Re: [MBZ] Understanding rivers and flooding — some FEMA fun

2019-05-26 Thread Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes
All that should be on file with whatever jurisdiction approved the Development. That stuff needs to be approved by planning department --R Sent from iPhone > On May 26, 2019, at 8:57 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes > wrote: > > FEMA has always been a slow moving giant, like most Federal agencies

Re: [MBZ] Understanding rivers and flooding — some FEMA fun

2019-05-26 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
FEMA has always been a slow moving giant, like most Federal agencies. I have a LOMA on file for my property, as my house is built on fill that the developer put in to raise the area above the flood plain that it would have otherwise been in. Without getting too far into the weeds, if you go an

Re: [MBZ] Understanding rivers and flooding — some FEMA fun

2019-05-26 Thread Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes
We have a situation here in Charleston regarding FEMA and NFIP and what appears very strongly to be past and ongoing (federal) fraud by the Mayor/City going back a number of years involving many many $millions. 3 friends of mine wrote a very detailed letter describing all this over a year ago an

Re: [MBZ] Understanding rivers and flooding

2019-05-26 Thread Peter Frederick via Mercedes
For a while during the Clinton Administration (I think, could be wrong, might have been Bush II) FEMA required relocation, would not restore property flooded in a designated flood plain. Only alternative was structure elevation to 10 ft above 100 year flood level. At least one relative of a co

Re: [MBZ] Understanding rivers and flooding

2019-05-26 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
I have FEMA sponsored flood insurance even though I barely skirt an AE flood zone. We’ve carried it on every property we’ve owned since a buddy who is an insurance agent explained it to us years ago: Falling water/rain - homeowner’s insurance Rising water - flood insurance It’s cheap when you’

Re: [MBZ] Understanding rivers and flooding

2019-05-26 Thread Mountain Man via Mercedes
A ripped copy of The Water's Edge ~536mb is available if anyone is interested. Explanation of Flood Insurance fiasco and examines the 1998 New Braunfels, TX re-flood weeks before Katrina. Someone might might find a link? Here is the description found at: https://www.worldcat.org/title/waters-edge-p

Re: [MBZ] Understanding rivers and flooding

2019-05-26 Thread Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
Living here where I am and watching the tides go in and out twice a day every day, then the occasional huge rain or hurricane storm surge, I get a sense of the flow of water.  It is usually quick to rise in a storm but then takes quite a while to drain down.  All depends on the terrain and wate

Re: [MBZ] Understanding rivers and flooding

2019-05-26 Thread Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes
Yea I guess so. What I also observed is on our road which flooded first the water is down a little below where it originally was Thursday. But the next road over which flooded after our road (it was still passable when ours was not) had new areas of flooding and you could not get as far down it

Re: [MBZ] Understanding rivers and flooding

2019-05-26 Thread Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes
Takes time for the water to drain down --FT Sent from iPhone > On May 26, 2019, at 1:38 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes > wrote: > > I can look at this website which show the river level by me and it shows to > be dropping. With more rain it will go back up of course. I have never > de

[MBZ] Understanding rivers and flooding

2019-05-26 Thread Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes
I  can look at this website which show the river level by me and it shows to be dropping.  With more rain it will go back up of course.  I have never dealt with rivers, flooding and such so I am trying to wrap my head around something.  Looking at the data here, the river is currently at 34.15