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No, why would you want a 15' raised slab? Build the house on piers, leave the slab on grade. You can install break away walls on the ground floor so the house will "look" fairly normal and you'll even have some usable space down there. Keep all the main parts of the house on the 2nd floor on top of the first floor assembly and you're good to go. Surge comes in, your walls break away around your garage, damage is minimal, house survives. Easy, it just cost a bit more to build this way and you become more limited in your architecture.

absolutely incorrect. You can build homes that are essentially surge proof. You sink reinforced concrete piers into the bedrock, raise the first floor above the surge zone, and install break away walls on the ground level. As long as you keep your utilities above the surge zone, even a catastrophic flood would do minimal damage to a house built this way. What you can't do is build a normal slab on grade home and expect it to survive storm surge.

Ian has put its foot down, landfall looks like it'll be within the hour just north of Charleston.

building codes absolutely work. You can always sink piers deeper and raise the first floor higher if you're trying to keep a building safe from storm surge. You can always reinforce roofs and walls so they can withstand cat 5 winds. It just takes more money, but really not THAT much more. I do firmly believe that any building in a surge prone area should have to be self insured though.

This is my biggest problem with the way the NHC/MEDIA informs the public on hurricanes. You always hear "forecasted to make landfall at xxxx location at xxxx wind speed". People don't have the patience or understanding to look at the cone or listen to a forecast discussion about possible strengthening beyond the forecast intensity. I would much rather the forecast to be simply to read out the locations within the cone of uncertainty, and to give percentages on possible strength at landfall. If they know they can't predict the exact landfall location and strength at landfall, they need to stop telling people that information like they can.

what's the best way to see if it's warm or cold core? I know the models have a phase diagram that will tell you, but is there empirical data you can look at?

Is Ian still technically a tropical cyclone at this point? Definitely looks extratropical.

population control, I'm all for it

Low tide was midnight, hightide is 6 pm, we're closer to hightide than lowtide. The difference here isn't much though, like a foot and a half

his live feed went dead after he broke into someone's house on the ocean.... he might be dead

new recon has just reached Ian's CDO, we should be getting an eye penetration in the next 30 minutes or so

that doesn't mention any type of official landfall

You can see the crazy mesovortices bouncing around inside the eye on visible, that must be what they're talking about hitting in the eye.

The brown ocean effect won't save Ian from all that dry air that it's going to wrap into its circulation later today. We should actually see Ian weaken faster than normal when compared to other landfalling hurricanes in Florida.

any other live streams out there?