HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Flooding rains on Kauai kept first ... says some of his neighbors were forced to evacuate. His house is on stilts so everything underneath, including cars, was lost.

After several rounds of repairs and patching, he turned to the Brillhart Architecture team to build a brand new Miami house on the same site. Located within Miami’s most extreme flood zone, the new ...

The entertainer and his wife Debbie McGee had hoped to raise half the house on to stilts after it was left devastated by floods last year. However, Wokingham district councillors decided that the ...

Many homeowners in flood-prone areas are required to elevate their homes to protect against flooding. Some homes are raised on stilts. Some homeowners create additional bedrooms or an apartment by ...

We’re already moving his stuff up to my house,” said River Road resident A.D. Andrews. Some residents have built their homes on stilts to offset flooding and save their property, but in a big ...

Some rural areas have been as badly affected as cities. Almost 100 people have reportedly died and 3,000 homes destroyed in a well-known tourist destination. Residents were already hard at work recove ...

more and more construction projects are returning to using traditional structures to deal with floods, such as stilts and buildings on barges or rafts. The amphibious house, built over a man-made ...

Sometimes, people build wooden houses beside lakes, rivers, or coastal areas on stilts. This helps protect them from floods and high tides. They can also catch fish from their front porch!