Seems to be a logical step putting one’s home up on stilts to avoid flooding
and save the biggest investment most of us will ever have, our house. We
all see that private property on flood plains is threatened. Looking at the example in the cover photo draws one into considerations both practical and philosophical.
Climbing lots of stairs to reach the entrance is great excercise if the elevator does not work but it would pose other problems. When the flood water arrives one would have to load up the truck and and trailer and find shelter for it on higher ground then use an inflatable dingy to motor or paddle back to the house. All this to say that in the end the market resale value for a property like this would be discounted sharply.
The house on another level refers to the comic struggles of Don Quixote. How far is a home owner willing to go with, ‘Just Living the Dream’. This house is a testament to our collective state of denial, at once poetic, touching, brave, and ingenious, but also pathetic, ridiculous and doomed.
Outside a comprehensive plan on reduction of fossil fuel consumption across the board the logical thing to do is implement measures so government can expropriate all the flood lands and let them return to their natural role in the eviornmental ecosystem.
Assistance should be given to home owners in relocating.
The way the Paris Agreement Targets are looking things are going to get a lot worse and stay that way for a long time before they stabalize.
Fairly gentle as a rant, Fred. I laughed at where to put the truck. Don’t know which is more absurd: heathy prices for flood prone shore properties or continuing optimism that states will act to reach critical emissions targets.
Tonite, the National reported that the construction has started on the Trans-Mountain pipeline, noting we are getting closer to having Canadian resources reach new markets at higher prices. Meanwhile, the Tyee argued that governments need to face the reality that the fossil fuel industry is collapsing, given the shrinking interest in investment. This is the same type of disconnect that makes it possible for someone to rhapsodize about their dream beach home as the flood waters recede yet again.