Re: Am I hard hearted????

Posted by Billy NY on August 28, 2016 at 09:29:25 from (104.228.35.235):

In Reply to: Am I hard hearted???? posted by JD Seller on August 28, 2016 at 08:43:12:

Part of it is building to deal with it, if possible, but no it makes no sense, however many populated areas have been built in less than ideal places, that flood. Its easy to form that opinion, using the cut and dry facts that low lying areas flood, and that structures have been built in those areas that will not tolerate flooding. It's hard to figure why in the first place, but its been done since way back when. Mother nature will always win. The Jersey shore is one place that comes to mind, having lived there in a house on blocks, across the street is the Atlantic Ocean, which at times can be very destructive if you are in its path. I've been evacuated several times in the winter when I was there. My solution was to move. Downed power lines, horizontal falling snow, flooding, finding a place until its over, no fun at all.

To build or rebuild on the Jersey shore requires a lot more than typical construction per the present codes. The money people invest in these nice homes, just to have a view of the beach and ocean is staggering. I lived in a 4 room shack, that would have floated away in a flood. It's still there today though. Amazing. I'll take the eastern woodland environment, on a well drained hill over a low land area. We also seem to have abundant water supplies in our aquifer. Water be it flooding or otherwise will always be a source of problems for any society.

We saw that its not only low lying areas, dump 10" of rain on us here and you'll get incredible damage, like we saw in '11 with Irene, that was no joke, and likely more than a 100 year event. Lots of structures considered to be built in safe places were destroyed, bridges, culverts too. Our town rebuilt some of them, if this repeats, what they built will not hold up, for whatever reason the cycle continues. They did not build anything more substantial from what I saw, so maybe its based on 100 year events.

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