The events of hurricane Sandy made me think that it would be useful to have a heavy duty plastic bag I could wrap my car in.

It would be double-sealed such that little or no water could leak in. In the event of a major flood event, you just drive your car onto the bag and seal it up. Your car stays nice and dry until the waters recede.

Such a bag could be probably be sold for about $100.00, which is obviously much cheaper than replacing the entire vehicle.
-- mzellers, Oct 30 2012

Injury reported with prototype testing http://www.google.c...,i:170&tx=115&ty=86
[normzone, Oct 31 2012]

This would probably work. http://undergroundb...ortableshelters.htm
Enourmous freezer bag for storing paranoid people. [DIYMatt, Oct 31 2012]

A vehicle will float in as little as seven inches of water (depth on the frame/body, not the tires). It will wash away in as little as two inches of flowing water (total).

So your car might stay dry, but unless it was parked in a garage or similarly restricted, it might go visiting Lord Buchanan.
-- MechE, Oct 31 2012


The bag vacuum-seals after you exit, and the bottom is lined with ten tons of shot.
-- Alterother, Oct 31 2012


Floating and dry is still better than floating and wet (or sunk).
-- AusCan531, Oct 31 2012


Well, the $100 is short of the mark, but it's a great idea. Drive into it and inflate / seal it, one time use. Tether it to something not too scary.
-- normzone, Oct 31 2012


How about one of your ideas? They never go anywhere …
-- 8th of 7, Oct 31 2012


//sold cheaply, printed on rice paper,// Haven't had food in days... so hungry! but I can't eat this insurance policy because I'll lose my claim...
-- phundug, Oct 31 2012


It shouldn't be too much more expensive to tether the bag by cable to a concrete-embedded anchor. [+]
-- Voice, Oct 31 2012


This is a great idea. As far as the floating issue, just chain it so something.

If the car and whatever it was chained to floats away, move to California.*

*(Please don't move to California.)
-- doctorremulac3, Oct 31 2012


I second that - it's difficult enough already to find a parking place to unroll my Bag-loon in. And I have seen evidence of injuries in prototype testing (link).
-- normzone, Oct 31 2012


See my link. If you had one of those with a reenforced floor you could pop it up, drive your car in, and seal up the door. It's been voted "product most likely to cause death by suffocation" ten years in a row!
-- DIYMatt, Oct 31 2012


+ OK, now how about one for the house?
-- xandram, Oct 31 2012



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