On 3/22/10, Ken Waller <[email protected]> wrote: > In the late 80's I lived in St. Charles, Mo., and witnessed several low land > floods due to high water in the rivers. Low lying homes were damaged & in > some cases wiped out. After the water receded, most of the places flooded > were repaired/rebuild and re-inhabited. DUH ! > > I saw several cycles of this and just couldn't understand the thinking on > this.
Most of that land, at least in MO, was bought up by the government in the early 90s. The little of it that has reverted to private ownership since then is either surrounded by new levies or is uninsurable. -- Scott Loveless http://www.twosixteen.com/fivetoedsloth/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
