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Old 04-15-2021, 04:58 PM
 
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Those homes were intentionally flooded to prevent the potential flooding of half of Houston. There were floods in the 30's that inundated Downtown. Those floods led to the building of the Barker and Addicks dams. Imagine a 10 foot wall of water going down Buffalo Bayou from The West, causing hundreds of billions of dollars in damage, and destroying hundreds of thousands of structures. Do the people on the Bayou who flooded really think that the region as a whole should have risked that damage?

I'm well aware of the risk and have said three times now it was for the greater good but imagine YOUR home intentionally being destroyed to prevent other people's homes from MAYBE being destroyed.
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Old 04-15-2021, 07:04 PM
 
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I have FEMA,it only covers up to $250K.
Instead of house,how about hi rise condo,the lobby is damn high,and then you can get one on the 10th floor,it will take a biblical flood to reach you.
may be 5th floor so you can walk when the elevator stops working.
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