Texas DUers, how long before this Galveston house get washed to sea?

[Mizmoon]

Would you buy this house on the Gulf of Mexico or do you think it will get washed out to sea one of these days?

[jandrok]

1. It's a goner.

Definitely a wash-out at some point.

But hey, I'd be glad to rent that bad-boy for a week.

[Mizmoon]

3. I guess that's why it's cheap, ey?

:)

[jandrok]

7. You are co-rect!

Try and insure it. Go ahead, try.

Still, nice while it lasts, eh wot?

[hobbit709]

2. The only thing

I would buy on the coast is a cheap trailer. Then when the big blow comes, I'm not out any big money. The people that buy those high dollar condos are idiots.

[Mizmoon]

4. I guess insurance is a little hard to get on a thing like that

you know, something that is certainly going to wash away at some point ...

[Avalux]

5. It's a nice house BUT -

could be gone this summer. Any idea when it was built?

[Mizmoon]

6. no, just found it while wandering around homes.com

I was daydreaming of buying something someplace where there is no winter.

This place just looked so lovely, yet so precarious ...

[BikeWriter]

8. I live a few miles away on the Mainland, and...

yes, that house is endangered. :(

[Mizmoon]

9. It would be a happy few months to a few years, though

I assume that the houses on the canals are safer ... is that right?

[BikeWriter]

13. The ones on canals usually have bulkheads to protect...

against erosion. Those on the Gulfside beach can be undermined in one hurricane.

[XNASA]

10. Most of the houses in the Galveston Bay area are in peril.

That area is a soggy mess most of the time. Even the house we owned which was a about a mile from Galveston Bay was only about 6 feet above sea level and was sitting on landfill in the middle of a swamp.

Beach houses are usually not all that well built anyway. The garage and utilities are on the ground floor, living quarters upstairs.

It's good to be back on firm footing at 680 ft above sea level again.

[Mizmoon]

11. Your profile says Chicagoland

are you in Chicago now? That must have been quite an adjustment!

[XNASA]

12. I am a native Chicagoan.

But I lived in Clear Lake for 6 years. Any place I lay my hat, yadda, yadda......