Re: Re: crazy weather/ flooding

"ehums"??

IMWTK.
d

----- Original Message ----- From: "Donna" <gossiper@sbcglobal.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 8:20 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Re: crazy weather/ flooding


I think this happens when folks come from out of the
area too...the ehums can fill that land and you would
never realize it was a waterway till it is too late.

Donna

--- Daryl <pulis@mindspring.com> wrote:
I'm afraid that most people are clueless about
flooding- until they get a notice from their homeowner's insurance co.

People also figure that since permits are needed to
build, that developers wouldn't be permitted to build in flood-prone areas.

d

----- Original Message ----- From: "Zemuly Sanders" <zsanders@midsouth.rr.com>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2006 7:12 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Re: crazy weather/ flooding


> Developers here are always building in flood
plains or filled in wetlands. > Then the stupid people who buy those houses act
shocked when they get > flooded during heavy rains. It just blows my
mind. "Mr. Green" must > visit a lot of officials to get those building
permits issued in the first > place.
> zem
> zone 7
> West TN
>
> -- Original Message ----- > From: "Daryl" <pulis@mindspring.com>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2006 2:38 PM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Re: crazy weather/ flooding
>
>
>>I think it makes no sense to build in a flood
plain. Period.
>>
>> In parts of the Panhandle of Florida
(floodplain-former swamp) they keep >> increasing the berm on which a house must stand.
Because of that, the >> older houses are being flooded even more often by
run-off from the new >> ones, and the disturbance of the water flow
through the bogs.
>>
>> In the 60's and 70's people laughed when they
were told not to build in >> some areas of Northern New Jersey because of the
flooding. They did >> anyway because of the land prices/builder greed.
>> Just listen to the weather channel when there's a
bit of a storm, and >> Wayne, and Oakland and Pompton Plains are
evacuated yet again by boat. >> Now, local governments have buy-out programs. Bah, humbug!
>>
>> At least I no longer live in that state, and have
to pay taxes for that >> particular buyout.
>>
>> d
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Bonnie & Bill Morgan"
<wmorgan972@ameritech.net>
>> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
>> Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2006 2:06 PM
>> Subject: RE: [CHAT] Re: crazy weather/ flooding
>>
>>
>>> Before the folks across the street could build,
they had to build the >>> soil
>>> level up about 2' because it was in a 100 year
flood plain. We saw the
>>> wisdom of that 2 years ago during a very wet
spring. It makes no sense >>> to
>>> build in a flood plain without taking a great
deal of precautions.
>>>
>>> Blessings,
>>> Bonnie (SW OH - zone 5)


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