Florida homeowner lifts her home 24 feet in the air following the 2024 hurricanes.

The homeowner in Pinellas County, Florida, says she doesn't want to deal with flooding again but doesn't want to move.

The project, set to be completed in December, will cost a whopping… pic.twitter.com/CekyuYHrSa

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) May 25, 2026

Sign of the peak housing bubble in action......

If you dont want to pay exorbitant amounts for home insurance and you want to self insure….

AgBQ-00 said:

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Why does it look like she put it on stacks of pallets

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Beat me to it!

BlueSmoke said:

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AgBQ-00 said:

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Why does it look like she put it on stacks of pallets

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Beat me to it!

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It's not complete yet. They will be pouring concrete columns to support the house, as well as installing a new floor at the ground level

rocky the dog said:

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It would be a trailer!


ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They were probably able to get some federal assistance to do that.

In my mom's old neighborhood, it flooded during Harvey and again in Imelda (she had moved out by then) where none of the houses had flooded prior to those 2. We're guessing up and downstream development played a role, but those are just our guesses.

Anyway, a few of the houses on her street were able to get federal assistance to lift their houses like 6' or so, which put them out of the flood plain. I guess FEMA/the government looked at a one-time cost vs future costs with future floods and took the one-time (and probably higher) charge.

"a" house in Clear Lake?

There are dozens of them doing the same thing, especially in Nassau Bay. It does look strange at first, but I get it.

This is something I would definitely do, slapping lipstick on a pig and absolutely loving it.

AgDotCom said:

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"a" house in Clear Lake?

There are dozens of them doing the same thing, especially in Nassau Bay. It does look strange at first, but I get it.

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I think this one is kind of unique.

Teslag said:

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Typical GenZ OP. Spout off something with brazen confidence while being completely ignorant about a common and normal thing.

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Yeah my first thought was................I see you've never been to the coast

torrid said:

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There's a house on Clear Lake that did just the same thing. Lifted the whole thing up, garage and all. The garage doors are still there, albeit with a ten foot drop-off.

A few years ago when my father was sick in the hospital, I went on a walk to relieve stress and came across that house.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/cR5unMQgCtEaEyvz7

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And you get the expanded living area from the garage which doubles as an open air, covered patio.

She better get an elevator or those trips to unload from the grocery store run are going to be a bi***.

TacosaurusRex said:

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I don't understand the big deal. Where I grew up everyone lifted their houses, family friends outside of Lake Charles had their entire neighborhoods lifted after Katrina.

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How many have you seen lifted that high?

AgBQ-00 said:

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Why does it look like she put it on stacks of pallets

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Not pallets but cribbing.

Yep, these are wooden 6x6 placed cross wise as they lift up the house. They do this in Galveston all the time.

rocky the dog said:

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I've seen these in Mississippi as a "glamping" version of a deer blind.

Squadron7 said:

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Teslag said:

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Typical GenZ OP. Spout off something with brazen confidence while being completely ignorant about a common and normal thing.

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Boomers are the only thing that white people are allowed to blame their problems on.

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Ha. True.

Rapier108 said:

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TacosaurusRex said:

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I don't understand the big deal. Where I grew up everyone lifted their houses, family friends outside of Lake Charles had their entire neighborhoods lifted after Katrina.

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There isn't one, other than some people need a new reason to hate "boomers," usually out of jealousy and a need to blame boomers for all of their problems.

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The grief towards boomers is basically two things. The first is when they constantly lecture us about how they "made it" and it's nowhere near as easy now as it was for them. I remember my first salaried job and my mom said "what are you complaining about, I made the same amount just out of college." And when I adjusted for inflation it was well over $100k in today's purchasing power. Also, her degree was in political science which wouldn't be nearly as valuable today. Back then, if you had any degree whatsoever you could get a good job. So there's also some buyers remorse with being pushed into going to college.

The other issue is the refusal to do anything about entitlements. We all know that we're getting hosed for these completely unsustainable programs. Most boomers will even admit that we're screwed. But then when you ask them if they'd be willing to cut it the answer is always no. So they admit they're screwing over their children and maybe even their grandchildren, but they gotta get theirs.

Helicopter Ben said:

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Rapier108 said:

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TacosaurusRex said:

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I don't understand the big deal. Where I grew up everyone lifted their houses, family friends outside of Lake Charles had their entire neighborhoods lifted after Katrina.

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There isn't one, other than some people need a new reason to hate "boomers," usually out of jealousy and a need to blame boomers for all of their problems.

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The grief towards boomers is basically two things. The first is when they constantly lecture us about how they "made it" and it's nowhere near as easy now as it was for them. I remember my first salaried job and my mom said "what are you complaining about, I made the same amount just out of college." And when I adjusted for inflation it was well over $100k in today's purchasing power. Also, her degree was in political science which wouldn't be nearly as valuable today. Back then, if you had any degree whatsoever you could get a good job. So there's also some buyers remorse with being pushed into going to college.

The other issue is the refusal to do anything about entitlements. We all know that we're getting hosed for these completely unsustainable programs. Most boomers will even admit that we're screwed. But then when you ask them if they'd be willing to cut it the answer is always no. So they admit they're screwing over their children and maybe even their grandchildren, but they gotta get theirs.

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90% of the non-lefty boomers you are talking about see the problems and would settle for getting out of the programs what we put in.

Back to the OP, sure, she might not flood...but hurricane force winds are sending that thing into the next county,

Jack Squat 83 said:

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Amazingly without all of the equipment we have nowadays:

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While it doesn't cover the aftermath, I highly recommend reading "Isaac's Storm" by Eric Larson which covers the Galveston hurricane of 1900. Aftermath meaning all of the repair and rebuild.

Broseph said:

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Yep, these are wooden 6x6 placed cross wise as they lift up the house. They do this in Galveston all the time.

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We did a few of these in the Ike programs and steered away from these in Harvey programs. My pucker factor of putting a house on cribbing and in some cases we had to not just lift but shift… who doggy. BTW high-tech lubricant uses to slide houses on girders was none other than Dawn dish soap.

Competitor of hours was up in Jersey doing one of these and it toppled over. Killed a worker and severely damaged the adjacent home. Not a cheap problem.

You get a house that high and expect some level of motion sickness in high winds. We hit 20ft elevation on some and one in mid-twenties on the San Jac river north of Houston (new construction). You cannot cross brace as you need to maintain free flow of water underneath. Nuts.

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It was cheaper to lift the house and rebuild the floors than to tear down and rebuild up high.

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This.