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Originally Posted by leaguegolf
As stagday mentioned.....it's an interesting article. If you disagree with it you risk ending up with the status quo in the damaged areas and if you agree.....you're likely to labeled a racist. It's certainly food for thought.
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I found it interesting that the article was written by a black minister.
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Originally Posted by coupe69
Just out of interest i'm wondering why many houses over in the States are made out of wood?
Surely not the best of materials to make a house of especially in hurricane and tornado prone areas.
I just find it amazing as most houses over here in the UK are built from two layers of bricks with double or triple glazing, and we usually don't have anywhere near the extreme weather you guys do.
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While homes made of wood might suffer significant damage during the high winds of a hurricane, some of the concrete homes around here were washed away by Katrina's powerful storm surge. Most of the devastating damage and death is caused by the hurricane's storm surge and resulting floods, not the winds. The destruction of the Twin Span bridge between New Orleans and Slidell and the bridge across Bay St. Louis in Mississippi are good examples of just how vulnerable any structure is in the path of mighty surge, which in effect is a tsunami. Around Slidell, I have seen several old, rather dilapidated wooden homes washed, almost completely intact, hundreds of yards from their original foundation. I was shocked that the storm surge, which I've read was over 30 ft., reached inland areas over 10 miles from the shore in places. I saw a picture of storm surge debris piled on top of an I-10 overpass crossing a highway in Mississippi. I know that overpass is at least 10 miles from the beach, because I taken that route many times to go to the casino in Bay St. Louis. I'm sure that building codes and flood zones around here (and hopefully levee construction in New Orleans) will be examined, reviewed and revised many times over for future construction in hurricane prone areas.