(August 31, 2017 at 2:03 pm)mlmooney89 Wrote:(August 31, 2017 at 12:02 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: We had a "100 year flood" of the Meramac River back in '08. Only a railroad line kept it out of my back yard, ~7,000 feet from the usual banks of the river. When it was over FEMA paid to jack up all the houses by ten feet. This was chosen because the waters would cross the tracks at eight feet.
I wonder how much it would cost to jack up all those houses.
Most houses in Texas are wooden structures. Six feet of water will force itself through them readily.
To be fair a very large amount of houses on the Texas coast ARE jacked up to second floor level.
Most coastal buildings are nationwide. But even with that we don't even have in California outside big businesses the same universal earthquake codes Japan has.
It isn't enough simply to have a house on stilts. The building itself house our business needs to be both wind and flood resistant.