There is nothing I can do about the situation.
Here is the situation. I am going to deliver a flood cert to a couple who is trying to sell their house. Its in a flood zone. It was built in 1968 (pre firm). It was, until this past July, in flood AE 10, its now in VE 12. It has a full basement, which is where all the mechanicals are. The basement has an elevation of 8.4' NAVD 1988. There are no flood vents.
I got a bad feeling this isn't gonna work out to well once the buyers get a flood quote...ugh.
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it's a little grass shack like this one:
I wanna go back to my little grass shack
In Kealakekua, Hawaii
I wanna be with all the kanes and wahines
That I knew long ago
I can hear the old guitars a-playing
On the beach at Ho'onaunau
I can hear the old Hawaiian saying
"Komo mai no kaua ika hale welakahao"
It won't be long 'til my ship will be sailing back to Kona
A grand old place that's always fair to see
I'm just a little Hawaiian and a homesick island boy
I wanna go back to my fish and poi
I wanna go back to my little grass shack
In Kealakekua, Hawaii
Where the humuhumunukunukuapuaa goes swimming by
Where the humuhumunukunukuapuaa goes swimming by
It won't be long 'til my ship will be sailing back to Kona
A grand old place that's always fair to see
I'm just a little Hawaiian and a homesick island boy
I wanna go back to my fish and poi
I wanna go back to my little grass shack
In Kealakekua, Hawaii
Where the humuhumunukunukuapuaa goes swimming by
Where the humuhumunukunukuapuaa goes swimming by
Hope your client isn't the "Kill the Messenger" type. 😉
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Nice poem HC! Thanks and Aloha
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That was a hit song about 55 years ago. Not sure why it was so popular, but it was a real catchy tune.
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Aloha, 55 years ago no wonder I am clueless;-)
Thank you for the youtube video post. As always, Hawaiian songs just relaxes you the moment you listen to it.
I usually won't even fill it out if I discover they're in, so as to minimize the cost to them.....Unless of course they really want it completed. Seems like an exercise in futility at that point though.....
They need the data so that the insurance rate can be adjusted to reflect the true risk. Otherwise the insurer can put them in the highest rate allowed. Far better to be charged the correct rate than the worst.
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> Aloha, 55 years ago no wonder I am clueless;-)
> Thank you for the youtube video post. As always, Hawaiian songs just relaxes you the moment you listen to it.
That song is MUCH OLDER!! I remember my parents and some of their friends singing that little ditty in the early 1950s and it was a movie short (3 minutes) in 1942 as well as in the 1934 short below.
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If you trust Wikipedia "Little Grass Shack in Kealakekua, Hawai?i was a popular song written for the July 4th canoe races in Kona in 1933."
And I thought I was old
Had the Earth cooled yet when you were born, Dallas?
That 100% correct.
:good:
Is this a fully below grade basement?
what is the LAG?
Jim
Is this a coastal flood hazard zone? From the elevations it looks like it may be.
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Wikipedia is correct (according to a Kona native...).
A humuhumunukunukuapuaa ?
Found a picture of one....what a beautiful fish. How someone was able to squeeze that name in a song, I don't know.
Basement is full below grade on all sides. A typical New England home. 8 foot deep basement.
Sure is...In Milford, CT.
And I thought I was old
> Had the Earth cooled yet when you were born, Dallas?
Are you asking about initial cooling or The Year Without a Summer? Does make a bit of difference you know.
Remember Alley Oop
The comic strip, not the caveman himself. A few months ago they spent about a month in the daily strip focusing on Oop and his time traveling buddy ending up in Switzerland in 1816 during that odd climatological event. A young lady saw the two odd characters doing weird things so she followed them. Eventually they spoke to one another. Then Oop took a great fall and was essentially dead. His buddy whipped out his modern day defibrillator and shocked Oop back to life. The young lady's name was Mary Shelley. Thus, her spark of creativity for the famous Frankenstein story.
At least, that's how it played out in the funny papers.
> Basement is full below grade on all sides. A typical New England home. 8 foot deep basement.
what is the LAG?
