What if flood-threatened homes could float?

What if flood-threatened homes could float?

Buddy Blalock stands on the porch of his floating house at Old River Landing. (Photo by Rachel Nederveld/The Current)Elizabeth English has always been interested in water. As a child on a farm in New Jersey, one of her favorite games was to turn on the hose and make dams and diversions as the water ran down her driveway. With a background in architecture and structural engineering, Elizabeth came to Louisiana to teach at Tulane’s architecture sc…