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Motorboats & floating warehouse systems

A place suffered from flooding twice yearly &, while it was waiting for millions of dollars to improve the draining system, it should have developed automatically triggered motorboats & floating warehouses to be used once a flood alarm was activated. Once the river water level reaches a critical level, the town shall have a floating warehouse (an inflatable warehouse with air and material strong enough to cope with floods) ready and allow low-lying residences to store their valuable assets in this floating warehouse. When there is a flood, motorboat rescue teams shall take all residents of low-lying land to a victims center on higher ground. Their valuable assets such as home appliances and furniture can all pre-stored at the floating warehouse to reduce losses. A special zone on higher ground shall be set aside for car owners to park their car.

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Ralf Longwitz Seems like a major logistical effort to move all valuable appliances and furniture to such warehouses and back. Especially when thousands of households want to do it at once, in larger cities ...
29 Jun 2023
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Sidhartha Mohanty This is a good idea, however technology has to be really scalable and should apply to country's local conditions
22 Feb 2022
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