Spring Flooding on Alaska's Kuskokwim River

Reportedly a dozen homes were flooded by the rapidly rising waters. At least most of the homeowners have lots on which they might rebuild a small hut to survive the brutal winter just a few months away.

http://www.adn.com/2011/05/11/1857898/kuskokwim-flood-rose-so-fast-residents.html

Unlike Mississippi River floods that predictably increase vertically instead of horizontally because of extensive trapping of waters within dykes or levies, Alaskan rivers may experience ice jams after break up in unforseen locales.

Maybe the Louisianna delta could recover a little if more levies were removed and new low cost floating dome homes were constructed behind inland breakwaters.

A new industry might manufacture curved plywood dome sections and curved beams in order to allow construction of a very strong, steel reinforced wood chip composite dome on a well-engineered round trimaran hull-base with hurricane anchors and quick release cables set in the ground in order to allow the home to survive 200 m.p.h. winds from tornados. A retirement dome for two should sell for 25,000 dollars or less minus lot.

Probably no political candidates support low-cost floating homes for the delta that would be designed to float upon river flooding.

Roofing the domes would be a two-stage process that would be temporally extended. Stage one is a complete coating and seam taping with three rolled on coatings of fiberglass resin or marine epoxy. As the dome would then be water protected the second roofing material could be accomplished with a variety of aesthetic mediums.

Like the hull of a small boat their should be frame reinforcing around the circular hull at three levels. The dome should be raised off the level of the deck a few iches and thoroughly coated with resin to prevent water damage to the curved planking.

I am not aware of any such simple 4 hour prefab dome home manufacturing plant in the Mississippi Delta region or the Kuskokwim, yet perhaps a market exists for low-cost retirement and enviropnmentally durable, solar panel coated green housing even in a fatuous housing market.