Posted on 09/03/2019 11:57:15 AM PDT by mplc51
Yes, I know.
The second floor
Actually, it is not that terribly expensive for the terrain of the Bahamas to greatly improve housing construction such that a majority of houses would survive a hurricane.
Very large buildings that resorts build are usually strong enough to prevent most major damages.
They prefer low land near the shore.
Small homes can be built into the hillsides with cement walls, where the hill itself shelters the building from one or more direction, and cement walls and hurrican resistent doors and windows secure the rest. The hillside can even provide the roof, with windows only facing out from the hillside.
But doing that would take a utopian government arranged plan, with all the incursions against freedoms that would entail.
On the other hand, a bunch of smart developers could gradually do it bit by bit, building affordable hurricane resistant housing & even shops, into the hillsides, buying lowland properties in exchange for the hillside homes, and continuing resort development hi rises nearer the shore. Over a decade or two they can transform an island state like the Bahamas.
On the other hand again, like all utopian plans, it could wind up resembling plastic-like Disneyland and have all the local charm of an AI program.
Best leave the changes to what the folks can organically work out by their own choices.
They’re working on it, feverishly.
Roger Moore is CEO of Nautical Ventures. He is organizing a flotilla to get to the Bahamas ASAP.
Here is a list of where and what to donate:
https://www.local10.com/weather/hurricane/heres-how-to-donate-help-bahamas-recover-from-dorian
https://www.jupitermag.com/noteworthy/ways-support-bahamas-after-hurricane-dorian
The people themselves or the Brits. It is their protectorate . The US should charge the Brits and their extremely wealthy royalty . No US taxpayer money that isn’t reimbursed.
I wonder if those large homes are made of concrete and all of the rest of the home are made of wood.
Puerto RIco is pretty much back to normal, although the media won’t tell you that.
She is very busy right now dealing with Randy Andy scandal in regards with his escapades with Jeffrey Epstein on Orgy Island..
https://gobgr.org/
“Ground” floors nearest the shore would be on pilons, not at sea level. The “beach” should be expected to be lost in giant storms. Some places inland that should it sill be expected to see the most massive possible storm surge, dikes can be built as well as water handling channels there only for storm surge occasions. There should always be some “green spaces” where possible, between the shoreline and human occupied land, that is expected to flood in storms and provide some natural brake on storm surges. Those kind of protections would be less expensive than the repeated governmenmt insurance bailouts.
If Obama had been President in 2001 and had played golf on the day after the 9/11 attacks, the media would not have found fault with him for it.
ROFL ROFL Thank you for the laugh I needed that. It is so true Everything that Democrats touches gets destroyed far worse as if nature destroyed it.
A prudent investment at this time would be a cement plant on Grand Bahama that makes concrete blocks using local sand. Since all the building materials have to be shipped in from CONUS concrete is likely very expensive due to its weight. So people went with wood. No more of these cheap stick houses.
Memory Lane is a street. You take a trip down Memory Lane. You step back in time.
You ar probably right. The portland cement part of cement would likely have to have some portion of its ingrediaents imported, but then local sources might be available for the sand and gravel needed to be bound by the portland cement (cement is often a mix of portland cement, sand and gravel).
“By mass, lime and silica make up approximately 85% of portland cement. The materials that are commonly used are limestone, shells, chalk, shale, clay, slate, silica sand, and iron ore. Since limestone is the main component, often cement plants are located near limestone quarries.”
that from a wiki entry
I’ll contact you if I win the lotto big.
No but if we're not first on site to help those impacted and vocal in our support and our aid then people will blame Trump and well they should.
Wow, prayers for the victims and their loved ones. What devastation. I was insulated from news all weekend, just heard that the storm basically sat on top of the Bahamas barely crawling along, dumping its energy over those poor people. Keeps things in perspective.
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