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Originally Posted by Alchemy
Given these houses are built on frequently flooded land, whatever happened to he queenslander home built on stilts ?
With today's engineering you should be able to use steel poles for the supportnwhich will take a moderate "bash" and a bit of current.
Perhaps not if you are in the centre of an extreme hit but just flooding... One wonders.
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There are still plenty of Qld'er homes on stilts, problem now is many people have built in underneath them to make bigger living areas to keep up with the growing modern lifestyle and these now flood through causing alot more property damage than 74, as well as the massive influx of population growth from the other states over the last 20 years which has seen lots of property sub-divided up making it worse as well.
I think concerning the gravity of the situation the current emergency workers and those organising them"pollies" are doing a fantastic job and I will be taking a week off soon from my buisiness to go and help clean mud out of houses including houses of friends of mine.
My hats go off to those helping us out, at least our pollies did not stand around waiting like what happened after hurricane Katrina in the US.