Mr. Rackley and his teammate, Mr. Knight, hung out in the marina, nabbing fish that were noshing on the algae growing on the wood pilings.
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The Max Q, for example, is a hulking, 16-foot missile fabricated out of Sonotube, a cardboard cylinder normally used as a form for concrete pilings.
Storm surges of 15 feet caused entire homes to be swept off their foundations when water couldn't flow underneath, as properties built on pilings allow.
Mitigation experts expect the use of pilings and other elevation techniques to creep north along the coast as FEMA guidelines respond to the increasing occurrence of severe weather.
Homes that are built to exploit gorgeous views yet withstand severe storms and flooding require clever structural and soil engineering but also another key ingredient: elevation on pedestals or pilings sunk deep into bedrock.
Coast Guard records show the Seastreak Wall Street was involved in seven incident investigations between 2006 and 2010, including four in which it was damaged in collisions with stationary objects such as docks or pilings.
While the old pier was held up by wooden pilings, the new structure likely will be built with a mix of wooden and concrete supports and made to meet tougher standards set by Seaside Heights and the state.
Most of the collapses that have taken place over the last 10 years in a study done recently by engineers, about 85 percent of them were from some external cause like a flood that undercuts the pilings or a barge or a ship hitting them.
The first two bathrooms and their escorts will take a circuitous route through the borough to Brighton Beach, where plans call for using a military vehicle to tow the trailers out along fortified stretches of sand to the concrete pilings that will be their permanent homes.
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