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Stewards of the Earth
hedgie:
I'm of the mind of sending them all still-suits, and letting them harvest the Spice.
The Seldom Killer:
Here in England we have a bit of the opposite problem. Too few lawns. A lot of basin regions have been overdeveloped with housing with small gardens and some of those being turned into driveways for 2nd and 3rd household cars. Without these small patches of natural drainage, more rainwater gets diverted to the sewerage. In any area that was already on the cusp of flooding it suddenly tips over a lot more frequently.
pwhodges:
Plus we are building more in flood plains, while at the same time insurers are starting to refuse flood insurance!
(I once had a house at the top of a hill; the insurers classified its flood risk not as "none", nor even "slight", but "moderate"!)
explicit:
Hey, if they can't make money off it they're not going to insure you, which is one reason why so many people near the shore aren't insured anymore. There's no money in an insurance company covering those places unless they jack up the rates. Certain environments just aren't meant for housing anymore... (whether or not insurance coverage should be mandatory is another topic, I'm just saying that they'd insure everything if there was money in it).
As far as the hill thing goes it depends on what it's built on. If it's clay or something similiar I'm not surprised they classified that as a moderate risk to flooding.
The Seldom Killer:
Paul, I cycled through floods above Membury and Lambourn around this time last year. Some days, nowhere is safe.
I do generally look for houses with some elevation though.
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