[Rhodes22-list] Coastal Storm reply to Mike

[Herb Parsons]

I don't remember the company that makes them, but shortly after Katrina 
(of course, that's when interest was high, we ARE quite an ADD lot, 
aren't we?), there was a company that would build "normal" houses in 
which the basic structure was essentially hurricane proof.

They used hollow blocks that were basically the same size and shape as a 
cinderblock, and made out of styrofoam!. First, the foundation was 
poured, but with rebar running vertically where the walls were to go. 
Then the styrofoam blocks put in place with the rebar running through 
them. They then poured cement into the fully assembled sytrofoam 
external walls. They had some system for the roof. After that, it was 
normal finish out inside.

The claim was that you would make back the initial cost in energy 
savings (concrete is a pretty good insulation) and insurance savings in 
less than 7 years.


Tootle wrote:
> The house in frame 11 has a message.  The owners lost there last house to a
> hurricane.  They hired an architect to design a house that would withstand a
> cat 5 hurricane and hired a contractor to build it like it was supposed to
> be built.  That house is not an accident, rather it is an example.
>
> This picture was commented on by the pilot and house owner on the national
> news.
>
> I suspect that it did not have a subprime mortagage.
>
> Ed K
> Greenville, SC, USA
>
>
>
> Brad Haslett-2 wrote:
>   
>> One hates to be an A-hole under such circumstances but the FEMA prime
>> called me for the third time yesterday wanting our proof of insurance
>> (I spent most of today getting the new limits in place).  "Why are you
>> calling me unless the usual subs aren't showing?"  A guy on my Bo list
>> is on the city council of a local community that was hit.  My advice
>> to him was to call all the local contractors, "you know who the good
>> guys are and they'll just git er done". Send FEMA the bill".  We've
>> been there and done that.  Breathing the mold and dealing with the
>> rats and snakes is not fun.  The media has already lost interest in
>> Galveston - not enough images to sell soap on the nightly news and not
>> enough victims.  If these images tug at your heart, send money to the
>> Red Cross and the Salvation Army.  Those two are first on the scene
>> and do yeoman's work.
>>
>> Brad
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Michael D. Weisner <mweisner at ebsmed.com>
>> wrote:
>>     
>>> Brad,
>>>
>>> Those are some amazing photos.  I saved #17 and attached it (below).  It
>>> is
>>> the new cartop version of that particular sailboat line.
>>>
>>> Mike
>>> s/v Shanghai'd Summer ('81)
>>> Nissequogue River, NY
>>>
>>> From: "Brad Haslett" <flybrad at gmail.com>Sent: Thursday, September 25,
>>> 2008
>>> 4:16 PM
>>>       
>>>> Elle,
>>>>
>>>> Here are some photos of Ike-
>>>>
>>>> http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/09/the_short_but_eventful_life_of.html
>>>>
>>>> I wish we (my brother and I and our mega-world company) had the guts,
>>>> or the capital, or the sense of obligation to respond to this one.
>>>> God help these people.
>>>>
>>>> Batten down the hatches and tie every thing down tightly.
>>>>
>>>> Brad
>>>>         
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