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re: I'm really worried about BR post flood
Posted on 8/28/16 at 1:15 pm to Shaun176
Posted on 8/28/16 at 1:15 pm to Shaun176
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I listed my house in Baton Rouge in July 06. We accepted an offer in the Middle of October for about 8% more than it was worth preKatrina. We purchased in Baton Rouge at about 8% more than the house was worth a year before and had no problem finding quality listings.
Wait, you're talking about how the market leveled quickly after Katrina in an area that wasn't really affected by Katrina, and comparing that to the current flood situation?????I'm talking about the market in an area that was affected.
This post was edited on 8/28/16 at 1:16 pm
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Posted on 8/28/16 at 1:23 pm to elprez00
Here are the games I have seen:
They are offering FEMA trailers to people who lost their homes so they can live next door to their damaged house and work on it to get back to normal as quickly as possible. However, they won't give you a trailer if you're in a flood zone.
They are telling people that before they can rebuild their houses, they may need to raise them to a set height. Many homes are on slabs. If they have to raise the home, it will mean the entire home is a tear down. Not only have they not decided on the elevation they will need to raise them too, they haven't decided if they will need to be raised at all, but they are still holding up building permits to rebuild in the affected areas.
As said earlier, completely different amounts given to people with identical damage.
Flood zones based on waterways being in valleys rather than distributaries building up alluvial ridges along them (aka: the river is the high ground)
They denied access to flood insurance to people who's homes weren't high enough, while making it illegal to raise their homes more than a certain amount, leaving some people trapped in the middle. They were not allowed to raise their homes enough to get out of the flood zone, but they will be denied any fema assistance for being below the flood plain in a flood zone. Mind full of frick.
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They are offering FEMA trailers to people who lost their homes so they can live next door to their damaged house and work on it to get back to normal as quickly as possible. However, they won't give you a trailer if you're in a flood zone.
They are telling people that before they can rebuild their houses, they may need to raise them to a set height. Many homes are on slabs. If they have to raise the home, it will mean the entire home is a tear down. Not only have they not decided on the elevation they will need to raise them too, they haven't decided if they will need to be raised at all, but they are still holding up building permits to rebuild in the affected areas.
As said earlier, completely different amounts given to people with identical damage.
Flood zones based on waterways being in valleys rather than distributaries building up alluvial ridges along them (aka: the river is the high ground)
They denied access to flood insurance to people who's homes weren't high enough, while making it illegal to raise their homes more than a certain amount, leaving some people trapped in the middle. They were not allowed to raise their homes enough to get out of the flood zone, but they will be denied any fema assistance for being below the flood plain in a flood zone. Mind full of frick.
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Posted on 8/28/16 at 1:24 pm to tgrbaitn08
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Time heals. In the big picture no one's life is "over". Hope and faith will get most people through this tough time and in 10 years they will look at it like a blimp on the radar.
I agree with you that for most people this will be the case. Especially seeing how much the community has come together to help, love, and support those affected. My concerns are for those that were already mentally "shaky" before this. For someone already on the edge...this is something that could finally push them over. Hopefully those people have family and friends looking out for them right now.
Posted on 8/28/16 at 1:27 pm to 911Moto
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Wait, you're talking about how the market leveled quickly after Katrina in an area that wasn't really affected by Katrina, and comparing that to the current flood situation?????I'm talking about the market in an area that was affected.
The OP is about Baton Rouge. Most of Baton Rouge did not flood. Many of the greatest effects on Baton Rouge will be an influx of people renting or buying from the unincorporated areas in the East part of EBR, Central, LP, etc.
Central, Livingston Parish, Ascension will take longer to recover than Baton Rouge, but they have recovered from widespread flooding before.
Posted on 8/28/16 at 1:38 pm to Shaun176
Large swaths of BR did flood as well. Much of Shenandoah, Old Jefferson, Sherwood, Scotlandville, Tigerland, Gardere, Santa Maria, Merrydale, Bluebonnet, Acadian, ect. However, many areas did not, such as Mid City, downtown, most of the Garden District, most of Southdowns, Bocage, Inniswald, ect. The core of the city is already back to business as usual. Some areas will look like war zones for months.
The main thing is that unlike Katrina, where the city was basically abandoned for over a month, the main centers of employment have not left. LSU is back in session. The state government agencies did not flood, and neither did the chemical plants. Downtown is still bustling, the hospitals were un-damaged, and I don't believe the construction firms along airline flooded, though I could be wrong about that one.
Most people do not have to put their entire lives and livlihoods on hold. Their things and their homes may be gone, but not their source of income. Their childrens' schools may have flooded, but contingencies were made and they are still in local schools with their friends.
While I know that the community which emerges will not be the same, I am still hopeful for the future. The schools will come back. The jobs never left. Most neighborhoods will come back, and so will most people, but some will leave, and new people will replace them.
The main thing is that unlike Katrina, where the city was basically abandoned for over a month, the main centers of employment have not left. LSU is back in session. The state government agencies did not flood, and neither did the chemical plants. Downtown is still bustling, the hospitals were un-damaged, and I don't believe the construction firms along airline flooded, though I could be wrong about that one.
Most people do not have to put their entire lives and livlihoods on hold. Their things and their homes may be gone, but not their source of income. Their childrens' schools may have flooded, but contingencies were made and they are still in local schools with their friends.
While I know that the community which emerges will not be the same, I am still hopeful for the future. The schools will come back. The jobs never left. Most neighborhoods will come back, and so will most people, but some will leave, and new people will replace them.
Posted on 8/28/16 at 1:42 pm to elprez00
quote:Such as??
and seeing the games FEMA is playing right now
Posted on 8/28/16 at 1:45 pm to elprez00
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Do people really not understand the magnatiude of this event?
I would say the vast majority, do not.
Posted on 8/28/16 at 1:45 pm to elprez00
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Do people really not understand the magnatiude of this event? This could've happened in Nebraska just as easily as here.
This has happened in other parts of the country before.
Posted on 8/28/16 at 1:47 pm to elprez00
Many times filing the Bankruptcy paperwork is 10000000x's smarter for you and your family than rebuilding. What and who you thought would come back never ever materializes.
Posted on 8/28/16 at 1:48 pm to Revelator
Those in Denham, Central, and St. Amant sure do. Most do not. I drove down churchpoint and stringer bridge road yesterday. Mountains of trash from gutted homes line both sides of the road for miles and miles. Every single house. There are 100,000 people displaced in Ascension Parish alone, out of 130,000 people living in the entire parish!
Posted on 8/28/16 at 1:54 pm to kingbob
To be fair... It's NOT trash... It's people lives and memories.... Horrible......
Posted on 8/28/16 at 2:01 pm to kingbob
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Those in Denham, Central, and St. Amant sure do. Most do not. I drove down churchpoint and stringer bridge road yesterday. Mountains of trash from gutted homes line both sides of the road for miles and miles. Every single house. There are 100,000 people displaced in Ascension Parish alone, out of 130,000 people living in the entire parish!
I live in Denham and flooded, so I know.
Posted on 8/28/16 at 2:03 pm to Revelator
Where ya at man????? Sorry for your loss. I drive through Denham everyday to work and it chokes me up EVERYTIME.
Posted on 8/28/16 at 2:07 pm to kingbob
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Large swaths of BR did flood as well. Much of Shenandoah, Old Jefferson, Sherwood, Scotlandville, Tigerland, Gardere, Santa Maria, Merrydale, Bluebonnet, Acadian, ect.
About half of the areas you posted did not flood. If any home in those areas that did not flood, did in fact flood, it will be an anonomly.
This post was edited on 8/28/16 at 2:08 pm
Posted on 8/28/16 at 2:17 pm to elprez00
How much of the future St George flooded? I think there's your answer.
Posted on 8/28/16 at 2:19 pm to elprez00
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I'm really worried about BR post flood
1000-year flood, bruh.
People will rebuild, and everything will be fine (for the next few generations, any way...my point is that we will be long-dead by the time another storm like this one hits).
Posted on 8/28/16 at 2:20 pm to elprez00
I didn't flood. I've put my boss on notice to transfer me out of state next year. I don't want my kids growing up here anymore.
Posted on 8/28/16 at 2:22 pm to Clark W Griswold
Where you going Clark?
Posted on 8/28/16 at 2:26 pm to Golfer
Dude...I helped guy a house in Old Jefferson last week. Nearly every house had at least 4 feet of water. O'Neal Lane was a goddamn river! A couple friends in Centurian Place got 8 feet in their homes! Much of Santa Maria had water up to the eaves!
Posted on 8/28/16 at 2:26 pm to dukke v
It wasn't trash before the flood, but that is what it has been reduced to.
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