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There really oughta be a hurricane-proof trend, like dome houses, and for the coastline, domes on stilts.
Pensacola Beach, FL. It's survived loads of hurricanes since the 60s.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/pensacola-futuro-house
OTOH, so have the single-story cinder block houses(the three in the middle and top left) from the 50s. Slap a new roof on and scrub it out, good to go. The stick houses are total losses. Apparently no one read The Three Little Pigs.
South Florida is full of these small cinder block houses because everything else gets wrecked and these survive. Sure, they might need some new roof sections, and maybe the drywall cut 4ft from the floor, but porcelain tiles on a concrete slab with cinder block walls is going to last until the rebar rots.
There's a house that just went up I saw which meets the recent Florida keys codes, and it is a goddamned fortress. It's on a lot that is raised 4 ft, the house is made of concrete and sits on 15+ ft concrete pilings, ceramic roof, and high impact windows all around. https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/374-Mahogany-Dr-Key-Largo-FL-33037/104218949_zpid/
I think they were onto something when they built the pyramids. Like, what's wrong with making smaller home sized pyramids? The big ones sure as hell proved to stand the test of time.
The inhabitants of the pyramids all died, though.
Design flaw. They forgot to make the doors openable.
Usable space.
You are literally suggesting living in a tomb.
Whether the pyramids were particularly intended as tombs or not, why the hell do dead people get structures that can last thousands of years? While the living people get to live in structures that if we're lucky, might tend to last a hundred years, and that's assuming they don't get blown apart in a hurricane or burned down or something.
Seems a bit back asswards if you ask me.
Because the requirements are different. Royalty inhabit places designed to last thousands of years (castles), and they are known to be dreadful to live in. Stone walkways and stairs wear and become uneven, shifting foundations create little gaps for drafts to flow in, modern conveniences are difficult to install, if possible at all.
It is better for living humans to inhabit spaces that can be replaced and updated over time. The dead need things to stay essentially the same, and they don’t wear down the areas they reside in.
The dead don't need a damn thing though.
How about don't live where hurricanes keep happening? Crazy thought, I know.
That excludes where half the US population lives.
And?
Let’s move 100,000,000 people, what could go wrong?
I'm sure The Cherokee, Chocktaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole Peoples could give us some pointers!
/dh
If it keeps getting hotter and the storms keep getting worse, we will find out. At the very least, property prices anywhere still liveable will likely become even more unaffordable.
You act like there are hurricanes every year and they don't offer insurance anymore.
The coast should be empty