Best home designs for beating hurricane season?
Question:Anyone know what home designs - other than bunkers - work best for getting through hurricane season with little or no damage?
Answers:
Geodesic dome houses.
Geodesic homes can withstand extremely high winds. A home with a basement is not exactly safe. With hurricanes you not only have high winds but flooding. Major flooding New Orleans for example. If you were in a basement you would be under water sometimes in a matter of seconds. Dome homes are not expensive to build and their design makes them energy efficient, highly wind and storm resistant, earthquake resistant. There are several varieties of Dome homes the Buckminster Fuller design is a soccer ball geodesic design, one of the original and strongest designs. Very aerodynamic much like a soccer ball. Some designs are elevated to prevent flooding.
what about the geodesic dome made of fiber reinforced concrete over a re-bar frame.
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you need a house with a hurricane wall and one of those basment like things where you can go underground and be safe from the hurricane or tornado
I would highly recommend you look at building a home with SIPS (structural insulated panels). They are lighter, more energy efficient and can withstand higher winds that the traditional "stick built" home.
In addition to reducing energy costs, structural insulated panels offer a structurally superior and hurricane resistant product for residents of Mississippi’s hard hit gulf coast. In order to avoid the massive devastation witnessed during Katrina, the Stennis Institute recommends SIP homes capable of withstanding hurricane force winds. Both in laboratory tests and during hurricane Charley, SIP homes have proven themselves capable of surviving the most aggressive storm conditions.
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I saw a house program in a hurricane area where the rich fellow had his very expensive home destroyed. He rebuilt in a domed concept, It had reinforced steal in a webbed dome and then covered in concrete I think. The front had stairway leading up to the front door. It had fountains on both sides. Anyway it was supposed to upstand the force of 250 mi. an hour winds. It looked adobe. Weirdest house show was the name I think!
First of all their are no hurricane proof houses,If the storm is a cat 5, it is best to leave your home,and go further inland.I have live through 4 hurricanes.One major and the rest minor.But you can always consult an architect or an engineer.Maybe FEMA, can give you ideas.
A dome, pyramid, or light house.
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