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To: wolfcreek

After the Galviston hurricane, killed 8,000 in the early 1900's, they raised the entire island 13 feet. Seems to have worked.


3,573 posted on 08/29/2005 11:55:31 AM PDT by conservativewasp (Liberals lie for sport and hate their country. Islam is a terrorist organization.)
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To: conservativewasp
they raised the entire island 13 feet

How do you raise an island? Does the former first floor of a house that survived the hurricane become it's basement?

3,586 posted on 08/29/2005 11:59:58 AM PDT by green iguana
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To: conservativewasp

That is not entirely accurate. They raised the grade of the island. I don't exactly remember, but I believe it was a 15 degree grade. For existing buildings, they "lifted" them using jackscrews and, using a vey hugh pipe, pumped wet sand in the spaces below with sand from the ship channel. They also built the seawall for further protection.


3,826 posted on 08/29/2005 12:47:31 PM PDT by Peanut Gallery
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