I hope they compensate you for the stolen water and any damage from the helicopter. Where I live, that water probably would cost $25 a bucket or more, and thousands to refill the pool. Of course, that far cheaper than your house burning down, but still...

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ok MY BAD i used cf (cubic feet) instead of ccf (100 cubic feet) to calculate the amount so its 1/100th the amount which would be about $0.32 OOPS! Thats an embarrassing mistake.


Its a 125 gallon bucket and in my neck of the woods that would cost about $32.00 a pop.

Reminds me of a hummingbird.

That some serious control of that machine.

Ouch! Was that your pool, or your neighbors?
Either way, I agree, excellent control by the pilot. Those guys are the shiznit.

It was neither, but after your comment I felt the need to figure out how much it would actually cost if it had happened to be my pool.

holy crap I had no idea water could be that expensive... we pump the crap out of the ground

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ok I totally fucked the number i used cf instead of ccf to calculate the amoont so its 1/100th the amount which would be about $41.00 OOPS!


Just for fun i figured it would cost me about $4100 to fill an average swimming pool.

Depends where you live, filling a pool in the desert is expensive, if you live in the Canadian wilderness, it's probably dirt cheap.

He's better at getting a heli into courtyard that Navy Seals.

As a portuguese, I can say firefighters are pretty well respected and looked up to over here (as in most countries I suspect). If a firefighter or a group of them, come knocking on your door because they need the water in your pool, you should be nothing but grateful, because that means the fire is pretty close. They should have to pay nothing, because they are placing their lives on the line to protect your stuff.

san francisco water rates...
$34.00 for 1.5" pipe service, and the first 2,244 gallons
$5.50 for every 748 gallons afterwards

The price of water is never something I've even had to think about, really ( I live off lake Michigan). It just's small change on top of other various bills (well... $1.68 per 768 gallons, but since I don't water my lawn or own a swimming pool, it hardly ever amounts to much). What goes around comes around in the winter time though when it comes time to run the heater.

Thanks for that head check. Made me go recheck my numbers and WOW was I off. We pay around $2.30 per ccf. I had calculated per cf. OOPS! Only off by 1/100th

I know where I live, we pay a flat water usage rate - but two years ago they also added to that flat rate, a cubed usage rate - so now we pay twice for the same water.

The price of water is mostly for sewage and treatment of waste water. When you fill up a pool, you call the water company and tell them as such, and that it is not going down the drain. They then ignore that water amount on your bill, or discount it greatly.

Um, I'm sorry, but if some helicopter comes flying by and stealing my pool water, I'm going to, well, laugh hysterically and be grateful I could help out the firefighters. Hell, I might even turn on the hose so I could keep the pool full for them.

-I'd go get some friends from down the street over for a pool-party and get my naked-on and see if I could get the evening news-chopper up there!!

Was this at your house? The video is on LiveLeak now!!
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For me the cost of water is the cost of electricity to run the pumps and all the water goes back into the ground except for evaporation.

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Adding video to channels (Skillful) - requested by Deano.

Why does it look like it's leaking water as it's being flown away? I understand the outside would drip some water... but it looks like the dripping isn't slowing...