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   >>>>> I have done quite a bit of work out of state, but have always worked   
   >>>>> along with architects who are licensed in those states.   
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   >>>> Me too, nine states currently.   
   >>>> I don't work with anybody, 'cept the client.   
   >>>> Katrina is big time.   
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   >>> ?South Carolina? ;)   
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   >> Not yet, will your sister be the first?   
   >> Maybe N Carolina soon, for my sister.   
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   > Cousin.  Well, I'm sending her all of the info everyone's been kind enough   
   > to provide in this thread, so we'll see ;)   
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   >> Been doing some houses along the coast of Texas, Mississippi and Alabama.   
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   > Ah - yup, good places to utilize the experience you got in Florida with   
   > hurricane resistance.  Kind of an interesting area.   
      
   You may remember my prediction that in 10 years or so the state will require   
   all homes constructed in a hurricane zone to be concrete domes.   
   Well that prediction is coming true in steps.   
   The insurance companies in the coastal states effected by Katrina are   
   refusing to insure new construction that is NOT concrete or are making the   
   premiums so high as to be untouchable.   
   So, my client came up with an idea and I brought it to fruition.   
   A completely concrete house that appears to be a conventional house from the   
   curb.   
   If you didn't know it, you would never assume it is completely concrete.   
   Also, I took it a couple steps further and knocked the client and the market   
   completely out by incorporating a few things that are simply stunning and   
   currently unavailable except in the very upper end of the residential   
   market.   
   In order to pull something like this together one has to have a precise   
   knowledge of codes and compliance and the ways to circumvent or eliminate   
   obstacles, things I have learned to be an expert at, through longterm   
   experience and paying attention.   
   You can call it a series of *Creative Concepts*. <----The name of my old   
   Florida company.   
      
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