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If your house is in a flood zone, you can rebuild after each weather catastrophe, or you can build on stilts which may not be tall or sturdy enough, but I have a better idea. Build your house on a floating pad moored to stakes driven deep into the ground with the utilities connected by flexible cables
and hoses, then let the weather do whatever it wants.
2007 news article
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/6405359.stm
// They have a hollow concrete cube at the base to give them buoyancy. A vertical pile keeps them anchored to the land. Electricity and water are pumped in through flexible pipes...// [pocmloc, Nov 11 2025]
2005 HB idea
Houses on lifts
[pocmloc, Nov 11 2025]
Floating Your Mobile Home
//I remember reading about a wonderful design of a house (this was about 20 years ago) designed to float in a flood. There were rings on each corner with what were basically telegraph poles through them, so that as the water rose, so did the house. Power, water, gas etc was on flexible piping that also moved with the house.// — gtoal, May 23 2007 [pocmloc, Nov 11 2025]
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I have thought about this before, and I like it; basically a beached houseboat, with added hoses. [+] |
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Of course, where I live, it'll almost certainly be a fire, not a flood, but there's also a small chance of lethal winds. |
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You are not the only one to have thought about this before [pert]. The BBC reported on a development designed just like this eighteen years ago. |
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Though I am now curious about the truly radical element of this Dutch design; I would like to know more about how the electricity is pumped in through flexible pipes. |
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Someone did a Grand Designs like this too. Definitely feasible. |
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I swear to God my wife and I had a deal on a property we backed out on based on nothing more than ... this doesn't feel right, and then it went through it's twice in a row "once in a century" river flooding, and I had envisioned building floating cabins which could slide up and down pilings as needed. |
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This is needed in many areas... and those areas are about to increase in size... not because of human made climate change... but because of perfectly natural causes. |
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This world doesn't just rotate, it also inverts end for end every so many eons and climate change is a result... not just a cash grab. |
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Anybody thought about moving the hell out of the flood zone? I live in a hurricane zone so I can't do anything but harden up or move. Luckily the threat is intermittent and manageable (mostly), and the measures are manageable and not too costly.
But houseboats as big as the McMansions on N. Carolina's shores are not feasible. Floating up on columns does not take into consideration the "push" of the oncoming surge or flood; huge houseboat, huge windage, huge push, huge pile downstream. |
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