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Usually, it's because the price of the land is "right". Louisville, KY is built partly in a flood plain, and it's usually those houses that are most "affordable" to struggling families. They have gotten flooded out regularly over the years, due to unscrupulous builders who are supposed to disclose if a house is in a flood plain.

I grew up in rural Missouri, just uphill from a creek that flooded a lot (and it still does). Our house was up on the hill, as the bottomground was too valuable for farming to simply build a house there. In fact, NO ONE built their houses on good bottomground, and no one's houses flooded. But rural Missouri's population is pretty sparse, not like Michigan's, or Kentucky, where I live now. Sometimes, there's no other place to build a house, period.

Don’t get me started on that, please.

Figure it out, idiot.

I don't mean to be a jerk but he's right. Town I live in half the town is down the hill and considered flood plain even though it hasn,t flooded in a century. Guess which side of town I didn't look at houses in. Same as the guy on The weather Channel in LA and had his third house lost from hurricanes and flooding. At some point its your fault.

In a previous post I mentioned that flooding is an annual spring event in this watershed and every year it’s handled very well by the residents and businesses. This is being called a 500yr-type event based on the water levels achieved and it’s the result of two dams breaking which have never broken before. If they hold, no one is affected just like every spring.

And of the hundreds of people that I personally know up and down the river, nobody is crying for the government to save them.

With the numbers of rivers in the US susceptible to flooding like this at some point in their history, you’re suggesting we not live within 20mi of them to avoid a once-every-half-millennia scenario? Curious where your nearest river is.

That [bleep] storms runs right through the heart of Dow chemical. If Dow has a breach...kiss the Great Lakes good bye. Their silence is deafening. That would be major issue

Did not know that there were earthen dams still in use.

Might be a good time after this is sorted out to get it built better.

Hope no more folks lose their homes or lives.

Dow chemical is fine. The plant was successfully shut down, rail cars are secured and non-essential personnel were evacuated. The brine pond and a waste water pond was breached by Titabawassee river floodwaters and the Coastguard is on scene. Only one dam is gone, the Sanford dam is still intact but the structure is questionable. There hasn't been any concern about the Dow dam. Water level peaked around 3:00pm and are receding. Floodwaters were 3' over the max which was in 1986.

The Pebble Project near Lake Illiamna in western AK plans to build the largest dam in the World for a copper and molybdenum mine. Not only are they planning on using earth they plan to site it on a 2,500' deep( thick) tundra sponge.

That [bleep] storms runs right through the heart of Dow chemical. If Dow has a breach...kiss the Great Lakes good bye. Their silence is deafening. That would be major issue

You good?

The country needs to come together to save Dow Chemical. The company has done so much for society. They gave us the silicone breast implant. We need to keep that plant running and expanding!