Are Amphibious Homes the Solution to Flooding?

I've thought about this several times and it seems like it could be a workable solution although it has it's drawbacks. Pretty soon we may not have a choice.

Just make sure it,s chained to a foundation so you don,t end up living in the next town over.

#1 don't build in a flood plain, #2 if you do build your home on stilts, #3 if you do build in a flood plain & don't build accordingly don't expect the gov't & tax payers to bail yor butt out.

About time someone decides to try this idea, if you ask me.

When the last great flood, called 100 year rain, happened near us in Santa Clarita, a few years ago, the area that was most flooded was where they had mobile homes. That was because the flood insurance didn't cover building homes on the edge of the river. There is a reason not to build in unsafe areas.

Exactly & the county, state shouldn't have allowed building there.

more fast and quick solution to all what ever~~~~

Maybe not as crazy as it seems. First two floors submersable and living space with all "soft" material on the third.

I don't know, it's interesting and better than living on a boat I guess. But there are other ways of dealing with this too. I'd say relocation but UK is a rather small island with a very large and growing population.

Do not build in flood plains and then expect to be bailed out when the rains come.....

Exactly.

If you live in an ateas where flooding is that prevalent shouldn't the houses in that area already have ways to help with that that don't break the bank? Or at the very least M O V E.

It's seems like you could anchor off a house boat on dry land for a lot less.

No, get them off the coasts, people may love to live on the water, but tax payers either directly through government kickbacks, or back door through higher insurance rates shouldn't pay to constantly rebuild homes on/near the water.

or you can build your house on stilts and live in style.
screw the environment!

Why are you living in a flood plane to begin with ?

Wind blows hard, earth quakes and shifts, fires burn hot, snow buries, melts and slides. I don't really don't think there's anywhere you can hide from Mother Nature if she wants to find you.

Living on a barge may take some adaptation, but it's nothing new. I know a guy that routinely vacations on a lake in northern Minnesota. His family has had a cabin and several islands in their family for several generations, but building code restrictions are just this side of ridiculous. Property owners are allowed ramps for winter storage of boats on their islands, so we found an older steel hulled, 50' cabin cruiser and gutted the thing of engines and now it sits among the rocks and pines as a stationary living quarters, ready to float at a moment's notice. The two engines, Ford 427 dry sumps, paid for the whole project and left us a tidy sum in beer money to boot.

Lots of folks live in homebuilt house boats on lakes in the south and in marinas all over the U.S. If the need is there, adapt. $2,400,000 seems a little steep to me for living in a barge that bumps up against your Dutch neighbor.

During a hurricane they would have to ship it back from Ohio.

It is agood idea but there is nothing new about it the Dutch have been dealing with ut fo years now and have floating comunitys. Check out the following website. http://dornob.com/75-prefab-f...

Good Idea but this isn't the solution..

No, not living in the frigging flood plain is the solution to flooding. They've known that for centuries and it still persists. Um, why?

So, that I have a question for you!

Where should we Dutch go then?
We are more than 16.000.000 on a small peace of land.

We don't have the luxery of a lot of open space to go too like you have!

Lot of money to pay just to find out that it didn't work so great. The water can only rise 8ft before the house becomes free floating. It floats off it's base, what does it cost to get it repositioned again after the water goes down and all the house plumbing has broken. In flood zone areas it's best to build like they do in Venice.

I see the concept and I bet I can build it for less.

What about tidal waves?

Not exactly lame, but I wouldn't live in one.

Overpriced solution to a problem...

I remember a few years back where this guy owned farmland inside the levees of the Mississippi River up north a bit -- around Missouri or so... He chose to build basically a house that was on a river barge and the barge had a large pylon on each corner where it could slip up and down when the water rose during floods. I suspect that was a lot cheaper than this solution.

This is actually a REALLY neat and innovative idea!

Nothing new!

Look at this:

Coool stuffff.

Awesome idea. And 1 of the other dudes had another cool idea. Razed on some type
of structure. Like you see in Asia.

It would save on recovery costs and damage.

Build your house on stilts like most cultures that regularly deal with flooding do.

This is called common sense.

What we have here in America is called FEMA. It is not of the common sense variety.

I want my house to not play bumber cars with other houses in a flood

Such houses are available in the United States for far less.

We ave some really nice floating houses around where I live. They look just like a regular house, and no grass to mow.