Floating houses

[celticdragonfly]

selenite shared a link with me on a Wall Street Journal article on this, and then when I wanted to post found another that doesn't require membership.
Floating Dutch houses

Elizabeth Moon wrote a short story about this, I'm not sure how many years ago, it's in a collection of hers. That one was set in the Mississippi river valley. I read it and enjoyed it. (We have the collection - but it's downstairs, and I'm still on a no-stairs promise to selenite

I think this is tremendously sensible. As I was saying earlier to faxpaladin, this is one of the fun things about being a science fiction fan, when you see the stories start becoming reality.

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Holland has an advantage

[p-o-u-n-c-e-r.livejournal.com]

The coast of Holland doesn't get hurricanes quite as frequently as Florida, Louisiana, etc.

That said, I've always wanted a Travis McGee style houseboat. One would have to steam it away from the path of storms, though.

[joyeuse13.livejournal.com]

A Dutch co-worker remarked to me last month that we should be looking to the Netherlands to learn how to build levies. Reclaiming land from the sea is, after all, what they do.

[msminlr.livejournal.com]

The anthology title is LUNAR ACTIVITY.
Living as close as I do to The River, that one stuck in my mind when I first read the book. Don't recall the actual story title, though.