Apparently, the NY Times did not get the memo that the “science” of anthropogenic global warming, natch, “climate change,” has collapsed: Shifting Soil Threatens Homes’ Foundations
STEVEN DERSE, the owner of a corporate travel business in Nashville, cannot feel his house move, but he can hear it. “It’s an eerie creaking sound,†he said, and it echoes throughout his two-story Georgian-style house.
It started two years ago when a severe drought contracted the soil beneath the foundation, which caused it to crack and sink, pulling the house down with it. The noise has continued intermittently, becoming more insistent last year when flooding pushed the already compromised foundation and house back upward.
This seesawing effect was noisy and expensive. Mr. Derse has spent more than $10,000 to install subterranean piers to stabilize his foundation, and he expects he will have to install more to prevent further cracking and crumbling. “You lose your sense of security,†he said. “You love your home and then it literally turns on you.â€
You know what the problem is going to be, right?
His is not the only house buffeted by shifting soil. Extreme weather possibly linked to climate change, as well as construction on less stable ground, have provoked unprecedented foundation failures in houses nationwide. Foundation repair companies report a doubling and tripling of their business in the last two decades with no let-up even during the recession
It’s nice that they mentioned construction on “less stable ground (no mention of the New Madrid Seismic Zone just to the west),” but, you know the major focus is on man-caused “climate change.” I wonder how they will spin the flooding the Upper Midwest is bracing for in a month or two?
I see the Sahara Desert is greening up due to natural climate change: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/07/090731-green-sahara.html
And I believe the New Madrid zone is well overdue for its next quake.
yeah and termites in New England and no snow in Vancouver.