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Most Likely Mega-Disaster to Occur

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BUCKYLE;1917062; said:
Um...if insurance companies accept the premiums for a [censored]ing policy they issue...they can eat a dick all day. They sure as [censored] aren't a victim here.
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While this is true and I don't disagree, your insurance will go up because of it. They aren't going to lose now are they...kind of like the oil companies...
 
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buckeyebri;1917067; said:
While this is true and I don't disagree, your insurance will go up because of it. They aren't going to lose now are they...kind of like the oil companies...
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1. I like how you think I have insurance. :lol:
2. Insurance companies are crooks. They'll find a reason to raise rates, they don't need a flood.
 
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BUCKYLE;1917068; said:
1. I like how you think I have insurance. :lol:
2. Insurance companies are crooks. They'll find a reason to raise rates, they don't need a flood.
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LOL...absolutely they are and they will raise your rate for each and every natural disaster, fire, hail storm, or even your credit score now....The more they payout the more everyone pays in....
 
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buckeyebri;1917060; said:
I think you are the one that is painting with a broad brush here. I actually know a thing or two about floodplains since I deal with them from time to time in my job. But hey, I probably don't as much as you.

There are categories of flood plains, say for example 100 year and 500 year flood events. Inherently this means some of these areas will flood more often than others.

Some of these even carry different levels of Flood Insurance based on risk. Go [censored]ing figure, eh. So when you build in the area that is more prone to the event chances are good that you may experience such an event. Wow, what a concept.

Now like the Grand River and the good folks I was referencing who go back year after year just to be flooded out and bailed out the next year, something has to make you go hmmmm. Really, how often do insurance carriers have to pay out and local municipalities have to provide services to these folks? Hey, there is no cost in any of this right?

So hey, build wherever the [censored] you want and just wait for the good old government and insurance companies to bail your ass out....Take absolutely no responsibility in anyway, shape, or form for the decision you made on where to build and live, because here in good old America we will rescue you from your decision.....

And you don't think that blowing the levees and flooding all those acres of farmlands and so on is going to cost anything and no one is going to blame the corp for any of that.....right!
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I agree with you generally concerning the wisdom in not encouraging rebuilding in some areas. I absolutely agree with you about the fact of FEMA flood risk categories having a lot to do, historically, with what was built and where. The Federal Government helped guide people to those areas. If you one of the many non-sophisticated (topographically, anyway) home buyers the last 50 years - while looking at a home to buy you were likely told you are in a Flood Zone with little risk (especially pre-2009 when FEMA changed the definitions) in an area that is cheaply and easily insured.

That being so, I think it unfair to label them as selfish people with a willful disregard for the risk to their home being destroyed, who know of the risks, but who blow it off because of their "Plan B" of suing the freaking Corp of Engineers.

You said "most folks". That sure as [Mark May] was not the plan of my friends and neighbors who were flooded.

The Yellowstone Super Volcano may blow any year and take out large chunks of the West. The New Madrid fault line is as much a secret as the freaking Mississippi. What do we say to them when it snaps, "Sucks for you, Cairo, Illinois, but most of you knew it was there and wanted to live where you wanted and sue the Corp later!?
 
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http://www.nola.com/weather/index.ssf/2011/05/record_high_river_likely_to_re.html

More efforts to keep the River from destroying the Old River Control Structure and sending a wall of water down the Atchafalaya to destroy Nutriaitch and family. This is sorta like a planned levee dynamiting w/o the dynamite.



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Times-Picayune archive -This is a picture of the last time
the Morganza Spillway was opened on April 18, 1973.



The Army Corps of Engineers is seriously considering opening the Morganza

Spillway above Baton Rouge next week to divert Mississippi River

floodwaters heading down from the Midwest and Ohio River into the

Atchafalaya Delta.


Gov. Bobby Jindal, who took a helicopter trip with corps officials this

morning, told reporters at the Governor's Mansion this afternoon that he

activated the Louisiana National Guard in response to the rising river levels

and the Morganza opening.


This would be the first time the emergency spillway has been used since

1973, when another record high river threatened to undermine and destroy

the Old River Control Structure that blocks the Mississippi from flowing

down the Atchafalaya.
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It's not raining today! Unfortunately, it's supposed to rain again the next few days. But it looks like next week there will finally be some respite from the rain for a few days. Sadly, it'll probably be too little too late for those folks down stream...
 
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http://www.nola.com/weather/index.ssf/2011/05/morganza_spillway_might_be_ope.html

The likely, though not yet announced, opening of the Morganza Spillway to

lower Mississippi River levels along Baton Rouge and New Orleans will

produce widespread flooding that prompted the Army Corps of Engineers on

Friday night to warn residents of Pointe Coupee, St. Landry, St. Martin,

Iberia, Iberville, St. Mary, and Terrebonne parishes to contact public

officials about evacuation plans.


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That announcement came in a news release accompanying a map showing estimates of inundation caused by a 50 percent opening of the Morganza Spillway that indicated that more than a dozen Louisiana communities will be threatened with floodwaters, including Houma, Plaquemine, St. Francisville, Morgan City, Berwick, Raceland and Mathews. The map is the result of computer modeling conducted during the past few days by the corps in support of its plans to open the spillway.
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