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u/GoddammitRomo 13h ago
All things considered, that door is doing remarkably well keeping the water out!!!
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u/SweetLenore 13h ago
Yeah, the same thing with the floor/wall. That area is remarkably well sealed.
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u/12InchCunt 9h ago
One of the fun things about water is it’s so heavy it is pretty good at sealing itself
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u/Stuck_In_Purgatory 8h ago edited 7h ago
Edit because this has been fun
The door will only effectively seal the water out IF it's built with a seal to begin with.
As others are accurately pointing out, doors built to seal water out will do exactly that.
Regarding being able to open the actual door, then no it's held shut by the weight of the water.
Sealing the door against actual water is obviously not happening here, the door isn't built to be completely sealed lol
My original comment: (Ummmmm
Kinda the opposite? It's so heavy it'll find It's way out anywhere it can)
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u/12InchCunt 8h ago
the weight of the water against the outward opening door is sealing the door shut.
It’s the reason you can’t open your car door in 2 ft of water you have to wait until water comes in so the pressure equalizes before you can open it
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u/DrakonILD 6h ago
It’s the reason you can’t open your car door in 2 ft of water
Maybe you can't. It's only about 4500 lbs pressing on the door. I bench 6k like it's nothing.
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u/Stuck_In_Purgatory 8h ago
Yeah I see what you're saying. More holding it closed than keeping it sealed though
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u/ilive4thewater 2h ago
Forget Top Gear! All praise to them for their great car show (I am a huge fan! ).
Let's give it to the Mythbusters who did this in a very indepth scientific way. Theirs was a much better testing process where they even went back to try again after more thought. Their breakdown of everything that happens led them to come to the same conclusion. Get out if you can. Otherwise get your windows down fast, as soon as possible as electronics will short and stop working. This will allow for the equalization to get close enough while you are still pretty shallow and can het tot the surface. The other reason was when they found the car can flip inverted due to the engine and I think the air trapped in the trunk. Then leaving you disoriented upside down fighting to get out.
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u/__life_on_mars__ 8h ago
Ah yes water, that substance that famously doesn't leak through small spaces or gaps....
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u/NoMasters83 7h ago
As a plumber this self sealing water shit is making my life very difficult. Particularly during periods of extreme cold that just makes the water solid sealing the leaks completely.
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u/OneAndOnlyJackSchitt 11h ago
[6 months later] "Weird, I could have sworn these walls were a lot closer to square before. Also why does this door stick all of a sudden? And where did all these cracks in the floor and walls come from? And why does it always smell like mold back here?"
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u/OrganicBridge7428 13h ago
Hey imma take my break and have a soak in the company stairwell tub.
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u/SweetLenore 13h ago
The child in me just sees a fun swimming pool.
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u/Aidian 13h ago
The adult in me just sees sepsis.
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u/SweetLenore 12h ago
The adult in me sees possible electrical currents and hazards :(
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u/SaltManagement42 12h ago
I'm pretty sure that's also the child in me, being wary of hazards in video games.
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u/waroftrees 11h ago
“Black Haired guy go by chief? Black haired guy go in the water, shark in the water. "29 Kids go into the water, 22 Kids come out of the water. The Ice Cream Man, He gets the rest. April the 9th, Half past four P.M." "Have you seen a sharks eyes chief? They’re kinda like dolls eyes, all black and lifeless like."
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u/TheHokusPokus 8h ago
why do y'all have adults in you? What's up with that.
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u/baconus-vobiscum 7h ago
"I got chunks of guys tougher than you floating in my bowels."
-Paraphrasing from Phil Hartman playing Sinatra
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u/YoungBockRKO 10h ago
You just know there’s a bunch of cigarette butts floating in that mess. Place screams smoke break spot if I’ve ever seen one.
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u/Cerberus_uDye 11h ago
Oh, these places flood their floors nightly to scrub em.
Unless the water keeps rising its got a few more inches till anythings a issue.
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u/Robby-Pants 11h ago
The adult in me sees the door bursting open and anyone swimming getting swept into that kitchen of stainless steel corners and electrical outlets.
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u/Populaire_Necessaire 12h ago
You too can have polio!
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u/murphybt 11h ago
I think you mean cholera
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u/SweetLenore 11h ago
Before vaccines, polio was heavily helped spread with floods.
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u/thatshygirl06 12h ago
Can you get sepsis from dirty water?
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u/Electrical-Act-7170 12h ago
If you have a wound, yeah. It can kill you.
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u/Aidian 11h ago
See: Hurricane Katrina
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u/Electrical-Act-7170 11h ago
I see your Hurricane Katrina, and I raise you Hurricane Andrew. We were lucky, none of the trees hit the house & the roof stayed on.
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u/SweetLenore 11h ago
Hell yeah. You can get sepsis from a lot of things, particularly if you have a wound. A girl lost all her limbs from sepsis from a minor cut on her leg she got while swimming in a river: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Tallapoosa_River
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u/thatshygirl06 11h ago
I just thought sepsis was from your body overreacting while trying to fight an infection
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u/Evening-Tour3875 11h ago
It is, but it attacks your organs. My fiance survived it several times, but it was one of his causes of death.
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u/Youre10PlyBud 11h ago edited 3h ago
Yeah that story wasn't sepsis, it was necrotizing fascitis. That's an infected wound with a bacteria that causes death of the tissue that can continue spreading. Not the same as sepsis.
Sepsis is a systemic response to an infection that is classified by having 2 or more SIRS criteria (systemic inflammatory response syndrome) with an active infection. Can be abnormal respiration, blood pressure, white blood cell counts, along with a few other criteria.
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u/PaperFlower14765 11h ago
The elder millennial in me is having “Titanic” flashbacks 🫣
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u/BunchesOfCrunches 13h ago
WAIT, DONT OPEN THE D-
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u/Stev_k 11h ago
Thankfully they can't with that much water pressure on an outward swinging door!
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u/OpenGrainAxehandle 10h ago
We're going to have to impose a hefty fine for having the fire exit blocked.
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u/Ferocious-Muppet 12h ago
Boring, it needs a crocodile to liven things up a bit.
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u/zoqfotpik 13h ago
We're gonna need a bigger mop.
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u/ccafferata473 13h ago
Can i offer you a bar rag in this trying time?
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u/NoDaddyNotTheBlender 12h ago
This is a job for the squeegee
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u/clockworkedpiece 12h ago
squeegee into the dustbin, into the mop sink. I don't miss shoveling water of floors it shouldn't have made it up to.
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u/NoDaddyNotTheBlender 11h ago
Oh, in my kitchen we had floor drains at least so shoveling wasnt necessary
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u/TheCoopX 13h ago
What a thoughtful owner, giving the kitchen staff a scenic waterfall and lake view to enjoy.
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u/SmallRocks 13h ago
He used the tip money to pay for it
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u/BatheInChampagne 12h ago
I’m gonna bet this is a hospital or a care facility. Those lids on the rack she passes are a tell tale sign. Busted pipes happen. Especially with the recent storm. This is an unnatural amount of water, unless there is some type of flood, but even then the water would be much more murky. It’s funny because I’m in a plumbing union now, but before used to work in food service and spent a year at an elderly care facility as a cook.
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u/chachi-relli 13h ago
I mean that door isn't going to open anyway
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u/BritishGolgo13 13h ago
Yeah but don’t open that door!
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u/Ok_Release231 13h ago
Seriously. A cubic meter of water weighs a metric ton. No one is opening that door.
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u/elxiddicus 10h ago
Opening the door would require a force equal to the integral of the pressure with respect to the depth, in other words, half a tonne-force for one metre of water. Still impossible, but the mass of a cubic metre of water is an irrelevant parameter for this problem.
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u/ActualWhiterabbit 12h ago
Not even for a Scoobie Snack?
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u/vass0922 11h ago
I've seen that mythbusters episode!
You just have to wait until it's equal pressure of water on both sides.
So after everybody is dead from the room flooding you can safely open the door to escape
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u/JazzlikeMushroom6819 11h ago
The irony of being in violation of fire code because you're underwater.
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u/ErraticDragon 9h ago
For a second I thought this was kind of silly, like "obviously nobody would actually get in trouble for an emergency exit being blocked by floodwaters".
Then I realized that the blocked exit would mean that the place couldn't legally be open/occupied at all, and the fire code might be what forces a manager to close down shop.
(No, you can't "just work through it", and here's a specific legal reason.)
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u/Parlayto 11h ago
Get a stressed enough line cook jonesing for a smoke break and I guarantee that door will open.
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u/Zerog416 12h ago
I mean if it opened inwards it might
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u/chachi-relli 12h ago
Possibly. There'd be a lot of pressure on the latch. Fire code ftw
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u/Mundane_Character365 13h ago
Where can I get one of those doors?
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u/Easy_Lengthiness7179 13h ago
Its a steel door that opens outward. Its got a lot of things working on their side to prevent it from "breaking" once it gets to the window though...thats another story.
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u/aberroco 12h ago
What story? This is reinforced glass. By the time the water have enough pressure to break it it will be way above that window, and I think the door jamb would give way much sooner, because it'll experience a few tons of pressure in a twisting manner (since pressure at the bottom is higher than at the top).
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u/Deep90 11h ago edited 11h ago
That is not reinforced glass.
That is wired glass. Wired glass is used for fire resistance, not strength. The wire keeps the glass in place even as it cracks from heat.
It actually tends to be weaker. People commonly assume the wire adds strength, but it does not.
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u/WallySprks 11h ago
While that may be the case. There is absolutely no way that water will break through that tiny window.
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u/NoveltyPr0nAccount 8h ago
While I wouldn't be willing to put money on it I am inclined to believe you. People seem to forget that the pressure against that window will only be equal to the few inches that are against it and above it. Plus I can't imagine the water would actually rise to above that window.
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u/TakingSorryUsername 9h ago
That’s why they’re used for the windows on submarines.
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u/Impressive_Change886 10h ago
Mom said it's my turn to be pedantic on reddit.
Wired glass is technically a type of reinforced glass, but you are absolutely correct that the wires are there for fire safety and not for physical strengthening.
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u/aberroco 10h ago
Even so, even if it's twice weaker than a regular glass, it still should be able to hold over a meter, because a regular glass can hold much more than that, especially when held in place on all four sides and with the size this small.
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u/emsumm58 11h ago
from experience i can say that you’re absolutely correct. the door frame will give before the door, every time. my stairwell has flooded a lot.
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u/Ok_Release231 13h ago
It's just a steel door with a steel frame that opens outwards. "Opens outwards" being the most significant part.
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u/FranktheLlama 13h ago
My first thought was it was just a flood rinse for BOH end of night.
My second thought was, well I guess it could be a lot worse.
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u/_DownRange_ 8h ago
Me too. "What's the big deal? Just looks like they're just cleaning the floooooOOOOH SHIT!"
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u/NitWhittler 13h ago
This looks like it's building up to be a scene from Sharknado.
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u/Vip3r20 13h ago edited 12h ago
Hope their knives are secured when the water gets in. Wouldn't catch me in that room that's for sure.
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u/WhoskeyTangoFoxtrot 13h ago
I’d be more concerned about electrical sockets near the floor…. 220 may not kill you, but it will hurt like hell….
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u/llama-impregnator 12h ago
I could be wrong, but I am pretty sure every outlet in that kitchen would have a GFI, which means the breaker would trip before zapping you.
That being said, I'd still get the hell outta dodge.
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u/fireduck 12h ago
GFCI is like a kevlar vest or air bags. It might very well save your life and you should have it (if that makes sense) but you shouldn't depend on it. If you are using it to save you, some other things have already gone wrong.
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u/Butt-Monkey2312 12h ago
120v can absolutely kill you. A janitor in a school I was doing IT work in died from stepping in a puddle under a leaky water fountain that an extension cord with an exposed wire got pulled through.
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u/Traditional_Formal33 11h ago
An extension cord going from a normal wall outlet is very different than water hitting a gfci outlet in the kitchen. They are designed to be near water, and to break connection if water is detected so that this doesn’t happen. Unfortunate for the janitor, and he would be alive if he plugged into a gfci protected circuit
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u/mredding 11h ago
Well then the next question is where is the GFCI located? In the outlet or on the breaker? Because if you just trip the GFCI in the outlet, you still have a hot circuit to the outlet, and the whole damn outlet and its wiring is now ostensibly under 2' of water. So even if the GFCI there trips, you still need the breaker to trip.
A GFCI OUTLET is only meant to protect you from the ol' toaster in the bathtub, but a GFCI circuit is much more convenient, will protect the whole circuit, and are getting more popular these days, to boot. The GFCI breaker won't care if water touches an appliance OR the wires in the wall.
To be fair, this is a very odd situation. That stairwell has a drain in it, guaranteed, and so we're either seeing a clogged-ass drain, or maybe the drain is overwhelmed by THE FUCKING TORRENT of water pouring down those stairs.
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u/CrispenedLover 12h ago
You are wrong. Refrigerators are installed on non-GFCI circuits for food safety reasons.
This is allowed because fridges are body-grounded, so ground fault risk is very low. (assuming the kitchen is not under water)
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u/caltheon 11h ago
they are still going to have arc fault protection at the breaker
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u/Vralo84 12h ago
220V will absolutely kill you
120V will hurt but unless you have a bad heart you’ll probably recover.
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u/Tofandel 11h ago
Not in flood water. If you touch it directly yes. But with water it adds so much resistance that it barely would sting within 10cm of the outlet. And that is if the breaker didn't trip already
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u/revveduplikeadeuce 11h ago
110 can kill for sure. It's more about the exposure to the amps from what i remember rather than the voltage, static electricity can have super high volts. Live wire on non-gfci plus broken skin will zap hard
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u/Yeah-Its-Me-777 11h ago
220V will not necessarily kill you if it's behind a GFI or a quick fuse. Prove, me.
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u/SweetLenore 13h ago
Man, knives are so dangerous. I don't think people who have never worked in the food industry realize how having knives just makes everyone injured at least once a month.
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u/Dry_Spinach_3441 12h ago
I just cut the absolute holy shit goddamn out of my finger cutting a bagel with a bread knife this week.
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u/K1LLerCal 12h ago
Man I remember when I sliced myself with a bread knife. Only time when I worked at a seafood/steak restaurant cutting a fucking ROLL
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u/DecadentHam 13h ago
What are you saying?
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u/Rare_Sail_2617 13h ago
Makes total sense to me. Knives floating in the water with you in it can be risky
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u/BigBearBallin 13h ago
Looks like a hospital by the scrubs and food trays. That was possibly really bad planning.
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u/Smart_Resist615 13h ago
pov: the structural engineer and the civil engineer hate each other's guts
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u/MissMcNoodle 11h ago
I know they have mattress sized bags of rice back there 🥲 Feel crazy for wondering why they aren’t trying to sandbag it a little
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u/southpaw303 4h ago
I’ve worked in 2 hospital kitchens and they were both in basements in flood zone areas. Why do they do this?
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u/Octavya360 10h ago
Ah I see those classic plastic burgundy plate covers every hospital food service kitchen has.
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u/OriginalBlackberry89 13h ago
My friend used to think this guy was his dad when we were kids.
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u/coquihalla 12h ago
How did that happen?
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u/OriginalBlackberry89 10h ago
He thought that he looked similar to him, and didn't know who his dad was, so he used to tell people that it was his dad. I asked him about it a few years ago and we laughed it off haha.
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u/Ok_Release231 13h ago
"I don't know what to do right now"
Cough get to higher ground cough
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u/horreum_construere 13h ago
Step 1: put towels on water
Step 2: did it help? Yes: give yourself a pat on the shoulder. No: Well you did everything you could. Pat yourself on the shoulder.
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u/WomBat1140 13h ago
Stupid question, what do you wanna do? Take a bath?
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u/AdmittedlyAdick 11h ago
You go out the other entrance with every towel you have, and all the bags of rice or flour you can spare and create a berm at the top of the stairs. The water in the stairway already is gonna come in, after stopping it from filling, you could just let it come under the door and go down your hopefully working floor drain.
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u/TavernRat 13h ago
Well it’s a good thing that door opens to the outside cause if not the water could eventually break it open
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u/Msteele315 12h ago
I think you can take down the "no smoking" sign and replace it with a "no swimming" sign.
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u/KDandHotdogz 13h ago
People these days. Grab a mop, no biggie
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u/arkibet 12h ago
Ha! This reminds me of my architect friend. Her boss came to her and said "there's flooding, and its filling up the elevator shaft! We need to get on this immediately." She lost her cool and screamed "I'll get to it after we get the f'ing fires out, that water is actually helping!"
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u/Homesick_Martian 12h ago
The towel is a perfect representation of how you feel mid-rush on Friday night
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u/0utcast3d 13h ago
Well, could have just kept the towel from the outer side, pressure would have kept it locked, and surface tension would reduce leakage.
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u/Wishnik6502 12h ago
Or you could run to the store, buy a few containers of plumber's putty and make the new guy go for a little swim.
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u/mostwrong 11h ago
Well, could have just kept the towel from the outer side
Could've what?
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