Hurricanes and Earth Hum — mentioned by chiph

Sun, 12 May 2019 01:33:31 GMT

You need to get the house off the ground to allow the storm surge to pass underneath. 15 feet (5 meters) is about what you should plan for. You would need concrete piers going down 40+ feet (13 meters) to provide enough shear strength to protect against the wind load and also the sand erosion that will happen. Something to consider is that all that weight up high (if you elevate a brick house somehow) will cause the house to function as an inverted pendulum. The wind in a hurricane isn't constant - it has both infrasound and pressure waves[1] in the audible range and if it happens to match…

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Hurricanes and Earth Hum — mentioned by chiph