Comments on: Why People Hate FEMA

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:13:31 +0000

Rook, the people in charge have no common sense. We built on stilts in some areas down here because of storm surge. You could “mound” the property, but the fill dirt is mostly sand, so it’s safer just to put down a concrete foundation and use metal or concrete pillars, so the storm surge passes freely under the house.

It’s great for storm surge, but the wind damage increases, and they are no place to be in a tornado.

Raise the height of the basement walls, it’s a simple solution that solves two problems.

Jill, people are now putting concrete “safe rooms” in new housing down here, but a basement is safer. Everyone builds with a basement in tornado country – as the lady said it’s insane not to. I’m sure that where there are codes, the codes include a basement.

Yes, if you move into a new home in California, you don’t have to worry about it coming down around your ears. Codes work.

By: cookie jill

cookie jill — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:18:54 +0000

Didn’t the Clinton Administration set some sort of standards about forcing developers to build cellars in the Tornado Section part of the Country? I recall they were saying that was one of the lessons that they learned after Andrew and the lackin’ King Georgie Bush the first’s lousy handling of the disaster…
I could be going crazy…I’ve been shaken yet not stirred today.

All I can say is THANK GOD FOR GOVERNMENT BUILDING STANDARDS…especially when things go shake, rattle and roll.

By: Rook

Rook — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:12:21 +0000

I absolutely can not believe the audacity of this administration. It really is all about doing everything possible to kill people.