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Shortly after moving into their home in St. Petersburg, Fla., Meghan Martin and her husband noticed a drawback to their new neighborhood. The quiet streets of Shore Acres, a leafy community bisected by canals, occasionally flooded. On some days it was easiest for Dr. Martin, a pediatric E.R. doctor, to reach the hospital by paddle board \u2014 a feat she once demonstrated in a widely viewed TikTok<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Martins settled into their one-story \u201cfixer-upper,\u201d painting the exterior cornflower blue and revamping the 1950s kitchen with new appliances and a herringbone backsplash behind the countertop. But they stopped short of a more radical renovation: the house lift. A handful of water-wary neighbors had pushed their living quarters eight to 10 feet in the air, adding space for a garage or storage underneath. The couple balked when they learned the cost could exceed the value of their home, which they bought in 2016 for $265,000. Besides, to their knowledge, the house had never severely flooded.<\/p>\n

Two <\/span>floods \u2014 and two rounds of ripping out drywall and throwing away sodden carpets and toys \u2014 later, the Martins reconsidered. This year, they put down a deposit on the cheapest option for raising their home \u2014 $375,000.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Buildings have long been lifted out of nature\u2019s path, especially in the historic quarters of flood-prone cities like New Orleans or Charleston, S.C. <\/strong>A century goes by and a beach erodes or a river bend changes course; then the floodwaters arrive. But as climate change intensifies rainfall and strengthens tropical storms, a newer generation of homes is facing the threat of repeat flood disasters. Whether in Florida, New Jersey or Texas, homeowners are deciding whether to shell out hundreds of thousands of dollars to build up.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The architect who designed the Shefmans\u2019 new space, which has a three-car garage and family area, took care to keep its look consistent with its 1960s original design. The home was only three inches above floodwaters when Hurricane Harvey struck in 2017.<\/span>Mark Felix for The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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In St. Petersburg, a city accustomed to narrow misses from major storms, house lifts were until recently an oddity. Comparisons to shoe boxes remain common, and the revised proportions would not probably fly in an architect\u2019s atelier. But now they\u2019re the norm.<\/p>\n

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Shortly after moving into their home in St. Petersburg, Fla., Meghan Martin and her husband noticed a drawback to their new neighborhood. The quiet streets of Shore Acres, a leafy community bisected by canals, occasionally flooded. On some days it was easiest for Dr. Martin, a pediatric E.R. doctor, to reach the hospital by paddle board \u2014 a feat she once demonstrated in a widely viewed TikTok.The Martins settled into their one-story \u201cfixer-upper,\u201d painting the exterior cornflower blue and revamping the 1950s kitchen with new appliances and a herringbone backsplash behind the countertop. But they stopped short of a more radical renovation: the house lift. A handful of water-wary neighbors had pushed their living quarters eight to 10 feet in the air, adding space for a garage or storage underneath. The couple balked when they learned the cost could exceed the value of their home, which they bought in 2016 for $265,000. Besides, to their knowledge, the house had never severely flooded.Two floods \u2014 and two rounds of ripping out drywall and throwing away sodden carpets and toys \u2014 later, the Martins reconsidered. This year, they put down a deposit on the cheapest option for raising their home \u2014 $375,000.Buildings have long been lifted out of nature\u2019s path, especially in the historic quarters of flood-prone cities like New Orleans or Charleston, S.C. A century goes by and a beach erodes or a river bend changes course; then the floodwaters arrive. But as climate change intensifies rainfall and strengthens tropical storms, a newer generation of homes is facing the threat of repeat flood disasters. Whether in Florida, New Jersey or Texas, homeowners are deciding whether to shell out hundreds of thousands of dollars to build up.The architect who designed the Shefmans\u2019 new space, which has a three-car garage and family area, took care to keep its look consistent with its 1960s original design. The home was only three inches above floodwaters when Hurricane Harvey struck in 2017.Mark Felix for The New York TimesIn St. Petersburg, a city accustomed to narrow misses from major storms, house lifts were until recently an oddity. Comparisons to shoe boxes remain common, and the revised proportions would not probably fly in an architect\u2019s atelier. But now they\u2019re the norm.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18969,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18967"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18970,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18967\/revisions\/18970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}