Are these vacation houses? Or are these houses year round residences?
Whenever there is a hurricane or flood along a river and houses are washed away, I think of the Bible and the lessons about building houses near water. I always wanted to have a house near water but figured I would need to be very rich because the house would need to be expendable.
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Don't ever be down on living near water. Just build on the hilltop.
I will NEVER understand the stilt cr**...and why it is even allowed.
East Texas, near where the Big Sandy and Sabine rivers collide, I have family who live in a little “village,” it isn’t big enough to be a town. Each structure there is built on 15’-20’ tall stilts - all the houses and even the convenience store and pool hall!
Now THAT is good planning!
Sandy beaches should be left as first found....sandy beaches.
Building homes on them, putting in all the utilities including natural gas....what would you expect in a furious storm?
Home owners across the nation pays increases in insurance for these (in many cases) second homes.
Prayers go out to all in the path of the storm. My advice use the beaches as the good Lord intended.
They are both. Mile for mile, NJ probably has more continuous shore towns along its coast than probably any other state, most of them along the 'barrier islands' that border all along its coastline.
I live in NJ, and Sunday helped my in-laws move up furniture from 1st to 2nd flr from their shore house on a lagoon in Beach Haven West, before Sandy struck later the next day. Good thing we did, the entire area ultimately went under water when Sandy struck.
There is a children’s church song been around a long time about the foolish man who built his house upon the sand and the rains came down and the floods came up and the house on the sand went smash. The wise man built his house upon the rock.... and the house on the rock stood fast.