Blinhart wrote:eastcoastFL wrote:Steve wrote:
400k in the Triangle, 225k in Lake Charles. (Beaumont, Port Arthur, Orange, Lake Charles/Sulphur are the main cities).
Would you say its a fairly low lying area? Do they have construction code in LA like here in S.Fl where they build homes with cement block mostly?
Most of the homes south of Lake Charles that survived Ike and Rita, are not made of cement, I think there isn't that many made of cement, the building codes were not updated like in Florida after Andrew. So the only code that was updated was the elevation of the homes, all homes south of Intracoastal Waterway are either on stilts or built up mounds of earth. A lot of insurance companies will not even insure homes south of Hwy 90.
Makes sense. There's plenty of old wooden homes down here that have survived. Nothing is going to stop water so stilts is the best bet. During Michael even some block home got demolished. Once that roof peels off its over. I think at a certain point like Michael there's just not much that survives. I remember that Mexico Beach photo where everything is gone but 1 house and the guy said he triple reinforced everything to withstand the big one.