If you live near the ocean anywhere on earth:

After the last few weeks of Hurricane Harvey, and now Irma and behind that cat 4 Jose coming too I'm thinking that if you care about your home and don't want to have to rebuild or replace it or have to replace family members or them having to replace you, maybe you want to have a home at least 100 feet in altitude on a hill near the beach. maybe you want it to be cement reinforced concrete.

Because the way that Harvey and Irma and Jose are doing it looks like around the world your home may just wash away during the next 80 years sometime with you or your children or grandchildren in it. Also, the seas are all rising if you aren't at least 100 feet in altitude now days. We have already lost 8 20th century islands in the Pacific to recent seas rising already.

This is what my wife and I chose to do about 20 years ago now because Tsunamis especially on the Pacific Ocean because of being on the "Ring of Fire" because of Earthquakes 7.0 to 9.0 or bigger often create Tsunamis. So, though hurricanes don't usually come above Baja California 400 to 500 miles to our south we still live within 1 mile of the beach so it is an easy access but by doing this we don't have to worry about our home being washed away in a storm.

35,000 people died mostly from a Tsunami in Japan in 2011 and 250,000 people died in Indonesia, India and Thaland in 2004 from a tsunami.

However, when I go to Hawaii I always stay right on the beach there where I can run out of my hotel room with a mask and snorkel and go snorkeling or take a rental car to a better snorkeling site to swim with the tropical fish in the ocean there.

Also, living within 1 mile of the beach instead of on the beach here in California often means your home will cost 20% of what it would cost on the beach where it could easily be washed away one day. California beach front property is incredibly expensive. A well done property in California on the beach can cost you 5 million dollars to 20 million dollars by the way at present. IF you are in places like San Francisco or nearby the prices are skyrocketing right now on the beach because or rich techies from Silicon Valley.