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Author of the message: "MaxChunk@ergebnis.de"

Title of the message:
Re: Hurricane-proof House

Text of the message:
Nehmo wrote:

> How should this house be built and what should it have?

There's a big clue whenever you see news shots of the flooded city.
What structures are still standing, almost completely untouched?
The big apartment buildings.
Just build multistory buildings, and put all essential building
utilities on the second floor or higher.  Let the bottom floor have only
   easily repaired interiors and utilities.  Connect the second floors
of the buildings using a system of walkways just like in Minneapolis.
You could even build the walkways open air, using the wrought iron
balcony style popular for Mardi Gras in New Orleans.  This would make
the city a fun place to visit.
Essentially this is the "house on stilts" idea but on a big enough scale
you could house a population of 500,000 in a densely populated area.
For car storage some buildings would use the lower 3 or 4 stories for



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