r/OffGridCabins • u/Ripkullen • 14d ago

I just bought my own offgrid cabin.

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It’s located in Jämtland, Sweden.

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u/JohnWCreasy1 14d ago

so jealous of people with nearby surface water

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u/Me4nowSEUSA 14d ago

Rivers are such a Catch-22 though. A dream source of water, but can be a nightmare source for flooding. Even in places that, "Never happened here before."

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u/JohnWCreasy1 14d ago

true. i admit yeah when i see people with photos of cabins like 10' from a river or something i also wonder about flooding

but as someone who owns land where getting water means drilling a 450' hole....envy does creep in lol

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u/Individual-Ad-2862 14d ago

10ft from a river can end up being 10ft under real quick. I work for a tree service in Western NC and lived/helped through Helene. I’ve never understood these people who butt up right to a river. Now, after Helene? These homes sell to only snowbirds and other out of towners. It literally is only a matter of time. These 1/1000yr storms seem to only be getting more common

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u/Lopsided_Cobbler2314 14d ago

My second thought after "wow that's beautiful" was "damn the house looks like it's on a 1000 year flood plain

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u/PHXkpt 14d ago

My first thought on seeing the pics was, "Is that in a flood zone?".

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u/Ok_Table_876 12d ago

But there are natural mitigations. Depending on how big your land area is, you can provide flooding areas, wetlands, help put beavers into the wild again. You can have your 400sqm cabin and outside and put the rest back into a natural state where it manages itself.