A friend in San Juan said his side of the island did ok.
The other side got smashed.
The other side got smashed.
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Yep. Last spring I was down there and one afternoon there was a pretty heavy downpour that lasted a few hours.........I didn't think much of it. Then I saw video of cars up to their windshields in water.La Isla Borinquen is a rock. Nowhere for the water to go cept down and out
to sea.
I still to this day can not believe I climbed down inside our h20 well to clean and check '12 deep once a month when I lived in CR on Carribean sideI remember paddling the rubber dinghy to get groceries for everyone on our street in Isla Verde, San Juan. We lived in between the 'mangle' and the beach in a semi-affluent area. Water was normally waist deep to wade through. All kinds of creepy crawlies lurking beneath the brown opaque surface.
happy slowly but surely. Contractor trouble. Finally found someone good but having to change plans to meet budget.What's the latest update?
They've had a good run of surf down there. I would have gone down last week except the surf forecast didn't look good enough for the cost of the flights so I didn't pull the trigger. As it turned out they had much better surf last week than the forecast had called for the week earlier. I'll probably go down to chase the first solid swell in the late January-early February timeframe.happy slowly but surely. Contractor trouble. Finally found someone good but having to change plans to meet budget.
too many people building and not enough contractors. Prices are nearly mainland prices. Of course not coastal California prices but looking at $130-150/sqft.
my engineer is currently working with the contractor to adjust plans and get the new permits issued and bank needs 45 days underwriting. Hooking to be done in a year.
was just down for a month and you wouldn’t have know a hurricane happened. Scored 3 days of surf. Was flat more or less and several days of torrential rain. Got a good day at Wildos and great day at pumping middles with less than 10 people out.
I missed the windows of good surf. It was pumping the 3 weeks before I arrived and been pumping since I left...I will be back down in the new yearThey've had a good run of surf down there. I would have gone down last week except the surf forecast didn't look good enough for the cost of the flights so I didn't pull the trigger. As it turned out they had much better surf last week than the forecast had called for the week earlier. I'll probably go down to chase the first solid swell in the late January-early February timeframe.
Cinder block with foundations, or straight up container structure bolted to cement platform?hahaha you know how it is! once you move you will worry about missing surf from the place you just left!View attachment 142275
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Updated floor plans for anyone interested in the design!
going to be a fully poured slab foundation with reinforced concrete blocks. Wire mesh between every layer of blocks and rebars every 2 blocks. 6 rebar’s on the structural columnsCinder block with foundations, or straight up container structure bolted to cement platform?
Yeah definitely hurricane proof...slab concrete roof with rebar reinforcement attached to the rebars on the block. Also using security windows and doors so shouldn't be any issues with storms!Hurricane sturdy. What kind of roof? Careful here, ours flew off in residential San Juan and took off like Hercules was playing Frisbee golf with it back in the mid 70's. And if memory serves correctly it was a solid concrete slab type roof. Never seen anything like that happen again in my lifetime.