This raised Louisiana home for sale is REALLY RAISED!!!

[True Dough]

Since it's located right on the coast, you'd be well protected from flood waters, but I'd be nervous as hell that hurricane-force winds would blow it right off those those pillars.

Besides, that's a ton of stairs to go up and down every time you come and go. So that's a no for me, even at $210,000.

Here's the full listing:

https://www.zillow.com/homes/39525-Highway-23,-Buras,-LA-70041_rb/115161323_zpid/

[niyad]

1. I will pass, thannk you.

[Laffy Kat]

3. Plus, there's no real counter space in the kitchen. nt

[bluedigger]

2. There's a pretty good chance I did the Section 106 review for this one.

I was a historic preservation specialist for FEMA in NOLA and did compliance reviews for historic impacts. Looks like this one passed.

[True Dough]

6. You're serious, bluedigger?

I guess one way to preserve properties is to literally stay off of them via elevation! But I'd bet it won't remain that way in 150 MPH F5 hurricane winds. It would be a splatter all over the ground.

[bluedigger]

13. To be clear, I only did historical review of the property.

Any engineering reviews were a whole different group of people.

[LeftInTX]

18. How did this pass any historical review??

LOL

[bluedigger]

19. Well, it was a two step process, more or less.

An architectural historian looked at the structure and determined it was less than 50 years old, and then an archaeologist (maybe me) determined that it was unlikely that any archaeological site would be impacted by any subsurface disturbance related to the elevation. Then a three page or so memorandum is signed off by several managers, eight or so copies are printed and distributed to all interested parties (we had six different Native American tribes that had to be notified of every determination) and presto, the property owner can proceed through the other offices at FEMA. We reviewed over 90,000 properties, so you'll have to excuse me if I don't remember this particular one.

[2naSalit]

4. 3rd storey walk-up!

Nice view.

Hope it's well insulated! Especially the floors.

[getagrip_already]

5. 3rd story walk-up in la......

Now that will cause a sweat when you get to your car and realize you forgot your keys......

Great views though.

[niyad]

7. As a pro-choice woman, I would not take that house if it were given to me, since

it is in Louisiana.

[True Dough]

8. Understood

Besides, you'd have this moron as your senator:

[niyad]

10. And "if we don't count African-American women" cassidy. Thank Goddess my

senators (Bennet and Hickenlooper) are somewhat sane.

[True Dough]

15. True

Voters in that state have made some horrible choices.

[onethatcares]

9. not being snarkey but

it looks like they spent a lot of money putting a doublewide on top of a bunch of concrete columns.

Nice lawn though.

[ret5hd]

11. On a long-ago trip to Jamaica...

we saw many houses on piers kinda like this, but shorter...maybe 8-10 feet high. Concrete piers, cinderblock walls, corrugated steel roof, steel "slats" that could be closed over the windows (kinda like horizontal blinds, but on the outside). About studio apartment size. You could park a car underneath if you wanted. They looked very sturdy to me. I remember thinking "Man, I could DO this!"

This though looks...wobbly.

[hunter]

12. Perhaps we could mass produce house lifts that work like car lifts.

I'm not sure how well floating houses would work in 100+ mph winds.

The most reasonable solution is, of course, to move away from places that flood. Sure, keep the land so long as the land exists, but don't build any permanent structures.

A lot of people would hate me if I was Emperor of the Earth. My flood insurance laws would be super strict.

"Sure, we'll pay this one claim, but you must move to someplace that's never going to flood. There will be no more flood insurance for you or for this property, and it will not be rebuilt."

We'd also be figuring out how to move entire communities, maybe structures and all, before the floods come.

With global warming the rising seas will be relentless. The rain storms will be fierce. If we are not proactive there will be chaos.

[WhiteTara]

14. add an elevator and all is good.

[Akoto]

16. All the joy of having a second floor, without paying for a ground floor! nt

[rsdsharp]

17. It's a ranch. Of course it's a ranch; it's all on one level.

If you can get there.

[FakeNoose]

20. So the 2-car garage goes underwater if they ever get flooded

Hmmm ...

Wouldn't it just be smarter and cheaper to relocate AWAY from the coast?