If a journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step,Watch The Fearless Online a journey of saving your flooded street should start with a single bucket, right?

That was the thinking of one Florida person who tried to save his street from the perils of flooding. He looked at a very flooded street, and decided to empty it out with a bucket, growing more and more upset at how little his efforts seemed to matter.

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Across the street, a passionate neighbor caught it all in a series of Snapchat videos. The documentation contains quite the story arc, from a stalwart hero, to dark night of the soul, to a very modern cliffhanger ending.

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After a couple of attempts, the Florida hero gets tired. All he can do is stare at the water and think, "I'm gonna need a lot more buckets."

Eventually, he gave up and returned home. It seems he and his buckets were no match against an entire flooded street. But the photographer knows he is still there, looking out at the water. What will happen next?

To anyone wondering how to clear a flooded street, do not follow this bucket boy's logic.

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