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Califbill

Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 2/9/2016 3:46 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 10:22:06 -0800, Califbill billnews wrote:

wrote:
On Tue, 09 Feb 2016 08:22:56 -0500, John H.
wrote:

On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 08:17:42 -0500, Justan Olphart wrote:

On 2/9/2016 7:56 AM, John H. wrote:
On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 20:18:17 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:

4th cliff area in Humarock this morning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P35pFBfA2c&feature=youtu.be

For others, "Humarock" is a section of Situate, MA on a peninsula
with the ocean on one side and the "South River" on the other.
8 miles north from my house.

Damn, not pretty at all.
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It's been worse.

It sure shows the value of building on stilts. In the outer banks of NC,
Nags Head area, I've seen
lots of houses where the stilts are enclosed, making storage area,
garage, etc. It would seem like
this would put an extra burden on the stilts when weather like that hit.

The walls are supposed to be designed so they blow out. There is a lot
of abuse to that FEMA rule about no habitable space below the
"finished floor". I see houses all the time that are using that
utility space as part of the home. The trend these days, as soon as
you get off the beach is to fill the lot up several feet and build on
a stem wall to get to FEMA. The community that Judy built had over 4
feet of fill and they still built on a 5 block stem wall.

If it has to be built on stilts or a stem wall to avoid flooding, there
should be no FEMA involved, or government subsidies.

I would be OK with it if FEMA and the states just followed the
existing rules. Allowing them to rebuild New Orleans without building
14ASL was criminal and will pick the pockets of the tax payer the next
time they have a storm. I certainly will not feel sorry for them.
I feel the same way about all of these people below the FEMA elevation
based on their datum plane.

No I do not have flood nor will I be looking for the government to
help me if I do have trouble. It is unlikely because this place has
not flooded in recorded history ... over 120 years.

You sound like me back in 2001 when we bought two places in Florida. I
did some research first and discovered that Jupiter, FL
had not had a direct hurricane hit in 100 years. Realizing how large
the coastline of Florida is, and the remote chances of a direct or even
close hit, I felt pretty safe.

Bought the houses and got wacked with three hurricanes in a little over
one year. Charlie, Francis and Wilma. :-)

California, no basement, and we do have water springs, but my back neighbor
is a 7' retaining wall below me. Closest we had to a flood, other than a
defective toilet, was when they built the subdivision up the hill from us
30 years ago. Big rains, and the gutters were overflowing. Did flood the
senior housing at the bottom of the hills.