RE: Fires and Floods

Well I guess that is true- cause you haven't met me yet!

When I was shopping for this house, I went to the city and county offices
and looked at flood plain maps.... and also what was EVER on this land
prior. (didn't want to find it out it used to be a graveyard or waste dump!)
Some properties where eliminated due to my findings...

I also checked the 6 different plans for the proposed airport near here.
Watched for the runway directions....

And when I did settle on this piece of land- which was a new subdivision- I
picked the two lots that where at the top of the hill....ok, they ended up
grating me down (which really pissed me off) but so far doing ok in the
basement... knock on wood!

Donna

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
> Behalf Of james singer
> Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 6:15 PM
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Fires and Floods
> 
> Same story here, Zem. I've yet to meet a person who considered
> elevation when shopping for a house. And it's not like it's a big
> secret. All the hurricane preparedness literature contains maps that
> show anticipated flooding by hurricane category.
> 
> On Dec 30, 2005, at 6:09 PM, Zemuly Sanders wrote:
> 
> > Developers here are always building in filled in wetlands (money can
> > buy lots of favors here), and the idiots who buy the houses are always
> > so shocked when their homes flood.  DUH.
> > zem
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cathy Carpenter"
> > <cathy.c@insightbb.com>
> > To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> > Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 9:59 AM
> > Subject: Re: [CHAT] Fires and Floods
> >
> >
> >> That's the way I feel about folks who build next to any large river,
> >> or for that matter, the seashore (name your ocean). Can understand
> >> the lure, but why do we keep bailing them out, then subsidize
> >> rebuilding?
> >>
> >> Cathy, west central IL, z5b
> >>
> >> On Dec 29, 2005, at 10:01 PM, David Franzman wrote:
> >>
> >>> I live about 10 miles from the Russian River.  It might flood this
> >>> weekend sometime but frankly if those folks who live along it don't
> >>> have their furniture suspended from the ceiling they are out of
> >>> their minds.
> >>> David
> >>> http://www.atouchofthetropics.net
> >>
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> Island Jim
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> Heat Zone 10
> Minimum 30 F [-1 C]
> Maximum 100 F [38 C]
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