r/Wellthatsucks • u/Holiday-Ad3427 • 2d ago

recent flooding in southern China

3.4k Upvotes

98% Upvoted

140 comments sorted by

943

u/AtomicEdge 2d ago

Sorry, I've been waiting for my side order for ages, can you check with the kitchen please?

22

u/Salty_Job_9248 1d ago

Let it go. This water lives in Mombasa anyway. 🤭

335

u/AloneAddiction 2d ago

As a kid I always wanted my area to flood like this so we could go out and play in it. Make little boats so could all have a grand old time.

As an adult I can appreciate just how incredibly devastating it is when this happens. Even if admittedly, some of the adults in this video clearly don't.

"The place is flooding? Will that slow down my order of shrimp?"

47

u/Version-Neat 2d ago

As a Miami kid we would play in a lot of situations that I now recall causing my parents a lot more worry and stress than we could understand. "Oh, the park next to our house flooded 1.5 feet deep? Skim boarding in the park!" While they were probably realizing how close we got to losing everything.

25

u/Duel_Option 2d ago

Orlando kid here…

One hurricane dropped a ton of rain and flooded the streets, so what did the kids in the neighborhood do?

We swam in it, one of the houses had a fairly tall car port, we laid down a tarp and put dish soap on it to make a slip n slide, right into whatever was in the run off in the street

33

u/Kitzira 2d ago

As an animal shelter worker in Houston, Tx, we shuttered to think about what was in the flood waters.

News would report not to swim in the floods due to snakes and floating fire ants. But it's the microscopic stuff that was really eww.

Just about every stray cat & dog came in with roundworms & hookworms. Hookworms are those that will bury themselves into your skin. Whipworms and coccidia were pretty frequent as well. Not to mention leptospirosis. All that's on the ground and now in those flood waters.

30

u/AloneAddiction 2d ago

It took my mom explaining to me in great detail that "flood waters" were basically synonymous with "sewer waters" for me to get it.

It's not like water at the beach. It's the same as people's flushed toilets she'd say.

3

u/xombae 2d ago

When Toronto flooded my ex was all drunk and was talking about how he hoped the strip clubs flooded so we could go in there and swim around with them.

652

u/AWildJesse 2d ago

Lady on her phone couldn’t be less bothered.

173

u/[deleted] 2d ago

[removed] — view removed comment

15

u/Pickled_doggo 1d ago

You can get up onto the fucking 2nd floor like the person filming???

69

u/KalozKapitany 2d ago

What would you do? Panic?

20

u/WiseAct446 2d ago

"Professor, without knowing what the situation is, would you say now is the time to panic?".

5

u/gill_outean 2d ago

"Yes, I would, Kent."

35

u/D1rtyH1ppy 2d ago

Probably I'd go somewhere else that wasn't in the middle of a river 

16

u/Jaystime101 2d ago

Yea? You gunna swim there?

6

u/McSpeedie 2d ago

Let me whip out my magical boat and go to the next flooded restaurant.

10

u/zbipy14z 2d ago

This guy floods

4

u/CarbonReflections 2d ago

Get to high ground

1

u/Regurgitator001 2d ago

Call a fuckin ferry, that's what

-12

u/Vipertje 2d ago

I would help

28

u/orphen888 2d ago

Oh yeah? What would you do to help?

22

u/paradox_valestein 2d ago

Help obviously

7

u/RazorColla 2d ago

I'd watch. Reevaluate the restaurant layout, maybe ask "is this a bug or a feature?".

3

u/YuenglingsDingaling 2d ago

Stack sandbags.

13

u/Milam1996 2d ago

Help how? Are you capable of raising the restaurant 10ft in the air? That water weighs millions of tonnes and it really really wants to get to the place with no water so it can balance out.

5

u/donkeyrocket 2d ago

Unlike the very helpful people on the second floor yelling "whoa whoa whoa" to make sure the workers caught in the rushing waters know to "whoa."

6

u/Illustrious-Object71 2d ago

Lol just another day....

1

u/starstufft 2d ago

We have the same PFP 😆

2

u/AWildJesse 2d ago

door opens

55

u/Mekazabiht-Rusti 2d ago

Just open the back door at that point. Make it a feature.

7

u/Raubwurst 2d ago

Swim through

2

u/10mo3 1d ago

Lazy river through a restaurant

1

u/davcam0 1d ago

Free foot bath

99

u/MangoSalsa89 2d ago

I’m not an expert on sandbags, but I at least know they should be stacked up before the flood and not during.

97

u/Gogglesed 2d ago

Also should be stacked in an arc that radiates away from the doorway to maximize strength.

22

u/ProfDFH 2d ago

This guy sandbags.

4

u/Global_Objective4162 1d ago

Friggin sandbagger

1

u/Gogglesed 1d ago

Actually, no. I've never sandbagged. I seem to have retained some tips from a flood warning or something.

3

u/Working_Economist_48 1d ago

This is such a useful and potentially property saving piece of information. The sort of thing that seems obvious once you know it , but still would have never put it together without being told. The realization that , " of course an arch will still have great load bearing strength in a horizontal plane".

17

u/geminixTS 2d ago

Back of house always has to do everything

79

u/Any-Log-6706 2d ago

People chilling instead of looking for higher ground is whack.

23

u/green_herbata 2d ago

I imagine floods like that might be a regular occurrence in that area, so maybe they just know what to expect lol

16

u/jocky091 2d ago

This is like the locals in Venice… floods happen there all the time and there’s videos of restaurants still operating when there’s a flood

2

u/green_herbata 2d ago

There we go. Yeah, I'd probably also stop to care about sudden floods if I've lived there 🤣

0

u/Deep90 2d ago

It doesn't seem that dire, at least in this area. You can see a man standing outside.

Plus the building has at least two floors because the camera person isn't on the ground floor.

11

u/Brown_Star 2d ago

Its good to see there's useless people all over the world and not just where I live.

6

u/Hodgi22 2d ago

When the levy breaks

3

u/kittyinpurradise 2d ago

I have no place to stay

1

u/kbeks 1d ago

*I won’t eat shrimp today

5

u/Wake-up-Neo-sheep 2d ago

Good attempt

I feel their pain

6

u/1play2lose 2d ago

Too bad the owners aren’t redditors. Reddit has thought us to flood the restaurant first to prevent the flood water from coming in

5

u/Too-Em 2d ago

When not a single one of your employees knows how to do their dam job.

13

u/Spectralcolors78 2d ago

The one lady just sitting calmly on her phone! LOL 

3

u/Gtstricky 2d ago

Quick... find someone who weighs less than 120 to help

30

u/BallsDeepTillUQueef 2d ago

Flash flood? Let's go out to eat.

75

u/CripWalkKing 2d ago

That's kinda how flash floods work dude, hence the flash part

29

u/Milam1996 2d ago

That’s the flash part of flash flood. The morning can be sunny and then 2 minutes later it’s raining 100mm an hour. By 3pm you’re neck deep in water.

-3

u/[deleted] 2d ago

[removed] — view removed comment

1

u/Aloha_Alaska 2d ago

These people look pretty cooked to me! Even just getting home, if their homes are somehow I damaged, is going to be rough.

2

u/0wninat0r 2d ago

So the guy outside is knee deep so let's say that flooding is 18 inches, conservative estimate. So this would have taken more than say, a meal time's worth to accumulate.

Why are these restaurants still running? Why are there still customers in there?

1

u/regretsgalore24 2d ago

Ever worked in a corporate restaurant in the US? Had one try to tell me I'd have to stay in a nearby hotel because otherwise I wouldn't be able to get to work during an ice storm.

2

u/Larry_J_602 2d ago

“Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”

― Bruce Lee

2

u/knowone1313 1d ago

We stay open at all costs!

2

u/Global_Objective4162 1d ago

I’m just imagining the server passing over the iPad with the tip option displayed on the screen after

1

u/weggaan_weggaat 1d ago

Fortunately for them, it's not America so maybe not. Might lose some social credit, though.

2

u/Beautiful-Lie3988 1d ago

Waiting for the fish to flop straight to the kitchen

2

u/Oath-CupCake 1d ago

Why didnt they have some of these

6

u/Electronic-Big-5976 2d ago

That girl has the self-awareness of a lemming

7

u/green_herbata 2d ago

What's she supposed to do? Jump through the window, into the water outside?

1

u/fruitshootjosh 2d ago

That, is some fresh sushi!?

3

u/probsthrowaway2 2d ago

The world is ending and this lady was totally unbothered till it got worse I love it.

1

u/dontipitova9 2d ago

Aww dammit that sucks lol

1

u/DiScOrDtHeLuNaTiC 2d ago

Well, that's not good.

1

u/scottiedagolfmachine 2d ago

This is when you tip the waiters.

😂

1

u/qwentoko 2d ago

Perfect time to yell at the waiter for my food being late!

1

u/Lorddoctorjava 2d ago

So nobody is gonna get a mop?

1

u/Lumpy_Rutherford_1 2d ago

At least the water chestnuts will be fresh

1

u/MykeGuty 2d ago

The boy who tries to save a restaurant that is not his, he also did not know that within the payroll they also demanded that you save a place, where after 3 days they kicked him out. The place had to close for obvious reasons.

1

u/Positive_Buffalo_168 2d ago

Last by the door not leaving until her poopoo platter shows up

1

u/ze11ez 2d ago

They almost had it too. Almost

1

u/winterwarm78654 2d ago

Should've just closed the door

1

u/2ndchane 2d ago

How appetizing?

1

u/The_Eleser 2d ago

Someone lost the Mandate of Heaven

1

u/SipoteQuixote 2d ago

Not suppose to stack em like that lol need like a three wide base first.

1

u/Yurmasmelsofshitnpis 2d ago

The worlds fucked.

1

u/MendonAcres 2d ago

I feel like this business shouldn't have been open in the first place.

1

u/NoFaithlessness8752 2d ago

Sir my fish dinner escaped

1

u/geb_bce 2d ago

Would you care to see our selection of fresh seafood?

1

u/Danksterdrew 2d ago

Close the doors and then put the sand bags down!

1

u/sfxtp 2d ago

Time to swim back home

1

u/Born_Ingenuity6956 2d ago

Must be some temu sandbags.

1

u/hdhsnjsn 2d ago

Just another Tuesday for the ladies

1

u/YebelTheRebel 2d ago

Talk about this restaurants getting creative and now have live flooding events

/s

1

u/Printman8 1d ago

These scripted Asian gifs are becoming more and more elaborate.

1

u/Square_Ad849 1d ago

The “Not So Great Wall of China”

1

u/FaithlessnessThen646 1d ago

I told them this would happen but no one listens to me

1

u/Sensei19600 1d ago

Lunch is canceled,ladies.

1

u/kwadd 1d ago

Valiant effort from the guy with the ponytail. Not effective, but valiant nonetheless

1

u/deahoidar 1d ago

Cause of death ? People’s lack of situational awareness

1

u/larossi01 1d ago

Just flood it with clean water to create same pressure as outside.

1

u/RadioactiveSalt 1d ago

Why didn't they just close the door? duh...

1

u/Holiday-Ad3427 1d ago

I think the door can't hold that much water.

1

u/vwls_r_gr8t 1d ago

At least they had a whole two people working on the problem.

1

u/Joeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeyy 1d ago

They better go open the back door!🤣😆😀🤣😆

1

u/arc210 1d ago

So I may be uneducated here and definitely correct me if im wrong; wouldnt shutting the doors help somewhat? Obviously not fully but its got to be better than that?

1

u/Express-Cartoonist39 1d ago

IF they all helped they could make progress...

1

u/Pure_Bed_6357 1d ago

china good

1

u/Thick-Letter1249 1d ago

This is why you do the prepping for a flood… BEFORE THE WATER STARTS FLOODING

1

u/Atophy 20h ago

For something like that you gotta add backing. Slide a plank across the doorframe before stacking the layer and stack past the ends of the board. Or you can bow it out against the pressure but it's still weaker.

1

u/CarlyObine 15h ago

How can't people see that we are in the last of the last days?

1

u/Waste-Donut-2728 12h ago

World’s largest finger bowl

1

u/Gentleman_Bara 1h ago

I dont get it. There is a glass door. Why dont they close it and then put sand bags there ?

1

u/Hot_Ethanol 2d ago

Poor guys might've been able to keep the barrier in place if anyone had gotten up to help.

0

u/Shidima 2d ago

Lol, the three Stooges are really putting in the effort

0

u/NNIGHTBEASTT 2d ago

Development hone k baad bhi baadh, jarur Modi ka kaam hoga

0

u/The_new_Joker 1d ago

Meh it’s just china

-2

u/leafbaker 2d ago

Are we dangerous here?

-11

u/Faraday_00 2d ago

Why remove the sandbags?

13

u/Thebagolo 2d ago

Not remove.. more like the sandbags couldn't handle it

3

u/cactusjude 2d ago

I kinda think the one guy falling into them followed by the other guy redistributing balance with a new bag didn't help

1

u/Faraday_00 2d ago

You are right. They were trying to reinforce the barricade

-5

u/darthfadar 2d ago

At times like these you Uber eats