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LOL, good one.
Hint, tie a decoy rope on a little rubber ducky like that, throw out with the other regular decoys in the dark.........wait for all the WTF's from the other guys come...

2d I see your point, and I think that necessity was behind most of this, the need to protect your self, from what I was reading.
Too bad it comes to that, but I guess it does.

Water was up to the...

I think that's just human nature.
When we had the flood in town, not a big deal, as mostly basements were flooded, the whole neighborhood was out helping each other.

The same after a big snow...