Interestingly enough, technocoly is begining to help in things like thils... I go to UC Berkeley, and one of the projects that they're using one of the supercomputers for is fire modeling to model an area and then predict where the fire will spread, and thus have a way to know where to best allocate the limited resources. This kind of modeling can use as much CPU power you can throw at it, so it's a good example of what supercomputers can be used for today.

I wish I could find a link to the article, as I found it interesting at the time... Good luck on your cabin. Natural disasters are dificult as there really is nothing you can do besides hope for the best.

Matthew