Built America Magazine “And you’ve got to climb a flight of steps just to live in your house,” Jimmy says. “If you’re retired, that’s going to get challenging.” His solution is a hydraulically elevated steel- core home that can rise vertically — up to 15 feet — when storm surge threatens. “You spend 95% of your life on the ground,” he says. “Why live up in the air until you need to?” The elevation system lifts the home straight up using hydraulics, raising the structure vertically out of danger when floodwater approaches.
Behind the humor is a serious point: insurers are recalibrating risk in hurricane, wildfire, and flood-prone regions. Structural systems that reduce the reduce the likelihood of total loss change that equation. Resilience isn’t only structural. It’s financial. Elevating the Coastline Along parts of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Florida, many homes are elevated on are elevated on wooden stilts rated around 140 to 150 mph winds.
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