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Yeah Barc, that sucks! They,(1 Sams Club), disposed of a million in foodstufs alone. The employees were allowed to consume it though! No Joke. Dave I laughed very hard picturing Billy doing that! Thanks to all, it looks like the worst has come and gone. Dry for the next 3-5 days. Whew, it was close gentlemen. I have learned much from this. The water 'came' within a few hours literally. There was no time for these folks to react or enable a contingency plan. You cannot stop large volumns of rainwater. It's always best to live on high ground, even if it means building the foundation a little higher like a moat around your structure. Many newer homes built like this survived. Those that built in low lying areas are still under 3-5 ft. of water.

I saw part's of the Mid-West, including, your neck of the wood's, Eddie. I hope thing's continue to dry out for you, and all those around you. Wisconsin is really looking like a mess. We got teased with 90 degree weather a few week's ago. Then, constant rain, mostly heavy, and 40 degree weather. Ski season may go on all year long, in the mountain's. Must be that Global Warming.

More and more housing is built on flood plains these days. Local authorities should stop giving planning permission to developers that want to do this.

Many of the houses in the UK that have been flooded a few times in the past few years cannot now get house or contents insurance.

What is the bet that your insurance premium goes up Eddie? Even though your house was not effected?

dave-r wrote:More and more housing is built on flood plains these days. Local authorities should stop giving planning permission to developers that want to do this.

Many of the houses in the UK that have been flooded a few times in the past few years cannot now get house or contents insurance.

What is the bet that your insurance premium goes up Eddie? Even though your house was not effected?

yes and the government is greedy for property tax, and thet let peeps build in a levy flood zone as in katrina, and then they wont repair/reinforce the levy the city floods , the raise ALL of our rates , and the gov just ignores the crys of the public to not build on flood plains and tax us all, sound similar dave? since our fore fathers are decendents from your fine land there are alot of parallels!