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re: Homeowners in Bluff Swamp are surrounded by flood water, and they are mad about it
Posted on 5/25/21 at 9:25 am to member12
Posted on 5/25/21 at 9:25 am to member12
Its a ridge that historically did not flood. The problem is people in baton rouge who filled in and developed floodplain and dammed all of those people in.
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Posted on 5/25/21 at 9:26 am to The Implication
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Don't build your house in a fricking swamp
Or at least elevate your house.
Dumb people.
Posted on 5/25/21 at 9:27 am to EthicalHedonist
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Hard to tell about the property’s elevation in that second pic, but my dad always told me that generally I should never buy a home that was lower than the road.
This x100.
If your house is lower than the road, it will eventually flood.
Posted on 5/25/21 at 9:28 am to Mid Iowa Tiger
Stilts.
I feel sorry for people losing belongings, but it's hard to feel too sorry for people that build in an area that not in might flood, but will. Should be mandatory to build on stilts, or with sacrificial floor, or on build up elevation above possible flood levels, etc... None of the above are unreasonable.
I feel sorry for people losing belongings, but it's hard to feel too sorry for people that build in an area that not in might flood, but will. Should be mandatory to build on stilts, or with sacrificial floor, or on build up elevation above possible flood levels, etc... None of the above are unreasonable.
Posted on 5/25/21 at 9:29 am to Notnac
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If your house is lower than the road, it will eventually flood.
road=dam to anyone with some sense.
Posted on 5/25/21 at 9:30 am to BuckyCheese
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DownshiftAndFloorIt
Eventually in one of these flood threads Goofball will tell us when and where he was touched during a flood event.
Posted on 5/25/21 at 9:32 am to DownshiftAndFloorIt
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Its a ridge that historically did not flood.
Just because it's called "ridge road" doesn't mean it didn't historically flood. It's in the middle of a swamp. It's always been in a swamp.
It's a foolish place to build a house, especially one that isn't raised on piers. And it was developed AFTER most of Baton Rouge was.
Posted on 5/25/21 at 9:33 am to DownshiftAndFloorIt
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I'm going to educate some mafukkas in here.
There are certainly a whole lot of houses that were literally built in the swamp and rightfully should flood. Shame on those who approved that construction and shame on those who bought it.
There are a whole lot of houses that have been on natural ridges/high spots for hundreds of years. Those places do not naturally flood. Even with the river was doing its own thing they didn't flood. Now they do, because baton rouge had total unbridled development for decades, basically damming in bluff swamp and preventing draining to the amite. Their "plan" was to let it all go to bluff swamp and frick the people there. Now they get pissed when Iberville doesn't allow it. Those people on ridge road are rightfully pissed off and I feel for them. Id build up alligator bayou road 10 feet higher and pump all of the south of bluff swamp into BR if I was them. The people who were here first are the ones getting fricked the hardest and that is a major problem.
That's your unscientific theory.
Posted on 5/25/21 at 9:34 am to dewster
The original houses there are on land that absolutely did not historically flood.
Posted on 5/25/21 at 9:34 am to Notnac
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This x100.
If your house is lower than the road, it will eventually flood.
Trying to remember exactly which street, but there was one in New Orleans where the construction company totally screwed up the elevation and ended up building the street and drainage a foot or two above all of the houses.
It wasn't shocking that someone made a calculation error. What surprised me was that they had gotten through most of the construction without raising an eyebrow.
Posted on 5/25/21 at 9:34 am to The Implication
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That's your unscientific theory
Confirmed by many generations of people living there.
Posted on 5/25/21 at 9:35 am to DownshiftAndFloorIt
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Confirmed by many generations of people living there.
But disproven with a simple elevation map. It's a swamp. Don't build in it without being prepared for some flooding.
IIRC, most of the original houses were trailers used for fishing or hunting camps.
This post was edited on 5/25/21 at 9:38 am
Posted on 5/25/21 at 9:40 am to goofball
I do not get the impression that you have any idea how to read a map of any type. The old people were not stupid. Land was very widely available and people did not build where flooding was a concern. It was made into a concern by wild west style development and now the pompous fricks who live across the floodplain can't understand why people have the audacity to get mad.
Posted on 5/25/21 at 9:42 am to goofball
Simple elevation map? Have you notice elevation in Louisiana in general? If not for Miss River levee all of south La would flood multiple times a year. Including you
By some of y’all comments should we all have built our homes with elevations higher than Miss River Levee? Not build homes in the natural flood plan of Miss River assuming levees not there to protect? Should no one built below the natural levee, highland road? Perhaps ask this of people in Central, off millerville, more recently courses, Sherwood, airline hwy.
By some of y’all comments should we all have built our homes with elevations higher than Miss River Levee? Not build homes in the natural flood plan of Miss River assuming levees not there to protect? Should no one built below the natural levee, highland road? Perhaps ask this of people in Central, off millerville, more recently courses, Sherwood, airline hwy.
Posted on 5/25/21 at 9:42 am to DownshiftAndFloorIt
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The old people were not stupid.
Apparently not. They built houses in a swamp.
Not even in a flood plain. An actual swamp.
Posted on 5/25/21 at 9:42 am to goofball
Those houses are on the low side of bluff road backing up to Alligator bayou. That area is and has been known to flood.
Posted on 5/25/21 at 9:43 am to Pintail
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That area is and has been known to flood.
But grand daddy said that it doesn't flood, and he's never wrong.
SCIENCE
Posted on 5/25/21 at 9:45 am to goofball
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But grand daddy said that it doesn't flood, and he's never wrong.
link?
Posted on 5/25/21 at 9:45 am to DownshiftAndFloorIt
Reminds me...There is a reason the house on Burbank Drive across from Lakeside is on stilts.
Posted on 5/25/21 at 9:47 am to Pintail
Its amazing that anybody decides to buy those houses and its criminal that they can be built there, but my buddy can't build a house on land that hasn't had an inch of water on it in 2 generations because of "drainage concerns." The local governments in this state are atrocious.
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