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Urbane Guerrilla · 09-05-2005, 11:59 PM

Look for them to rebuild on pretty much the same site, maybe just maybe with grade improvements, though probably not over all the flooded area, and perhaps more autonomous pumping stations with either their own power or power supplies designed to be uninterruptible by water.

Houses on stilts tend to be in places that aren't prone to hurricane or typhoon, so I'm not sure how that would work out. Go stilting the buildings in the Mississippi Delta and you'd have to design them to resist high wind as well as high water. I end up thinking welded structural steel.

09-05-2005, 11:59 PM	#7
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	Look for them to rebuild on pretty much the same site, maybe just maybe with grade improvements, though probably not over all the flooded area, and perhaps more autonomous pumping stations with either their own power or power supplies designed to be uninterruptible by water. Houses on stilts tend to be in places that aren't prone to hurricane or typhoon, so I'm not sure how that would work out. Go stilting the buildings in the Mississippi Delta and you'd have to design them to resist high wind as well as high water. I end up thinking welded structural steel. __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.