Here is one way to do it - raise it up about 16' - this house will be jacked up about 2' - a platform built - then the house will be raised - ...this is one of our ongoing projects. I guess technically, the house will still be in the floodplain but the finish floor will be above the base flood. I think I would have built somewhere else.:-O 
Is the woman of the house named Jane?
It'll look like a treehouse. The resident will be able to swing on a rope, Tarzan style, to get from door to car.
That'll be just about the right height for the next hurricane that sweeps through.
Saw a lot of that when we visited New Orleans after Katrina in 2007.
Lots of concrete columns going in with the house on stilts waiting to be set.
Could you post some "after" photos when its up on those columns?
sure will Dave
That is what is going on here - FEMA assistance
What about the newer house next door?
Also a good defense against wandering mobs of zombies.
what you are seeing is a detached garage - they are going to leave it as is
Pretty common along the Russian River in Northern California... 30 years or more IIRC.
Makes a great ground floor shop or garage.
Yup. Some people get some strange ideas in their heads. In 2007 we had a massive flood. One fellow filled in the basement, then raised the main floor of the house about 9 feet. The problem, in my opinion, is that he spent more money raising the house by far than what the house was worth. The flood zone stretched such that he would have to boat a minimum of 3-4000 feet to hit dry land. Absolutely no way to get in or out otherwise.
The best is when there is a brick slab house with a large carport that got lifted w/ the FEMA money. Now that house is about 10+ above the ground and that carport is now a large elevated porch.
I have seen a few of these south of Houma and in Cameron Parish.
from the post a while back ago- they did it- here are some follow pictures
Great pics. I am going to show these to the next client that cries about my fees for a LOMA.