When the levee breaks, mama you got to move!
This reminds me of the guy in Pacific Palisades who bought a $400 Harbor Freight trash pump and some hose and used it and his swimming pool to save his house from wildfire.
Self-reliance.
Did he have a license to do that? Who said he could save his house? The city never signed off on that. Now, they'll require him to burn his own house down so he'd be equal with his (unprepared and unresourceful) neighbors.