• Noble Shift@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    I live on a 29’ cruising sailboat and I’m in SFla and I moved into a mangrove swamp / waterway last night to ride out in, same one that I just left for the last storm a week ago.

    It’s been 10 days since the last storm that we saw 45+ knt winds in, and for 5 out of the last 10 days, at least here, it’s been raining and everything is WAY over-saturated.

    This storm is going to seriously fuck some shit up.

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          3 days ago

          Ay, stay safe out there. I’m not expecting it to be too bad for me, just hoping we don’t lose power for an extended period of time.

          Best wishes from 239.

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            Yeah man, it’s tense. When the non-natives start seeing the natives start sweating, they get neeerrrrrrvvvooouuuusssss.

            I don’t think there’s a drop of gasoline left east of Pensacola.

            … bourbon time

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      I know this isn’t a great thing to say due to housing costs, but I think you really need to find a different place to live than a boat because hurricanes are only going to get worse.

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        4 days ago

        I was recently looking at printed tiny houses. Some are pretty sturdy, and 0 carbon. They are pricier than tiny prefab but with no energy bills to speak of and sturdier construction, I’m wondering how they will fare in our area.

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          People who end up moving into tiny houses often regret it because they don’t really consider what ‘tiny’ means (things like not being able to cook a really nice meal because your kitchen is so small or just the inconvenience of having to go up and down a ladder at night if you need to use the bathroom).

          The online real estate resource polled more than 2,264 U.S. adults about what they wish they had done differently with their current housing. A whopping 44 percent of participants had housing regrets, and the biggest regret among homeowners had to do with size. One in three homeowners said they wish they had chosen a larger home, compared to only nine percent who wished they had downsized.

          https://www.countryliving.com/real-estate/news/a44021/tiny-house-regret/

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            Thanks for your reply. Meals wouldn’t be an issue. I’d be cooking dinner for my child and their partner at their place, so they wouldn’t have to worry about dinner and washing up, after work, and the model I’m looking at is single floor. I was more wondering about sturdiness in bad weather.

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                  Steel frame construction with tstud sub structure and full insulation envelope clad in brick.

                  Or do a monolithic dome tiny house.

                  Both would be sturdy as hell and very energy efficient, which addresses climate change better than insulating a Home Depot shed.