re: How did they build all those houses so fast off Burbank by BREC?

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Got mine for $209k 3 years ago and selling for $260-270 now. Don’t regret a thing

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so it hasn't appreciated a dollar in 3 years and barely keeping up with inflation?

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How did they build all those houses so fast off Burbank by BREC?
It looks like at least 100 houses that have gone up in less than a year.

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Planted seeds, fertilized real well and watered.

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This literally has frick all to do with whether a structure or development has or will flood in the future.

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Everything and nothing.

Each flood event is different, but the chances of an area that had never flooded is greater than an area that had never flooded; especially an area that didn’t flood in the grand daddy of all floods for our area.

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Meaning your point is completely invalid in terms of understanding what the structures being discussed are exposed to from a flood risk perspective.

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My point stands, if you didn’t flood in 2016 you are less likely to flood next time.[

quote]Tell me you don’t really understand our drainage and the threat of riverine, fluvial or pluvial flooding without saying you don’t understand the threat of riverine, fluvial or pluvial flooding. [/quote]

Having lived in EBR for years and having had property in flood areas, I believe I have a very good handle on our situation. All I did was post that the subdivisions built along Burbank East of Bluebonnet didn’t flood in 2016. If I’m wrong correct me, if not go jump someone else with your BS.

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This literally has frick all to do with whether a structure or development has or will flood in the future.

If the system that was responsible for 2016 was five miles east, west, north or south…or the low pressure system that caused it to become stationary was likewise positioned a few miles in any other direction…then the system would have flooded our area in similar and yet different areas and ways.

Meaning your point is completely invalid in terms of understanding what the structures being discussed are exposed to from a flood risk perspective.

Tell me you don’t really understand our drainage and the threat of riverine, fluvial or pluvial flooding without saying you don’t understand the threat of riverine, fluvial or pluvial flooding.

Post less regarding this.

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Kind sir, you're being downvoted because you are the one who is not correct, not the fellow to whom you are crudely responding. Bayou Fountain was cleared out and widened considerably around the Gardere area back in the late 1990s. Since then, it hasn't flooded like it used to do in the 1980s.

The 2016 flood was more of a "river" flood than a "rain" flood in that the worst of the flooding actually happened after the rain began to slacken and then the Amite River and Bayou Manchac maxed out from all of the rain runoff and reverse-flowed water everywhere. If your claim is correct, then Bayou Fountain--being attached to Bayou Manchac--should have also received some of Manchac's water and backed it up onto homeowners' lots there as well, but it did not because of the drainage work done along it 20 years before.

I’d rather die that’s have to live in the dump Baton Rouge.

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TheDude321

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Have an up vote sir

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You mean the shoddy homes with <$150/mo electric bills during the summer and are easy to cool to 72° even when it's 100° outside?

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DSLD has good contractors and bad.

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What area of Burbank are we talking about? I’m not in BR anymore but I recall they razing an area very close to the Burbank soccer fields. That area definitely flooded

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They hauled in a shitton of dirt (part of it from the detention pond) and built it up. Before all that was done, it absolutely flooded in 2016.

My build schedule is 21 weeks. $500k

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They hauled in a shitton of dirt (part of it from the detention pond) and built it up.

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Nobody hauled anything in. It was all dug on site. BR has required flood fill mitigation since 1987. Any dirt placed in the flood zone must have an equal amount of dirt removed from the flood zone. You must replace current air volume with the same amount of air volume. So the dirt below the water surface of a pond doesn't count.