CanyonAg77 said:

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Back to the OP, sure, she might not flood...but hurricane force winds are sending that thing into the next county,

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All thread, strong walls and a ton of straps and nails. But yea, it's probably still a waste of money.

As soon as any part of the building envelope fails the entire structure disintegrates into the wind. A door, a few windows or the roof lifting just a tad. There is a wind tunnel in North Carolina (?) where they do this research. Videos are epic, if a bit frightening.

ToddyHill said:

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It was cheaper to lift the house and rebuild the floors than to tear down and rebuild up high.

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This.

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You kids never worked with government funded housing programs. Cost-effective is not something that routinely factors in.

This is literally every house on Port A that is within half a mile of the water

If you live in a hurricane/flooding prone area it just makes sense

Helicopter Ben said:

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The other issue is the refusal to do anything about entitlements. We all know that we're getting hosed for these completely unsustainable programs. Most boomers will even admit that we're screwed. But then when you ask them if they'd be willing to cut it the answer is always no. So they admit they're screwing over their children and maybe even their grandchildren, but they gotta get theirs.

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Something like 40% of baby boomers do not have a retirement account (no 401k, no IRA, nothing), and the median among people who do have one is $300-600k depending on what source you use. That's alarming even with supplemental income from SS and Medicare, and nowhere near enough to sustain a person through retirement if those take significant cuts.

The horrifying truth is we built an unsustainable ponzi scheme that tens of millions of people now require to pay their bills and meet basic needs.

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Why does it look like she put it on stacks of pallets

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torrid said:

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There's a house on Clear Lake that did just the same thing. Lifted the whole thing up, garage and all. The garage doors are still there, albeit with a ten foot drop-off.

A few years ago when my father was sick in the hospital, I went on a walk to relieve stress and came across that house.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/cR5unMQgCtEaEyvz7

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That does look funny. They've done a bunch in Nassau Bay like that.

Jack Squat 83 said:

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Amazingly without all of the equipment we have nowadays:

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They didn't have a lot of regulations in the way, I suspect the pay rate was rather low, and killing a worker wasn't much of a deal. That was an amazing feat, one that would be very hard to pull off now.

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Looks like the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock.

Those crazy boomahs have been at it for a long time.

https://www.galvestonhistorycenter.org/research/grade-raising.

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TacosaurusRex said:

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I don't understand the big deal. Where I grew up everyone lifted their houses, family friends outside of Lake Charles had their entire neighborhoods lifted after Katrina.

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How many have you seen lifted that high?

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Well, my exes parents house was lifted two levels, so 18-22'. Again, this is some Gen Z goober seeing something on the internet and acting like they discovered something new.

I usually do not give the state of Louisiana any credit outside of hunting and food, but one of the things they did when they raised all those houses was they added cheap elevators that were built into the upstairs decking. They were 8x8 platforms that raised and lowered from the deck all the way to the ground so you didn't have to carry heavy stuff up two flights of stairs. It was run off a boat lift motor and I thought it was genius and cheap.

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Broseph said:

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Yep, these are wooden 6x6 placed cross wise as they lift up the house. They do this in Galveston all the time.

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We did a few of these in the Ike programs and steered away from these in Harvey programs. My pucker factor of putting a house on cribbing and in some cases we had to not just lift but shift… who doggy. BTW high-tech lubricant uses to slide houses on girders was none other than Dawn dish soap.

Competitor of hours was up in Jersey doing one of these and it toppled over. Killed a worker and severely damaged the adjacent home. Not a cheap problem.

You get a house that high and expect some level of motion sickness in high winds. We hit 20ft elevation on some and one in mid-twenties on the San Jac river north of Houston (new construction). You cannot cross brace as you need to maintain free flow of water underneath. Nuts.

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All that bull**** or....move.

Hmmmm, I know what I'd choose.

Not that it really matters but I am curious How the OP knows the homeowner is a boomer?

Grandparents lived near lake Livingston and lifted there house 12' I think. But used large treated beams I think

CanyonAg77 said:

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FWIW, we structured our retirement assuming that Medicare and Social Security would be broke by now,

Since they aren't, we are using them and saving our retirement, probably passing a lot to our kids.

And FIY, it ain't "Boomers" who refuse to touch entitlements, It's Democrats who love to scare people in order to harvest votes,

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I agree, it is not an entitlement for the majority of boomers, it is a return on (forced) investment.

If we could have paid our social security into even a low 4% interest IRA our return on investment would be much greater.

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flown-the-coop said:

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Broseph said:

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Yep, these are wooden 6x6 placed cross wise as they lift up the house. They do this in Galveston all the time.

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We did a few of these in the Ike programs and steered away from these in Harvey programs. My pucker factor of putting a house on cribbing and in some cases we had to not just lift but shift… who doggy. BTW high-tech lubricant uses to slide houses on girders was none other than Dawn dish soap.

Competitor of hours was up in Jersey doing one of these and it toppled over. Killed a worker and severely damaged the adjacent home. Not a cheap problem.

You get a house that high and expect some level of motion sickness in high winds. We hit 20ft elevation on some and one in mid-twenties on the San Jac river north of Houston (new construction). You cannot cross brace as you need to maintain free flow of water underneath. Nuts.

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All that bull**** or....move.

Hmmmm, I know what I'd choose.

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Making people move from their flooded homes is racist.

They actually had a relo program as part of Harvey. The statemor local gubmit would offer a VDL sitting on their books and the homeowner would have new house on new lot and old house demolished and that lot put on the books.

Homeowners declined this as many are poor, elderly and staying within the community, church etc was too much to overcome. Some areas like the aforementioned Port Arthur and also in Texas City had to relocate as the existing home was in the defined blast zones. Floodways are also a no build zone.

Regardless, the lifting as per the OP is a gigantic waste of funds. And another is correct in that Nassau Bay is a honey-hole of these.

torrid said:

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There's a house on Clear Lake that did just the same thing. Lifted the whole thing up, garage and all. The garage doors are still there, albeit with a ten foot drop-off.

A few years ago when my father was sick in the hospital, I went on a walk to relieve stress and came across that house.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/cR5unMQgCtEaEyvz7

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That will mitigate expensive slab leak repairs, but the roof shingle replacement is going to be more costly.

halfastros81 said:

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Not that it really matters but I am curious How the OP knows the homeowner is a boomer?

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Because a 30 year old would never live in such discomfort...or live in the burbs...or do something unconventional in any way shape or form.

I have no problem with this if someone wants to spend their money doing it.

if her house was previously flooded it may not even be that costly. Friend of mine got FEMA to pay for 80% of his

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You know how boomers got all that money?

They worked for it.

You should try it. It might work for you, too.

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TacosaurusRex said:

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I don't understand the big deal. Where I grew up everyone lifted their houses, family friends outside of Lake Charles had their entire neighborhoods lifted after Katrina.

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Galveston raised nearly the entire island after the 1901 storm. Everything old is new again.

The Greatest Generation is no longer around to point out how spoiled the Boomers were, so now Boomers get to pretend that they are a great generation.

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TacosaurusRex said:

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I don't understand the big deal. Where I grew up everyone lifted their houses, family friends outside of Lake Charles had their entire neighborhoods lifted after Katrina.

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Galveston raised nearly the entire island after the 1901 storm. Everything old is new again.

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The storm was in 1900.

Jack Squat 83 said:

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Amazingly without all of the equipment we have nowadays:

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The same thing was done to Kemah Texas

Her house. Her money.

rocky the dog said:

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Seagoville Hilton .

Rubicante said:

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The Greatest Generation is no longer around to point out how spoiled the Boomers were, so now Boomers get to pretend that they are a great generation.

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No real greatness. Just you with 30-35 more life experience.

Related article said approaching $600k. I think FEMA limits "structural repairs to $250k.

The very youngest boomers are now 62 or so altho the argument has been made that the later boomers aren't even boomers at all but rather Gen Jones and I think there's some legit truth to it. Later "boomers" are very different from early "boomers".

I get your point tho.

OP:

AgBQ-00 said:

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Why does it look like she put it on stacks of pallets

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halfastros81 said:

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The very youngest boomers are now 62 or so altho the argument has been made that the later boomers aren't even boomers at all but rather Gen Jones and I think there's some legit truth to it. Later "boomers" are very different from early "boomers".

I get your point tho.

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As a Late Boomer, I get this. A little bit too late to get the best of the Boomers.