Why were all the RV's left in the flood?
I understand that sometimes you can't move an RV when the water is coming up but it looks like there's a lot of RV's that were just left to flood. I mine were there I'd have moved it up the road and o...
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kzspree320 wrote:
Many seem to not understand the term historical flooding. It means it has NEVER happened in recorded history. If it has never happened, how can you assume people should have been able to see it coming in time to react way ahead to time.
Many variations- it happened but was not recorded, it was recorded but knowledge not readily available, it happened but without extensive and expensive geological survey and study we won't get to know. Then there is the "we know but choose to ignore or cover up" variation. I lived in a town and documented one of the larger floods of the creek behind my house. A few years later a builder was permitted to build some houses on the other side of the creek which was 25 feet of so below our house. I pointed out that the proposed houses will eventually be surrounded by water. Built them anyway and expressed surprise when the brook flooded the houses and overran the sewer plantaround the bend. Fortunately no RV's drowned in that particular event
