vikingBerserker
Lieutenant General
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Ow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That post makes my thumb ache.I ether severly strained my right thumb right at the joint that it goes into the hand without me even ralizing it or the Gout that usually just affects my feed and knees has spread to the thumb nuckle!
Looking at the pictures from the latest hurricanes, can building codes be improved to minimise the damage?Soon to be Hurricane Nate...
Looking at the pictures from the latest hurricanes, can building codes be improved to minimise the damage?
I was thinking of something like houses built with a structure like a 20ft container as a basement, so a family can keep their possessions safe. A hurricane isn't an earthquake you get some warning. Or something like a concrete warehouse for cars so they could be hunkered down instead of being wiped out.In America where houses are built out of particle board and plywood?
Yeah it can be improved...lol
Believe it or not SR where I worked in Saudi Arabia (outside of Dammam) if you dig down three feet you hit water too, they hit it trying to put in a concrete base for a new Charpy machine. What I meant is more use of engineering, use of concrete etc. Basically an attitude of that accepts hurricanes happen as a norm not that they are freak events.Trouble is in a lot of hurricane "country" (Florida, Carolinas, Alabama and whole gulf coast) if you dig down 3-6 feet you hit water.
Modern beach houses are built on stilts
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I was thinking of something like houses built with a structure like a 20ft container as a basement, so a family can keep their possessions safe. A hurricane isn't an earthquake you get some warning. Or something like a concrete warehouse for cars so they could be hunkered down instead of being wiped out.