Help us target a neighborhood to buy a home (2014, homeowners insurance)

[abcdefg567]

Originally Posted by hollyt00

That was a really neat map, I agree!

My husband and I joke with some seriousness that there is a reason why Gen. Palmer settled where he did. Weather seems always much more extreme the farther north/east/south you move. I live downtown and we don't get as much snow as some areas, as much extreme damaging hail (it does happen; we replaced our roof and siding when we had a ton of pea-sized hail hit the area; I guess I am thinking more of the baseball sized hail that has hit our area the past few years), definitely not as much wind as the east side of town, etc.

Do you get streets flooding in your area?

I think at some point we may turn our attention to the downtown area for a new home, but that was my main reservation.

[hollyt00]

The only place we've seen flooding is around Uintah, at the corners, and only very recently- last year. The water came over the curbs at the corner of Uintah and Weber/Nevada and then disappeared after an hour or so.

[dr.frog]

Originally Posted by abcdefg567

Very interesting map. We almost bought a house in one of the purple landslide zones with no idea. Enthralling.

I also had no idea about the extent of the landslide risks when I move to COS 10 years ago, although I was naturally wary about buying a house on any steep slope that wasn't bedrock, same as in a place that looks like a flood plain or is in the middle of a pine forest. I only heard about the mine subsidence issues after I moved here, too.

I don't think the wildfire risk map in that collection is particularly helpful, BTW. Far better is the one the city maintains with fire risk evaluations for individual properties in the wildland-urban interface:

http://gis.coloradosprings.gov/Html5...firemitigation

While I'm at it, I ought to re-share this link to the viewer for historical maps of the city. There are more detailed maps of the mine workings at Rockrimmon and Cragmor here, and the 1947 aerial imagery shows the full extent of the gold refinery waste dump they built the Gold Hill Mesa development on top of.

Historic Map Explorer | Colorado Springs

[TCHP]

Originally Posted by hollyt00

That was a really neat map, I agree!

My husband and I joke with some seriousness that there is a reason why Gen. Palmer settled where he did. Weather seems always much more extreme the farther north/east/south you move. I live downtown and we don't get as much snow as some areas, as much extreme damaging hail (it does happen; we replaced our roof and siding when we had a ton of pea-sized hail hit the area; I guess I am thinking more of the baseball sized hail that has hit our area the past few years), definitely not as much wind as the east side of town, etc.

There is a lot of truth in that assumption. 150 years ago, construction was preferably done where it was the easiest to build, least expensive to accomplish, least prone to natural risks, and had easy access to water. Construction engineers spent their time in major metros working high rise builds or in mining. They weren't trying to figure out how to put a residence in many of the places we build them today.

[abcdefg567]

Originally Posted by hollyt00

The only place we've seen flooding is around Uintah, at the corners, and only very recently- last year. The water came over the curbs at the corner of Uintah and Weber/Nevada and then disappeared after an hour or so.

Thank you. I think that's around where we got stuck, but can't remember.

How we didn't scare you away OP!

[TCHP]

Read an interesting article in the GT a couple months ago called Political Geography of El Paso County. It basically broke down party voting percentage by geographic areas of the region. As often discussed here, there is a large Democrat presence in western and central Cos with a near 50/50 mix heading east and south with ever increasing Republican support as one heads north towards Douglas county, which is even more conservative than Colo Spgs.

https://gazette.com/news/el-paso-cou...902afca66.html

[otowi]

Originally Posted by TCHP

Read an interesting article in the GT a couple months ago called Political Geography of El Paso County. It basically broke down party voting percentage by geographic areas of the region. As often discussed here, there is a large Democrat presence in western and central Cos with a near 50/50 mix heading east and south with ever increasing Republican support as one heads north towards Douglas county, which is even more conservative than Colo Spgs.

https://gazette.com/news/el-paso-cou...902afca66.html

Oh we're dating ourselves TCHP! In March 1997, on the 125th anniversary of the paper, The Gazette Telegraph (GT) dropped Telegraph from its name and became The Gazette. I suppose they thought "Telegraph" had become anachronistic, kind of like us!

[TCHP]

Guilty as charged!

[rschlegel]

What year was the last major hail storm that damaged a lot of roofs?

[Vision67]

Originally Posted by rschlegel

What year was the last major hail storm that damaged a lot of roofs?

"On July 28, 2016, a storm described by meteorologists as a "hail bomb" smashed the Colorado Springs area, resulting in the sixth-most damaging event in Colorado history. More than $350 million in claims were made for damage to homes and vehicles by the storm."

https://gazette.com/news/8-of-the-mo...7ca9ed2c9.html