All of that still leaves my dumb question. Why don’t southern states homes have basements?
Here where I am, the water table is about 6ft. Hard to have a basement when you have water 6ft down.
/johnny
In too many places in the South, a basement is an invitation to a flood.
Lax coding. The claim that it would be too expensive.
Tell you what, if it’s going to cost me 25% more, I’m diggin’ deep enough to pay it.
It angers me that homes back there aren’t required to have a safe room below ground.
I told another person here, that I spent a night in Joplin during which there were twelve strikes of lightening within two miles of me, in one minute. And I spent it without a basement or safe room.
After that night, and my care for the people back there, I was convinced that something needed to be done.
Well....in my case, we have what is called caliche as bedrock, and it would have to be blasted with dynamite
in order to have a basement. It’s not feasible.
Don’t know about the others. :)
It is my understanding that much of the area has a type of red clay that is heck on basement walls. You can dig a basement but the preparation will cost you dearly.
Gumbo.
Texas often has lots of shifting top soil, not rock below it. Can’t build a basement on that very well.