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re: La Flood Recovery Funds - RESTORE
Posted on 4/3/17 at 3:35 pm to beerJeep
Posted on 4/3/17 at 3:35 pm to beerJeep
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Well.... I lost 45 feet of land. A bulkhead. A boat house. All of it is gone, and the foundation of my house now hangs over the Amite.
NO insurance covers any of those things. It will cost over a quarter million dollars to shore up our home. None of which insurance will cover.
I can literally stand under the slab of my house and reach my hands up and still not touch the slab. If it continues to erode uninterrupted, the entire house will fall in. The flood completely shifted the rivers course.
And save me the "you shouldn't live by a river" bullshite. With that logic, new Orleans should have gotten zero after katrina. "Ya shouldn't build in a fricking bowl surrounded by water".
A river completely shifting it's course isn't exactly something that is planned on when neighborhoods get permitted for construction.
I feel for you.
Who is responsible for maintaining the waterway? That's the entity you have a claim against, if anyone.
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Posted on 4/3/17 at 3:42 pm to LSUFanHouston
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Who is responsible for maintaining the waterway? That's the entity you have a claim against, if anyone.
Parish says state. State says feds. Feds says army COE. COE says we do.
Or some variation of that. Basically the good ole fashioned "not our problem, call them" run around. Meanwhile every heavy rain or busy river weekend, more land gets lost. Just a shite situation all around.
Posted on 4/4/17 at 12:13 pm to LSUFanHouston
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Who is responsible for maintaining the waterway? That's the entity you have a claim against, if anyone.
The Amite is navigable, and thus property of the state of Louisiana. However, as a navigable waterway, the Army Corps of Engineers is responsible for maintaining its suitibility for navigation, BUT the Army Corps of Engineers is all but immune to law suits per federal statutes.
Basically, he's SOOL.
This post was edited on 4/4/17 at 12:15 pm
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