#05 Flooding season! Our tiny house is too close!

[@ElizabeteRodrigues-nh7pr]

WELCOME TO PORTUGAL. SO BEAUTIFUL YOUR LAND, AND THE RIVER YOU GUYS ARE SO LUCKY , YOU ARE BEEN BLESSED 😇. GOD BLESS YOU FUTURE HOME AND LAND. AND PLEASE MAKE VIDEOS SOONNNNN. SO SO FAR AWAY. HUGS FROM USA 🇺🇸

[@TomBarman]

In my humble opinion, you are in one of the best parts of Portugal. It can be quite humid in the winter, but it makes up for it the rest of the year because you won’t have problems with droughts and fires. At the same time, you are close to some very beautiful areas of Portugal, as well as Galicia. You are near Melgaço, Ponte de Lima, Arcos de Valdevez, and Ponte da Barca, where you can eat very well and there is a lot to explore (you can explore the Vez walkways towards Sistelo). If you need to go to a big city, Braga is not very close, but it’s not too far either. Enjoy!

[@HappyQuinta]

Ahhh yes yes - we're still exploring the area, but you're right! Whenever we take the car for a short ride around here, it's sooo nice! Took notes of the places! Thanks for sharing!

[@ivoembarros]

O mais certo é estarem em zona de cheia do rio. Provavelmente vão acabar por ter problemas.

[@HappyQuinta]

Exato! Vamos ter que mudar a tiny house do local e fazer alguns ajustes - no verão funciona bem, mas não estamos seguros na época de cheia.

[@ElizabeteRodrigues-nh7pr]

AND ALSO WANT TO SAY MAYBY ITS BETTER TO MOVE THE HOUSE 🏠 FAR FROM THE RIVER, IT WILL BE MORE SAVE OR IF NOT BUILD A TALL WALL LIKE A OVAL SHAPE IN FRONT OF THE HOUSE TO STOP THE WATTER TO REACH THE HOUSE.

[@HappyQuinta]

Totally! We're soon moving the tiny house to another location and in a year move permanently to the main house, once finished.

[@benediktheudorfer6334]

Hydrologist here. The tiny house will be flooded sooner or later 100%. You sit in the middle of the flood plain. It's a FLOOD PLAIN. You may be able to guess why it is called like that. The ancient house is up the hillside for a reason. Check the flood statistics for the Rio Mouro, they should be publicly available if there is a river gauge (just checked, there should be one near Segude, but can't find details without portuguese skills). There you can find flood height probabilities, then measure how high you are above normal flow water line to see what your annual probability is of getting washed away. Looks like you are not more than 2 meters above the normal flow line. I'm not familiar with the climate or flooding regime in the region, but so i can't tell how frequently it will be flooded. I might be wrong, but looks like a very dangerous situation.

[@benediktheudorfer6334]

You can also spot recurring flooding levels in the landscape. E.g. right below your tiny house is no grass. That means this place is flooded very regularly (at least annually). You basically directly sit on river bed gravel. Or see if you can spot some kind of natural terrasse shape in the landscape, and realize that the area below the terrasse is frequent flooding area. It's kind of hard to tell from the video, but it might be at the bottom of the hillslope, where the bushes start behind your tiny home (minute 6:18)?

[@HappyQuinta]

Thanks a looooot for the tips! Yes, we're moving things around here to make it sure the tiny house is safe! You're correct about the bed gravel and the flooding area - we didn't know before coming here and talking with some locals.

[@HappyQuinta]

The area at 6:18 is not very close to the tiny house, in another area of the land.