If there is a acknowledgement that what you are building is in a natural flood zone, why not build according to the environmental conditions of the area?
There must be homes designs that don’t look like the typical “American dream” single family home.
This would work for areas that flood gradually. The flooding that happened had fast moving water. And water of that volume moving that fast is like an unstoppable force. I would trust that structure to hold up.
A house that looked almost exactly like this was swept away by the flood. It was an incredibly sad story (the family described the event in great detail). The family probably did everything they could’ve done. At a certain point the government NEEDS to intervene. A family can’t reasonably do their own weather analysis, flood plane analysis, or build and maintain their own alert system.
I disagree (the government should offer the service to those that want it) families should be able to overbuild their house to the point that it resists almost all flooding by making it out of large enough I beams or steel pipe.
probably would be too expensive, and cost prohibitive, and even if they make that kind of house flooding can be severe enough where it can still destroy a house.
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If there is a acknowledgement that what you are building is in a natural flood zone, why not build according to the environmental conditions of the area?
There must be homes designs that don’t look like the typical “American dream” single family home.
Something on stilts comes to mind.
This would work for areas that flood gradually. The flooding that happened had fast moving water. And water of that volume moving that fast is like an unstoppable force. I would trust that structure to hold up.
A house that looked almost exactly like this was swept away by the flood. It was an incredibly sad story (the family described the event in great detail). The family probably did everything they could’ve done. At a certain point the government NEEDS to intervene. A family can’t reasonably do their own weather analysis, flood plane analysis, or build and maintain their own alert system.
I disagree (the government should offer the service to those that want it) families should be able to overbuild their house to the point that it resists almost all flooding by making it out of large enough I beams or steel pipe.
probably would be too expensive, and cost prohibitive, and even if they make that kind of house flooding can be severe enough where it can still destroy a house.