Flood of '08

Water has indulated vast areas of the inland/midwest. Iowa, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, Kentucky and others. Some are saying that this is a 100 year, 500 year or even 1,000 flood, but what if its not? If global warming is shifting the jetstream and carrying more moisture from the gulf and pacific regions to the mid-west, might this not be signs of things to come?
It seems obvious that as much as we love living on the coast, along rivers and streams and at the lakes throughout our country,we are going to suffer tidal surges, floods, hurricanes and tornados. Maybe at high rates, greater intensities and increased levels of rainfall. If this is so, we need to change our building habits, choices of where to build and style of housing to meet these changing times.
With polaar icecaps, glaciers and the tundra melting, more water will be added to the seas and oceans. This will add to warming as winters become warmer due to not having a cold Siberian express pumping cold weather across the U.S. Leading to a possible inland sea extending from the Gulf coasts up the Mississippi, Ohio and Misouri Rivers.
As in other countries, we either build dikes or build on higher ground. Or we can stay where we are and build dome homes on stilts. This can raise a home above the levels of a flood of most proportians, decrease wind resistance during severeve storms such as Katrina or tornados that flaired up this year. Then all that we might lose would be our cars and laundry area/mechanicals which would be placed in the lowere level. These should be constructed of breakaway sections so that a surge can flow through/under a home and hopefully not effect the pilings/stilts and the living quarters on the second or higher levels