building stick homes in hurricanes area's is just asking for it. reinforced concrete is the only way to go. my insurance agent told me Farmers and most companies refuses to write polities on homes in the gulf area's.

I think that would be the States job to ensure that. Look at what is happening in Florida. Federal regulations for housing on coast, I could see that making it real affordable. How about the idiots just evacuating when told to?

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ABoyNamedSue - Speaking of Crestwoods posts - And then there'll be some link to some page, written in hindu or something, talking about sherpas and A&W root beer, and how George Bush is to blame for some Jewish neo-nazi death camp, run by Elvis Presley, on the far side of the moon that's been busted for killing kittens or something

I remembered way back when Florida got hit by hurricanes couple of times in a year. All we can hear is to REBUILD the city, the town with government aids. Then again they build the same kind of wood framed houses, which cannot protect people from hurricane disaster again and again. Money are wasted, people are killed, structure are damaged, houses are destroyed ... hurricane after hurricane. Our lumber industry is so powerful; they can actually lobby our state and federal government not to set up a strong building code to protect people from hurricane disasters.

How many American people will actually study the prevention of hurricane from other countries and learn the lesson. We trust our government to protect us, our government has not yet come up a strong building code to help people understand that there is a way to protect your life and property when Hurricane hits.

Our media is not reporting, Our government is not responding, Housing industry won't volunteer to tell, Lumber industry wants you to live comfortable in a wooden framed house... Somebody in our government need to take a look and realize that we need to do something to prevent natural disasters, we can't just pray to the Lord every time when we see a storm approaching us on the map.

You know what? I don't give a rat's patootie if it is "affordable" to build on the coast. Waterfront property in florida right now is exhorbitant. People who build on it should have to sign a buyer beware statement. If their home isn't built up to hurricane standards, they are idiots, and they should not be covered with federal insurance. if they lose their home, well, that's the pricetag for being f'ing stupid.

As far as evacuations go, that's a whole different story. what JC is referring to is the cost of bailing out property owners after millions (billions!) of damages from hurricanes.

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Job 13:5 (New International Version)
If only you would be altogether silent! For you, that would be wisdom.

The traditional Japanese house is known for its attitude toward aesthetics, balance, harmony, economy and beauty. Becuase the natural disaster from Typhoon, Started in the early 50's, Japanese government set up a very restric building code for all Japanese new houses especailly those along the coastal area. The japanese people complied with the government's building code, they gave up their beloved raditional wood framed houses and start building a stronger, safer houses to avoid Typhoon disasters.

If you are interested, you can google Typhoon damages along Japan region for the past 60 years and you can easily find out that there are much less and less destructions casued by Typhoon damamge in coastal Japan. Simply because the japanese accept the battle with natural, Only the strong survive.

Even though RC concrete structure sounds like very uncomfortable to live in, however Japanese turn more into it's interior design rather than exterior. We are live in a modern world, 5 millions ago our ancestor taught us how to bhuild a safer house to avoid disaster, somehow what forgot the basic foundation of building a house and that is to make is SAFE.

If people want to build concrete houses, let them pay for it. If people want to build wooden houses, let them suffer the consequences.

I think your example here is ironic because the wooden house in Japan was developed to be as lightweight as possible so that when earthquakes and natural disasters like that struck, the people would not be crushed by a heavy house.

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You simply don't know what's going on around the world for the past 50 years. It's really funny when you make a comment like this.
Yhe reason for them to use RC concrete reinforced structure is not only to protect from strom but also from earthquakes.

What do you call it when a natural disaster kills thousands of people??

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Global Killing.

..a tragedy, and a (*)(*)(*)(*) shame.

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