House Jenga gone wrong

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In my area they have been raising the existing houses down by the  shore to avoid flood damage like we had after the last few hurricanes.  They put big steel beams under them then slowly raise them on wooden cribbing that resembles a giant Jenga game then lower them onto cement piers    they build.  They always look like they are going fall and finally one did and less than a mile from my house.

https://www.wtnh.com/news/connecticut/new-haven/home-under-construction-collapses-in-milford/1318218241

[Yuri Bezmenov]

Sounds like the house had been structurally weakened before they even tried to lift it.

It's just common sense that if you try to lift something that has been compromised, that it will shift if you try to lift it.

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The houses down there were all seasonal beach cottages up until not all that long ago.    I have been in and under a lot of them and have always been amazed they made it though the storms.  The decks from  two of them where at the end of my street after Sandy

[Icequeen]

Wow. They jacked it up pretty high, I'm surprised they haven't lost more that way.

[Queen Victoria]

Did Captain Obvious write the article?  "It was determined raising the home was no longer safe when the home collapsed to the ground below."

Raising houses in New Orleans and the surrounding area is old hat.  Abry Brothers has been doing it since 1840.

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They did a three story one higher than around the corner last year I was sure was going to have some issues but it turn out fine

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Did Captain Obvious write the article?  "It was determined raising the home was no longer safe when the home collapsed to the ground below."

Raising houses in New Orleans and the surrounding area is old hat.  Abry Brothers has been doing it since 1840.

They have only been doing it on a regular basis around here the last 20 years or so and most of them were done by the same guy up until after Hurricane Irene

[Queen Victoria]

Most of the house raising here is about 3 feet or so.  But then we have levees and pumps and prayers.

[DirtDawg]

My uncle (or step uncle, if I must) built a home on South Padre Island, a place which sees many storms, including hurricanes, etc,  When he built it, instead if using about eight little skinny things that look like pillars, he used around thirty, eight foot tall things that more resembled pyramids than skinny sticks.

He then built in the under area, with "outdoor living spaces" for when the weather was nice,  but the entire house was heavily built with a great deal of steel and every joint was reinforced with steel hangers and cross turnbuckles inside the walls. I am pretty sure if his house fell, it would just go "CLUNK!"  and it would have been fine.

Kind of sad to think that someone put hopes and dreams into that compromised structure.
 

[Queen Victoria]

My uncle (or step uncle, if I must) built a home on South Padre Island, a place which sees many storms, including hurricanes, etc,  When he built it, instead if using about eight little skinny things that look like pillars, he used around thirty, eight foot tall things that more resembled pyramids than skinny sticks.

He then built in the under area, with "outdoor living spaces" for when the weather was nice,  but the entire house was heavily built with a great deal of steel and every joint was reinforced with steel hangers and cross turnbuckles inside the walls. I am pretty sure if his house fell, it would just go "CLUNK!"  and it would have been fine.

Kind of sad to think that someone put hopes and dreams into that compromised structure.
 

Texans know how to build.