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Yeah saw that on the news.  I still don't get why people build so close to the water front...sooner or later there is erosion, tsunami, hurricane, etc....and the Fed/us pay to rebuild this in a lot of cases...bring back the dunes!

...not to open a can of worms...but flood prone area's...you know the levy isn't going to last forever (maybe not at all).  I believe that in a lot of flooding situations that if people take the Fed money it's a buy out and they have to move?

In the end it's location, location, location...and money, money, money.

...then again...like I should talk...I am building 105 feet away from a stream...and about 10 feet higher than the 100 year flood mark...I know in the past 50 years since our family has owned it that a few things have happened: 1) it overflowed the bank about 42 years ago, about 1 foot over, late March-warm temps-heavy snow melt off-about 6 inches of rain over a 4 day period, kind of surprised it wasn't a lot worse...2) the stream has cut itself about another 10 to 12 inches deeper in the past 50 years...3) we have been cleaning up the dead fall and limbs in the stream farther down on our land where the stream cuts into the woods, that has helped lower the level over all and when there is a lot of run off it handles the surge really well...is this Homestead Mgmt? 

crazy and scary.