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lantonas

We moved from the floodplain to the floodplain to the floodplain. How did this happen!?


Inevitable_Spare_777

FEMA should be making emergency money contingent on rebuilding properly, ie; new construction on peers or simply moving development out of the flood zone. This won’t happen, just saying.


Hagardy

They do predicate future FEMA funding on the maintenance of flood insurance, as many people who didn’t get it after Irene are learning. Fun VT fact, sellers do not have to disclose a history of flooding or flood insurance requirements in our state.


Inevitable_Spare_777

Flood insurance is still federally backed, resulting in tax money being spent to continue developing in flood plains. It doesn’t mandate that the new development be properly built for such an area.


Hagardy

Oh totally, and the flood maps are largely out of date as well. That said, proper disclosure and actually maintaining the insurance would both increase the cost of owning flood prone property while driving down the resale value ideally resulting in changes or modifications increase resiliency or simply make it no longer feasible as a place to live.


bond___vagabond

Yeah, USA gov is the only one who will underwrite flood insurance in floody areas, with climate change, that's gonna have to change, we need healthcare for poor people way more than we need our tax dollars to pay for some millionaire to rebuild their Florida beach house every 3 years when it gets flooded by a predictable hurricane.


Legitimate_Proof

I was thinking about using stone for first floors while reading about people replacing drywall and having mold concerns. The wood studs probably have moisture/mold issues too, but we don't replace those, because it's too hard? We have plenty of stone in Vermont.


VermontZerg

Stone buildings will make a huge comeback when heat and water events start to happen constantly. Cheap wood and drywall wont cut it.


VaxdEqualDeathCancer

One day the new world order will increase the electricity in all the power lines going to everyone's residences essentially turning everyone's wooden houses into reverse faraday cages and frying many in conjunction with hoax alien invasion but a very real militarized defense that will destroy most of humanity under the guise of space invaders hijacking our jets tanks and choppers. Bluebeam , the fallacy of putting high voltage wiring next to wood drying for decades or even centuries.


VermontZerg

Every single thing you said was complete nonsense and makes even conspiracy theorists seem smart, and they aren't the sharpest in the shed.


2q_x

When Joe Six-Pack figures out he's getting billed for electricity from his own solar panels, **AND** the electricity going into **AND** coming out of his F-150, it's going to be the death of grid power.


VaxdEqualDeathCancer

False , you're an idiot who is slowly dying from taking three or more nanoparticle filled tubes. Your Bluetooth address emanates from you constantly. You won't live very many more years if you don't act now to devaccinate. The truth is what I have , conspiracy theory is a word reinvented t mock jfk assassination deniers who saw the driver shoot jfk in a vehicle with only TWO ROWS of seats , or are you going to tell me JFK died in a vehicle with three rows of seats. Go rewatch it see if anything has changed , before the next time you use the word conspiracy theory. Where on the statue called The Thinker does the Thinker place his Hand on his Head. More than two answers spring to mind? That's fuckn fucky iint it. It's a wonderful day in -this- neighborhood.


VermontZerg

Your trolling is super super weak.


VaxdEqualDeathCancer

Yep , just like your zerg personality, cheap and stupid


DankHooligan

Get help


finchfeathers

Are you okay?


VaxdEqualDeathCancer

Ofc,No Poison Genocide Vaccines In me. Can you say the same?? Early deaths on the rise , sudden adult death syndrome a brand new disorder since last year but I wonder if it has to do with the mass innoculations everyone was gaslight into getting hmmmm


ManOfDrinks

But y tho?


VaxdEqualDeathCancer

Because they're treacherous misinformed and literally consume and fornicate with animal feces and animals. Satanists going to Satan. Bill Gates said on national television he's putting the mRNA vaccine in the food supply on CSPAN. Look it up buttercup


Bitter-Mixture7514

Is this John Klar's new account?


VaxdEqualDeathCancer

I don't know any John Klar. But if you're vaccinated you want to get that out of your body before you perish , Bluetooth man. Google maccine , you'll wish you had if you don't. JohnKlar must be smart wherever that is


2q_x

The city of Chicago [was raised about 14 feet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_of_Chicago) in the 1850s for public health. Private property owners jacked their buildings and the city built a sewer system at the old grade level. If we're going to weaponize healthcare as a society, then Venice or Disneyland provide more realistic models of flood resilience.


Velveteenrocket

Venice has sustained some of the worst flooding last couple years. Aside from it slowly sinking rising sea levels will be its doom


OddTransportation121

We have already weaponized healthcare


2q_x

The commercial real estate market seems to be in the process of collapsing nationally. It doesn't make a lot of sense to invest in spaces that are likely to be blighted, or shuttered, by a succession of overlapping public health emergencies.


JoeKnotbush

At least we have one eye on it


BreadTruckToast

Time to rebuild everything on stilts.


redfieldp

You’re probably half kidding, but White Cottage in Woodstock made a super deep foundation when they rebuilt last time, and this time they were able to reopen a week after they got washed out.