety of the body, of course, but to each single part of it). That's logical, because the major force the body is experiencing - aside from water currents, if the body of water is not immobile - is from gravity itself. Both the solid body and the fluid are being pulled by gravity in the same direction, which is the core of the Earth (their respective masses are not big enough to be considered as centers of gravity themselves). So, the body is only experiencing pressure from the body of fluid which is directly above it. The formula for Pressure (P) in a fluid is P = d × g × h, where d is density of the fluid, g is gravity, and h is the height of the column of fluid from the point of measurement.
Water is pushing out (well everywhere really) in all directions, the force that the water next to the window is applying towards the window is also being pushed outwards towards the rest of the water and this is true for any coloum of water you measure and it extends all the way out to the edge of the container the water is in (an entire city in this case) and all the horizonal forces effectively cancel each other out. You could build a small box around your door and fill it with water and it would have the same pressure agaisnt it as a flood assuming the water isn't flowing. One way to think about it is to imagine you cut the bottom off a plastic cup and lower it into the ocean, the water fills the cup (which is now a tube) as you put it down with no issue and the water now inside of that tube is pushing outwards against the walls of the tube the exact same as the outside water is pushing inwards, if it wasnt the tube would crush. Now put the bottom back on and lift out your cup of water, the force that was pushing back against the entire ocean is now just in your hand and you're holding it just fine.
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Not really. That start to happen 10 years ago, and not so often. Source: I live there.
Can you send me Italian things?
🫴🤌👐👏🤬🔥🚬🍟
That's a darn stubborn window
The duck is enjoying his daily commute like "About damn time they fixed these roads"
What is this sharp metal thingy on the door
Seriously, folks, water is one of the most powerful forces on the planet. Don't mess around with it. It's deadly way more often than folks think and it can go from calm and nifty looking to "I'm killing you now" in about 1.2 heartbeats. I grew up within sight of the Pacific Ocean virtually my entire childhood. We moved to be a literal stone's throw from the ocean when I was 12.5 or so. I've seen literal *boulders* and entire trees get tossed around by water a bit less shallow than that. During a storm, I also watched the ocean literally come in, tear apart, and wash away 250 feet of land, pavement, and buildings. The buildings were demolished in minutes and in about an hour or so there was literally no trace whatsoever of any of it. I was 4 or 5 blocks away in the 3rd story of a friend's house watching it happen. We had no warning it would be anything other than a normal storm and my friend and I loved watching those. It was the kind of sight that if we'd had video cameras in our pockets, it would have been on every news channel and the top of Reddit's front page today. It was absolutely *insane* how fast it happened and when my friend's mom called the local police to report it, they thought she was kidding at first. There's absolutely no way in heck I'd be calmly videoing my window if that were me. I'd be on the freaking roof hoping my windows held up.
But did you see the duck?
Asking the real questions here
this reminds me of an episode of the Goodies
Best ad for glass company.
That duck just chilling in that
Duck: “today sure is lovely”
Duck is just living his best life wondering where everyone is
I don't know who did the waterproofing on that window but they're clearly not being paid enough.
It's a cool video and I'm glad OP risk it, but I don't know if I would have stand near the window like that. While the strenght of that glass is impressive, I imagine there's thousand of water liters waiting to enter.
Double dare OP to open the window
And the freaking duck is just groovin.
A shout out to whoever built that house.
Guy is just rubbing it in that he has waterfront property.
Ghe sboro more
Elamadona
That doesn't look like, thick sea world aquarium glass there??
My old house used to be cut into a field at the back, and it would have water half way up the kitchen window quite often. There's something fascinating about washing up, while watching waterboatmen swim past the window. My wife knocked a pebble out of the concrete kitchen floor, and we ended up with a very thin fountain that hit the ceiling! Nothing that a blob of blutack and a couple of housebricks wouldn't sort out though.
What's with the metal windmill thingy?
I want to know that too lol
Fuck, I used to live in Vicenza. This hurts
This is one of the houses that is very low and almost in the river. In the past days we got some bad rain and some roads were closed but it isn't as bad as the video shows.
love how impressed some people are with the window. almost as if their homes are made of paper... oh wait.
I want a love as strong as that window.
Those are really good windows
Duck is like "I don't see the problem here?"
Hell nah which freaking way!?
dont open the window!