Sentence examples for elevated homes from inspiring English sources

As the oceanfront recedes by storm erosion in a rising sea level, elevated homes will eventually be destroyed, as they now occupy the surf zone.

"When I moved in, you had to be 20.5 feet above mean sea level, which these all are," he said as he drove by elevated homes on concrete pylons and wooden platforms.

Meanwhile, Mr. Joseph watched as people who had never had flood insurance, or who had waited longer to rebuild, moved into their repaired elevated homes.

After Hurricane Katrina sent waters high enough to flood her elevated home, she spent nearly a year retrieving the scattered coffins disinterred by the deluge and returning the dead to their places of rest.

News that the Museum of London plans to move from its half-hidden elevated home among the bewildering walkways of London Wall to the presently derelict parts of Smithfield market lately saved from demolition serves as a reminder of what a treasure it is.

Moncado, a 46-year-old farmer and father of four, didn't know he was being watched as he climbed down the creaky ladder attached to his elevated home that was built on stilts to avoid the annual flooding from the nearby riverbank.

The elevated home cage of each rat was positioned at one end of the beam.

While PM and CO concentrations were somewhat elevated in homes without chimneys as compared to rural homes with chimneys, we did not see a significant difference in these concentrations, indicating that locally constructed chimneys were minimally effective at reducing exposures to biomass smoke in our population.

Furthermore, we found evidence of a rebound effect in which, after a prolonged period of elevated in-home activity there appeared to be period of suppressed activity.

The redeeming counterpoint to all this turmoil, the novel hints, is a loyalty that goes beyond less elevated ties to home and family.

"Burn" voices a musical cornucopia of post-recession frustrations ranging from elevated joblessness and home foreclosures, to corrupt civic and religious organizations, the bank bail-out and police brutality.