At 08:51 AM 9/28/05 +0200, romdom wrote: >yes but ....... what about all these areas where people have to do with >tornadoes and regularly rebuild their houses ?...what of those who must >suffer blizzards in the north ? ....... i have the feeling a very large >part of the US would have no population if one was to build in safe areas >only ...
When I was in high school, my mother worked at Wabash Valley Sanitarium. From Lafayette out to the hospital was a very nice drive: you had the Wabash on your right, and all the homes and businesses on the left had a lot of landscaping between themselves and the road, because they wanted to be well up the hill. When Mom took the job, she understood that whenever the spring was rainier than usual, she would pack a bag, a National Guard truck would take her to work, and she would stay there until the water went down again. One summer I took a job as receptionist and went to work with her. On the way to work -- it couldn't be. But as the days went by, it became plain that it *was*: somebody was building a house on the *right* side of the road. That's right, he was building a house *in* the river -- several feet lower than the road. The following spring, he got his carpet wet. So he jacked up the house and put *one* more round of concrete blocks on his foundation. Time was, people who built houses in rivers and lakes built them on *stilts*. ------------------------- Rebuilding from tornadoes is far from regular. Even in Tornado Alley, getting burned out is much more common. On the other hand, when we used to go to New York, Dave and I sometimes stopped at a motel where I could walk to a beach on Lake Erie. On the beaches of Lake Erie, storms that blow or wash away buildings are, if not exactly regular, not too surprising. As I looked around, I noticed that every last beach house that wasn't very, very cheap had wheels under it. -- Joy Beeson http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ http://home.earthlink.net/~dbeeson594/ROUGHSEW/ROUGH.HTM http://home.earthlink.net/~beeson_n3f/ http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
