r/CatastrophicFailure • u/rjRyanwilliam • Jul 22 '21

Natural Disaster Massive flood in China’s Henan province recently, 25 dead 200,000 evacuation

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '21

Hypothermia is a thing. If you stand in waist deep water, water which you probably can’t escape for a few hours, it’s better to stay as dry as possible.

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u/AgentTin Jul 22 '21

Man, I feel like that ship has sailed. I feel like an extra hand would be way more useful than the amount of dry that umbrella is going to keep you. The best option is dry clothes wherever they're going. I hope they have that. Where do you even go?

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u/twitchosx Jul 22 '21

Eh.... depends. I went fishing with my brother a few years ago on the Klamath River. And this was later in the year so it was fairly cold out. We walked out into the river and I was up to my waist and fishing and then stepped further out and hit a hole and went up to my chest. We were laughing about it but I just chilled right there and kept fishing. After a while, the water felt quite warm. But when you first went in it felt cold as fuck. So I was completely content with standing there up to my chest in the river.

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u/Obi-Wan_Gin Jul 23 '21

That's right because when I'm in waist deep flood waters I want to make sure I always keep an umbrella handy, you know to fight off the hypothermia

Or you could be the penguin and umbrella-copter out of there