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<blockquote data-quote="Abbey" data-source="post: 89218" data-attributes="member: 179"><p>Marcie...I hate to say it (throwing stones at me is ok) but I feel the same way about people who build a house RIGHT on the coastline. I lived 11 years in Florida and knew more than one person who had the beautiful beachside house and rebuilt it more than once from hurricanes. This affects us all hugely on insurance rates.</p><p></p><p>We had a small river in the city I grew up in, as well as several large lakes surrounding the city. In 1972 there was a dam break and a huge flood insued. Not to mention the 300 people who were killed...the city was devastated. They formally declared that no one (actually it was most business like) could rebuild in the flood plain. That worked for about 10 years, but people tend to forget things like this. It has slowly rebuilt in that path to where you wouldn't really even realize it was a flood plain. They call it a 100 year flood plain, but that doesn't mean you have to wait 100 years before the next flood. It could be tomorrow.</p><p></p><p>Going through that flood at 13 years of age had a huge impact on me. I can still imagine the smell on EVERYTHING, the typhoid shots, no clean water...I just can't imagine why someone would go back to putting themselves in peril like that.</p><p></p><p>I'm off my soap box now. :smile:</p><p></p><p>Abbey</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Abbey, post: 89218, member: 179"] Marcie...I hate to say it (throwing stones at me is ok) but I feel the same way about people who build a house RIGHT on the coastline. I lived 11 years in Florida and knew more than one person who had the beautiful beachside house and rebuilt it more than once from hurricanes. This affects us all hugely on insurance rates. We had a small river in the city I grew up in, as well as several large lakes surrounding the city. In 1972 there was a dam break and a huge flood insued. Not to mention the 300 people who were killed...the city was devastated. They formally declared that no one (actually it was most business like) could rebuild in the flood plain. That worked for about 10 years, but people tend to forget things like this. It has slowly rebuilt in that path to where you wouldn't really even realize it was a flood plain. They call it a 100 year flood plain, but that doesn't mean you have to wait 100 years before the next flood. It could be tomorrow. Going through that flood at 13 years of age had a huge impact on me. I can still imagine the smell on EVERYTHING, the typhoid shots, no clean water...I just can't imagine why someone would go back to putting themselves in peril like that. I'm off my soap box now. [img]:smile:[/img] Abbey [/QUOTE]
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