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Originally Posted by jd3189
Well , in that case, why have people continue to build homes anywhere? Unless you're at the Midwest,
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Preposterously, the Midwest has been in relative decline, despite its bottomless well of fresh water, low earthquake risk, lack of forest fires (I did see one in Kentucky in the late 90s), and once-per-50-year drought that occasionally menaces commercial river traffic.
Today's Wall St. Journal's article mentions that most new-construction homes in Ft. Meyers survived the storm intact:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/florida...=hp_lead_pos10
Buried in the article is a guy who built his new-construction home four feet above the required 12ft elevation...so I'm guessing that his front door is 16 feet off the ground. I bet it's a blast being 85 years old and carrying groceries and everything up into the Ewok Village.