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flosofl posted:Yeah, that's pretty much exactly how you do it to do work on foundations or to add elevation supports for flood prone areas. Being that high I'm going to guess they're adding a lower level to allow storm surges to wash through without wiping out the living area or washing away the house altogether. Say like a carport and storage areas. I know that FEMA charges a 10x premium if your house isn't elevated enough in risk areas. So instead of flood insurance costing you $3600/yr it will cost $36,000/yr. Why even give insurance in flood plains?
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Spookydonut posted:Why even give insurance in flood plains? Because rich assholes like having you pay for their vacation homes on the beach, and they can lobby like they're unlucky farmers in river valleys.
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And also because not every potential flood risk area is literally on a beach. Though it's mostly rich assholes pretending they're unlucky saps. There are still actual unlucky saps, though.
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hailthefish posted:And also because not every potential flood risk area is literally on a beach. Some places only flood like once every 100 years as well.
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Spookydonut posted:Why even give insurance in flood plains? If you live inland near a river, everywhere is a floodplain. St Louis, Cincinnati, Memphis, New Orleans, all in flood plains.
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The porch has no floor.
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Peanut President posted:If you live inland near a river, everywhere is a floodplain. St Louis, Cincinnati, Memphis, New Orleans, all in flood plains. I live in a city that has legislation preventing people building in dumb places. quote:``Perth hasn't allowed development in the flood plains to the same extent as what has happened in Brisbane,'' a WA Bureau of Meteorology spokesman said. http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/would-perth-cope-with-100-year-flood/story-e6frg19l-1225988360374
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In my town there's an area that floods roughly every 2 years there's a small flood (5 inches of water all around) and 10 years there's a bigger flood (upto 4 ft) near the river, but there's also a bunch of businesses there because its where the railway line used to run through town, so they're all on stilts about 4-6ft high with steps into the buildings. I used to work there and any time it did flood there was a funny process that you could see unfold where people look out a window and see a flood startting and they panic, you see them leave the building and then they look at a small amount of water, look at the stilts and think, ah we'll be fine in a building on stilts. Then a little bit later they'd see the water has risen and someone says "uh but what about the cars" and they run to the other window and look at water that's now beginning creep up the carpark which causes panic moment 2.
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If you built a house in an area with a high chance of flooding, insurance against that eventually is exactly the sort of thing you should be interested in buying. And if there's a lot of demand for it, there's probably someone interested in selling it. The insurance company charges an amount commensurate with the risk of it happening, and the expected damages if it does happen, and in exchange for shouldering the risk expects to make a reasonable profit when that's amortized alongside all the other "risky" things it's insuring. The government subsidizing those insurance costs is kind of screwy though, unless the elevated risk was caused by something the government did after the buildings were constructed.
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Spookydonut posted:I live in a city that has legislation preventing people building in dumb places. I don't know about in Australia but when a river goes from 22 to 53 feet (~30 foot/10 meters difference) everywhere is a floodplain. Peanut President fucked around with this message at 12:17 on Mar 17, 2015 |
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Leperflesh posted:I loving love this photo. It's telling a whole story, isn't it. Like that famous (possibly apocryphal) bet someone supposedly once made to Hemmingway, that he couldn't tell a whole story in six words, to which he allegedly responded: Oh no: my chainsaw, im hosed
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Looking at that uninsulated addition; is that kastein's home? adding some content for a good time. I'm terrified of BLEVEs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gI0qU4EZbS8 Wasabi the J fucked around with this message at 13:43 on Mar 17, 2015 |
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Spookydonut posted:Why even give insurance in flood plains? The insurance company sob stories are because we haven't really started to understand what our suburban expansion in the 50s-70s has done so you have public works like roads and storm drains sending water to what should be geologically isolated, and reclaimed wetlands meaning that water must be going somewhere else now.
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zedprime posted:Insuring a geologic flood plain is pretty easy money because barring anything much crazier happening with global warming, you know exactly how often the areas going to get hosed up based on elevations and silt deposits. The sob stories end up because anything that isn't beach front and in 100 year or less plain ends up being cheap to buy because the middle class understands the insurance will be killer, but the low class sees cheap property but can't pay the flood insurance. That said, why bother taking global warming into consideration when you can just make it illegal? http://abcnews.go.com/US/north-carolina-bans-latest-science-rising-sea-level/story?id=16913782
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I don't want to bag all these leaves, so I'm just gonna sweep them under the house.
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At least he's wearing gloves?
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In the engineers office where I work... These people went to college maybe MariusLecter fucked around with this message at 21:56 on Mar 19, 2015 |
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MariusLecter posted:In the engineers office where I work... It might be an inside joke???
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Propaganda Hour posted:It might be an inside joke??? they're just sheets with a fold down the middle
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It's an archaic spelling, but valid. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/compleat
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Wasabi the J posted:Looking at that uninsulated addition; is that kastein's home? At :36, what looks like debris flying off to the left is a actually a entire railway car. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-tUQTw_Vtk The dash cam video from the Texarkana explosion is pretty quote:October 15, 2005 – United States – Texarkana, Arkansas, Union Pacific train rear-ends another train, derailing and puncturing a tank car containing propylene. The leak reaches an ignition source at a nearby house, causing a massive explosion and subsequent fire. A 1-mile (1.6 km) radius is evacuated, and one resident is killed.
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Uthor posted:It's an archaic spelling, but valid. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HJ-Y8YTo8Q *insert Star Wars OSHA rant here*
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C.M. Kruger posted:
The full ~10 minute video was better, i liked the build up to the explosion. It seems to have gone completely missing off the internet though
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`Nemesis posted:The full ~10 minute video was better, i liked the build up to the explosion. It seems to have gone completely missing off the internet though Yeah I tried to find it but didn't turn up anything. I hate it when that happens, the full recording of the United Airlines 232 cockpit voice recorder used to be up on Youtube but now there's only a truncated version. Anyways, in 1982 two (apparently drunken) British soldiers stole a APC (FV432, think a M113) in West Germany, and were then killed when, after escaping multiple roadblocks and eluding police, they stopped on some train tracks and were rammed by a express train, 20> passengers were injured. http://www.gerdboehmer-berlinereisenbahnarchiv.de/Statistiken/BBU-DR-DB.html And in 1988, 6 people were killed and 30> injured when two Russian tank crewmen abandoned their T-64 on a railway line in Berlin. According to Google Translate, "the electric locomotive was compressed." http://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/und-dann-stand-der-panzer-auf-dem-gleis/1177806.html
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The stairs will be fine. Those pants though won't last much longer...
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Load bearing pattern.
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lmfao. Someone somewhere looked at this and actually thought "yeah. that'll work."
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Queen Gnome posted:lmfao. Someone somewhere looked at this and actually thought "yeah. that'll work." People constantly do, it's amazing and how some learn.
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Haruharuharuko posted:Ok I'll bite other than powering the wall from another really close wall what could this possibly for? Double-ender, for robot lesbians.
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http://imgur.com/a/3YvDJ When OSHA and Social Media collide. quote:Electrician in Denmark gets fired after publishing pictures on FB of how bad the safety is on the metro construction sights he has been working under the past year. He was fired after having a some time off in january due to sickness and later heard from colleagues that the real reason he got fired was because the company didn't want him to ruin anything for them.
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Minrad posted:http://imgur.com/a/3YvDJ
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you do it no you do it
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MariusLecter posted:In the engineers office where I work... Why do you keep an oversized buttplug next to the additional compleated sheets
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