Raise the roof.

limp said:

Are you close to the coast?

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We are about 150 miles from the coast but only about 40 miles from Lake Maurepas and Lake Ponchatrain. All the rivers around here drain that way so when a storm hits it backs up water. In 2016 we had about 30+ inches of rain in 3 days. Water had no place to go.

The carport where the 66 is will go up with the house while the concrete stays. So they will replace the posts with taller ones. That is on an addition to the our house where my dad lives. It's a little apartment we had built for him. The carport on the main house will be lifted with the rest of the house and will have an incline driveway to access.

To raise it they use a series of hydraulic jacks. Near as I can tell they dig tunnels to place the jacks in precise places and use a diesel engine to run the hydraulics. Once in the air they install I-beams to be the main support and a locking pier system they drive into the ground with the jacks. There a few houses around here that have been raised, a lot of them after Katrina. When we moved here we were in a non hazardous (500 year) flood zone. In 2012, FEMA changed the maps and we are now in a special flood zone A. All of the house construction they do around here now is hauling in a bunch of dirt and build houses on the mounds. That just pushes water on those of us who were above basic flood elevation 30 years ago when this house was built but it's below the flood elevation now by 2 feet.

They have tunneled pretty far under the house now. I'm tempted to hop in a hole and take a look but its pretty muddy. I'll have to see if it dries out the next few days. Will look something like this.