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ScreamingMeemie

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3. Here, where I live, they need to dynamite the space.

Reply to SoCalDem (Original post)

Tue May 21, 2013, 05:53 PM

May 2013

You can do it (under your garage) but it's going to cost you almost 100K extra.

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If there are septic tanks in a community, there can be shelters underground [View all] SoCalDem May 2013 OP

I bet the roof of that school bus would peel back like a sardine can. Gravitycollapse May 2013 #1

That photo may have been before it was covered up :) SoCalDem May 2013 #2

Here, where I live, they need to dynamite the space. ScreamingMeemie May 2013 #3

there will always be exceptions, but I guess it just depends on luck SoCalDem May 2013 #4

Right now? Uninsurable healthwise...so I'm worthless. No worries. ScreamingMeemie May 2013 #5

Do you run water and sewer pipes above the ground there? htuttle May 2013 #8

They are just below surface and often need to be replaced. ScreamingMeemie May 2013 #16

our plan is the cave out back, narrow entrance and only ten by twenty inside loli phabay May 2013 #6

and it's free too.. sounds like a plan.. SoCalDem May 2013 #7

salamanders and lots of spiders, guess i will have to take the wet vac loli phabay May 2013 #33

This op is devoid of factual basis galileoreloaded May 2013 #9

tell that to people who crawled out safely.. SoCalDem May 2013 #10

A full septic tank doesn't have buoyancy Fumesucker May 2013 #15

What is going on in that picture?! nt Demo_Chris May 2013 #18

A drained swimming pool is rising out of the ground Fumesucker May 2013 #20

Absolutely amazing. nt Demo_Chris May 2013 #43

That photo makes me worry about my tank's pump chamber wercal May 2013 #23

I've seen swimming pools, Septic tanks, and those concrete coffin containers float up 1-Old-Man May 2013 #35

Then how is it that tunnels are built under water? Isoldeblue May 2013 #13

Probably because there are always naysayers (pennypinchers) who convince SoCalDem May 2013 #22

I've considered using an empty septic tank wercal May 2013 #17

Yep.. If you put a concrete pad under it and bolted straps to hold it tightly maybe SoCalDem May 2013 #24

No need to strap a concrete tank to anything wercal May 2013 #30

I agree. Every single gas station in this country has 2-3 USTs* and they are not floating away. FSogol May 2013 #32

Good Point wercal May 2013 #34

We did a bunch of ASTs (Above Ground Storage tanks) about 10 years ago. FSogol May 2013 #37

Thanks for the info wercal May 2013 #38

Yes (on the wells), but that is the wimpiest type of monitoring. FSogol May 2013 #39

Ah, unit price is always good for those 'unknowns' wercal May 2013 #42

well there is always this SoCalDem May 2013 #46

Where I live Yo_Mama May 2013 #25

Umm.... septic tanks don't float with the water table. n/t lumberjack_jeff May 2013 #11

I don't recall saying that they did SoCalDem May 2013 #12

A septic tank won't float on the water table, a bomb shelter will. lumberjack_jeff May 2013 #14

In a way it does.. SoCalDem May 2013 #26

It's the high water table. NutmegYankee May 2013 #28

They might if they were empty wercal May 2013 #19

due to pressure from the water in the soil, septic tanks frequently implode when pumped out. lumberjack_jeff May 2013 #21

I honestly have never heard of a septic tank imploding wercal May 2013 #27

A septic tank will be filled with fluid Yo_Mama May 2013 #29

Yoo-Hoo wercal May 2013 #31

Are you referring to the GOP think tanks? Blue Owl May 2013 #36

Haha! Good one! n/t Cleita May 2013 #41

In "The Wizard of Oz", didn't Dorothy's family ride out Cleita May 2013 #40

My Aunt Effie had a nice root cellar. We kids always loved to go down there SoCalDem May 2013 #44

Anderson Cooper just said that people don't have basements in the Oklahomacity area applegrove May 2013 #45

I bet they change their minds. Cleita May 2013 #47

It's all about priorities gopiscrap May 2013 #48

Not if you live in South Florida. RebelOne May 2013 #49