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In August 2017, as a devastating hurricane hit Texas, a photograph taken the previous year of a Texas home that survived flooding through the use of a dam was recirculated online, along with the claim that the pictured dam was inflatable: The timing of the posts caused some viewers to wonder whether the photograph showed flooding caused by Hurricane Harvey, which made landfall in late August 2017: This picture was actually taken in June 2016 (more than a year before Hurricane Harvey), after thousands of homes were evacuated in Brazoria County, Texas, due to a severe flood. In an attempt to protect his home, local resident Randy Wagner purchased an Aqua Dam and installed it around his property, as a local television station reported at the time: The product in question is not inflatable in the sense that it is filled with air; rather, the AquaDam encloses water: Here's a video report from USA Today about Wagner and his house-saving AquaDam:
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