Flooding over the Midwest...

MobileAudio219 · Post by **MobileAudio219** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 11:52 am

Hope nobody here is being effected by the flood waters. Seems crazy, seems like everytime I turn on the tv another levie is breaking.

Tim · Post by **Tim** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 11:54 am

We ain't yet but that's not to say we won't.

Our area gets it pretty often this time of year.

Tim

MobileAudio219 · Post by **MobileAudio219** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 12:12 pm

It's crazy, in many cases its worse than the flood of '93...

I think this year will be the year of floods...

I went floating down the meramac last week, it looked more like the mississipi...

Last year the rivers were LOW, it sucks having to jump out of the raft and drag it down the shallow parts...

cargodz · Post by **cargodz** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 5:28 am

We say a prayer every night for these people having to deal with the floods and loss of homes and businesses... And although the Gov't has said they are going to help... We all see how they've gone the extra mile to help those in the past :sarcasm

OnYrMrk · Post by **OnYrMrk** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 6:13 am

Actually, if the government is going to do anything, they should mandate the insurance companies to include Flood insurance in areas that are prone to flooding, and have it as optional for anyone else.

Flooding is an act of God and has nothing to do with negligence or accident. Just like they have earthquake insurance in California, here in Oklahoma, home insurance covers tornadoes and hailstorms, and Fire insurance is covered on most Home owners insurance. Flood insurance should be mandatory for these areas that are prone to flooding.

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JeremyC · Post by **JeremyC** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 8:16 am

MobileAudio219 wrote:It's crazy, in many cases its worse than the flood of '93...

Wow someone else that remembers how bad the floods were in 93. My family went camping that memorial day, and the lake we were at came up 6ft over night.

Tim · Post by **Tim** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 8:34 am

Yeah I remeber it too. My dad woke me up at 6 in the morning to go out an look around. We were just about declared a disaster area in Indiana where we lived at the time.

Places where there were no lakes or ponds were flooded. People lost cars and houses.

It was bad

Tim

William from NOLA · Post by **William from NOLA** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 10:35 am

I know a little about flooding

MobileAudio219 · Post by **MobileAudio219** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 6:43 am

Your family decided to stay and rebuilt, right? Did you get it all done and moved back in?

William from NOLA · Post by **William from NOLA** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 4:26 pm

We gutted it and it still stands like that. Long story short, it costs too much to raise (it's a brick house) and we're scared to rebuild. No one knows what will happen with the neighborhood referring to what type of people move in.

We sold out to the road home; just waiting for the closing which is taking forever.

We had bought a house in a suburb right next to New Orleans (basically, just over a canal). That's where I've been living since May 2006. My parents are currently looking at retirement homes across the lake. That has been fun :)