{"id":88160,"date":"2019-02-25T14:03:01","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T22:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/a-6-million-floating-home-that-can-withstand-category-4-hurricanes-is-now-a-reality-take-a-look-inside"},"modified":"2019-02-25T14:03:01","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T22:03:01","slug":"a-6-million-floating-home-that-can-withstand-category-4-hurricanes-is-now-a-reality-take-a-look-inside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/a-6-million-floating-home-that-can-withstand-category-4-hurricanes-is-now-a-reality-take-a-look-inside","title":{"rendered":"A $6 million floating home that can withstand Category 4 hurricanes is now a reality. Take a look inside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-6-million-floating-home-that-can-withstand-category-4-hurricanes-is-now-a-reality-take-a-look-inside.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"\">\n<li> After years of development, the housing startup Arkup has debuted a floating home that can withstand rising sea levels and Category 4 hurricanes. <\/li>\n<li> The home contains a hydraulic system that lifts it above water and anchors it during heavy winds. <\/li>\n<li> Arkup envisions a future where entire communities in Miami and other major cities are designed to float. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When the housing startup Arkup revealed its plan to build a floating, hurricane-proof yacht in 2017, South Florida had just witnessed the devastating effects of <a href=http:\/\/businessinsider.com\/category\/hurricane-irma-2017?r=US&IR=T > Hurricane Irma<\/a>, a Category 4 storm that destroyed <a href=http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/local\/community\/florida-keys\/article178222171.html > hundreds of residences<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s models were designed to weather a storm of that magnitude, but it would be another two years before they became a reality.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/floating-home-withstands-category-4-hurricanes-2019-2\">https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/floating-home-withstands-cat...2019&#45;2<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After years of development, the housing startup Arkup has debuted a floating home that can withstand rising sea levels and Category 4 hurricanes. The home contains a hydraulic system that lifts it above water and anchors it during heavy winds. Arkup envisions a future where entire communities in Miami and other major cities are designed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,15,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-habitats","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}