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Any American who lives in Hurricane prone areas can't comprehend this lasting for more than a decade at best before it is washed away clean.
I'd give it 3-4 years. Maybe five if they're sturdy, but not a decade.
And yet, we continue to live directly, knowingly in the path of multiple hurricanes every year instead of simply moving. I always thought going into the construction business around the Outer Banks must be a money cheat.
That might be about to change now that insurance companies are tightening the purse strings in areas that see a lot of Natural disasters
We have very few hurricanes in Europe. Most of these houses are hundreds of years old.
That being said, rising sea levels could destroy this and lots of other towns for good.
Yeah, cause drywall is so much stronger than stone
Mad because America still has access to trees, huh.
More seriously, the coastal county near me has seen 15 hurricanes make landfall in the past 35 years. Of those, 9 have been a category 2 or higher. You guys in your latitude get little tornadoes and some half-hearted shaky-shake that barely even registers, not earthquakes and hurricanes.
Unless your windowless, single-story house composed of 8in. of reinforced, perfectly uncracked concrete comes with an identical roof like a bomb shelter, I would strongly recommend weathering it out with whichever distant family member will take you. Anything above a Cat. 1 can just rip the ceiling off and stone in an earthquake stands a chance of aerating your skull, for all the expense you put into building it.
Brick in particular is fucking terrible for this. This is one of the reasons every now and then, you'll see a stone building totalled while a wooden one down the street sits untouched. Wood's pretty flexible and natural disasters are weird.
Also, lol you live in a fancy oven you can't even renovate and you'll be dead long before I am
We have a lot of reinforced concrete coastal fortifications built during WWII that have been destroyed due to storms. The storms wash away the land around them, the foundation collapses, and the structure breaks.