h a l f b a k e r yI think this would be a great thing to not do.
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To plan for global warming, houses could use rail tracks as foundations with each house sitting on a rail-car. As the sea-water inevitably rises, the houses can be moved up the side of the hill.
In case of gradient differences, worm gear jacks can re-level the properties dynamically. Plumbing is handled
at the end of the house train with flexible hoses connecting each car.
Also if an entire street goes for it, the railway can be used as an energy store - exercise bike your way up the hill.
Plus points:
Tsunami mode can rapidly move the houses away from danger.
Take your house on holiday (if your community will spring for a siding).
A new garden every once in a while.
A must.
Garden_20Swing_20Wheeler
[2 fries shy of a happy meal, Jan 14 2009]
Vernicular Railways
http://www.google.c...rnicular+railway%22
For a word that doesn't exist, there's a lot of them. [bigsleep, Jan 15 2009]
Moving the Cape Hatteras lighthouse
http://www.labs.net...elise/lhse/lhse.htm
Rails, hydraulic jacks - it's all here. Except of course they took it all away afterwards. [wagster, Jan 16 2009]
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If there is some place higher up that the houses can get to, why not build there, already? |
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I thought "verMicular", and imagined houses built in long burrows, either off to one side or with rooms arranged in series. As it happens, this isn't that dissimilar because they are on rails and they could be trains.
I also thought of vernacular architecture.
It could be pedal-powered. |
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[admin: renamed idea following UB's analysis; let us know what you really meant if it's different.] |
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Vehicular would work too. |
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I actually found the other funicular reference and naming argument on the HB before posting. Odd that a mis-hearing of a word could spread so much. Either that, or the human brain translates the 'Fu' to 'Ver' by mashing the word and the verticalness of it all. |
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"Excuse me, while I kiss this guy." |
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I was really hoping that there had been a [Vernon] reference buried in there somewhere. |
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I don't think vernonicular is a word either. |
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No, [UB], it's the singers and writers who've got the words wrong. My version is always definitively inaccurate.
And "vernoncular" is a perfectly cromulent word. |
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/If there is some place higher up that the houses can get to, why not build there, already?/ |
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currently there is no ocean view there. |
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This is already done in my town (Kenai, Alaska). Not with railroad tracks but by building small structures on skids and dragging them back every few years. Including some guest cabins. |
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The cause is bluff erosion, which is a combination (here) of rising sea levels and some geologic catch-up from the last ice age. The result that land on the edge of Cook Inlet erodes about 1-2 feet (.3-.6 m) per year. In the last 10 years, I've lost about 20 feet off my land. That's why I built 200 feet back, but the best views are closer to the edge. |
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