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To: avacado
Wonder if that house belongs there, or just one of those crazy things that sometimes happen in natural disasters?
24 posted on 09/16/2008 12:42:18 PM PDT by Coldwater Creek ("Read my lipstick")
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To: Coldwater Creek

Look carefully at that house . You can literally see the concrete pad that it was built on & it appears to be built on stilts because all the walls of the first floor are gone.


25 posted on 09/16/2008 12:50:56 PM PDT by Nebr FAL owner (.308 reach out & thump someone .50 cal.Browning Machine gun reach out & crush someone)
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To: Coldwater Creek

From a distance, the house looks ok...zoom in and you can see that the house is a total loss(cement pad undercut, stairwell gone, nothing left on first floor but the “stilts” which are supporting the entire upper floors...obviously a great deal of thought went into it’s construction, but, the wind and surge were just too much. Shoot, even the street and sidewalks are gone.


28 posted on 09/16/2008 1:15:16 PM PDT by crazyhorse691 (McCain will screw the conservatives, but, Obama will screw the whole country.)
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To: Coldwater Creek

I thought the same thing.

How deep are the stilts that support a house on the beach? Anyone know?


32 posted on 09/16/2008 1:24:32 PM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights (Stand up, Chuck)
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