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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

This Old House last week was at the Jersey Shore where blocks of houses were destroyed. They were talking to all these people who were rebuilding but the main floor was raised 10 ft so they'll "never have to worry again".

One friend is planning a reconstruction. FEMA maps suddenly suggested he may have to add one or two cinder blocks to the foundation.

In Ocean City NJ, some homes were temporarily sbout 15 feet this summer so that a new foundation can be constructed underneath. One house just down the street from another friend was raised so that five cinder blocks (almost four feet) were added to that foundation. Many new businesses are now advertising house razing.

As for blocks of damage, only place I saw anywhere near that much damage is Mantoloking. Where a street leaving that barrier island was only about two feet above high tide. Where maybe 20 miles of Barnegat Bay needed a new inlet to drain the entire northern half of that bay, the Metedeconk River and other inland tributaries. And where McMansion owners are fighting Gov Christie's demand for building sand dunes.

They want their expensive homes as close as possible to the ocean. Then want you to sympathize when their McMansions are damaged by a near zero hurricane.

[xoxoxoBruce]

They had aerial footage of lots of destroyed homes, and testimony from homeowners who returned to find their houses not where they were... or gone.

The three they are focusing on the rebuild, in Bay Head, Point Pleasant, and Manasquan, were flooded but not destroyed. Hey their show is about rehabbing old houses, not building new.

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Plenty of tropical storms. But they keep going in the wrong direction. Another one would rather head for England. Tropical Storm Melissa just formed in the Atlantic east of Bermuda. Hurricane season has 12 more days.