06-24-2010, 12:04 AM
Give that Man a Chunky Bar! 
Sand on top of coral and crumbly sand stone ... the highest elevation around here (Gulf Coast side just east of Fort Myers) is about twelve feet above sea level (well, 35 feet if you are on a "fly-over" ... an over-pass that is just locally over the cross street.)
But you are right on ... this is basically a big sand bar with houses built on slabs. Building code here requires the roof joists to be metal-strapped to the slab ... you know ... hurricanes!
hock: 
Sand on top of coral and crumbly sand stone ... the highest elevation around here (Gulf Coast side just east of Fort Myers) is about twelve feet above sea level (well, 35 feet if you are on a "fly-over" ... an over-pass that is just locally over the cross street.)
But you are right on ... this is basically a big sand bar with houses built on slabs. Building code here requires the roof joists to be metal-strapped to the slab ... you know ... hurricanes!
hock:
biL
Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
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Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln