Yikes - Potentional Major Hurricane towards Louisiana

[El caliente]

Originally Posted by Holladay

Why don't they make the building codes for the houses to be on stilts?

All the houses on Florida's east coast are required to be raised. They are quite strict.

I can’t speak for other places, but in New Orleans most houses have been raised since Katrina. As a matter of fact, insurance companies won’t touch you if you have been in a flooded area and haven’t raised your home. There are entire regions outside of the levee protection and flood walls that are uninsured because they either aren’t raised, or are in such a bad spot insurers won’t touch them. So yes, many homes that experienced flooding in the last have been raised.

Regarding some of the buildings and older properties that have been destroyed (theres a picture circulating of an old building that Louis Armstrong used to work at that toppled over), those buildings can’t be raised. They should, but the historical district doesn’t want them altered from their natural state. They are asking for problems by enforcing that, but it is what it is, and I’m not crying over it. We love our history in New Orleans. From our culture to our historical sites, we want to preserve them as much as possible, sadly, in that process stupid stuff like the aforementioned happens and things fall apart. Cest la vie.