[TheForge] Is anyone on-line ? OT: Washed away?

[Andrew Vida]

On 11/6/2012 1:18 PM, Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer wrote:
> The "cost-effective" part is the chancre.

Consider a screw-pile foundation.  At about $1500 per, and that is for 
domestic-strength piles, I'd bet a foundation for a 2500 sq. ft. house 
would be at least $100K... probable more - a lot more in fact, given 
what it would be expected to withstand.  "Commercial" grade screw piles 
are probably 10x that cost, but you'd need fewer of them.  Then what?  A 
great poured ferro-cement shell.  Windows would be very costly as well 
if you expect them to withstand such forces, and even then...  One 30' 
wind-driven wave and even that is gone.

Now, when someone develops practical and cheap antigravity, you can put 
up whatever flimsy piece of garbage residence you want and just fly it 
to gentler climes until the storm passes.