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.