I didn’t post the photo credited to me.
The photo Nauti posted IS NOT a hoax.
Those damage levels are CONFIRMED by numerous other aerial grid photos.
Manmade structures on the eastern reaches of Bolivar Peninsula, for the most part, no longer exist.
If you look at that house, you can see why it survived when others didn’t. Most were up on stilts. The stilts offer little resistance to surge and fare well. But when the surge reaches the main structure, it either floats off the stilts and then gets beat to death, or else get smashed off the stilts, end of story.
Another prime method of failure, is when the sand around and under the stilts gets washed away, with predictable results for the house resting on them.
That house has a full concrete slab at grade level around and over the stilts, no washing, no scouring, stilts remain structurally viable much longer than stilts without a slab to protect them.
I’ll bet $500 that they took one other critical step in the construction of that house too, because the slab costs big bucks, and this costs very little in comparison.
Most people depend mostly on gravity to hold structures down.
A very few go the extra step and bolt it down. Bolted structures resist upthrusts orders of magnitude better than gravity held structures.
Bolts are cheap. Forces strong enough to lift a house against gravity suck. Failure to bolt is a mystery to me.
I was late getting to the thread today (work) and your post was the first I saw of the NOAA satellite images (originally posted by NautiNurse, if I have done my research right this time).
When I looked at that, zoomed up, and saw the house; I remembered the photo of that lone house that was in the Daily Mail article, that another Freeper (IM2MAD) had posted a link to. I hadn't meant to slight another Freeper or to give you "all the credit" for the photo; that was just sloppy writing on my part.
Also, thanks for posting the rest of your comment, about how you are thinking that the lone house was built that made it a survivor. Your explanation makes sense.
Bolts are cheap. Forces strong enough to lift a house against gravity suck. Failure to bolt is a mystery to me.
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