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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.
Many of the older houses here such as mine are brick, and are built much better than the plywood particle board cheap crap houses built today. Most of the older houses or high end houses are built of brick, and will withstand hurricane force winds and storm surge.
I was asking a coworker today who has lived his whole life here, if we would be okay where we are at. He asked how old my house was. I told him, he said you will be fine. It is built better than the houses built today...lol
You do have to be careful that a Brick house is really brick and not a wood stick house with a brick veneer. If Der Adler's is really old it is not a problem but there were a lot of house and condos built with decorative brick walls. one layer of brick with long nails/studs sticking out of the wooden wall for the bricks to be layed around and mortared in place. We had a car hit a condo building with such a "wall" and about eight feet of brick peeled off the wall and fell on the car. Looking up at the next 15 feet or so brick (3 story building) hanging on the wall with those little nails didn't make us feel too good
A true brick wall should have a "half" brick every so often. That is because a true brick wall was double thick and the "half" bricks were actually a full length brick turned sideways to go into the other "layer" and tie them together, providing more integrity than just mortar.
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Ouch, very sorry to hear that, hope it turns around for you soon!Health issues not improving.
My condolences to the family. More and more, "news" people are becoming scum of the Earth. Even lower than politicians, used car salesmen, lawyers, and tel-evangelists.