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A former professor of mine once said that building a house in a floodplain is like setting up a tent ...
A former professor of mine once said that building a house in a floodplain is like setting up a tent on the interstate just because no cars are coming by right at that moment.
You chose to build there and the houses are not even above the 100 year floodplain which is the code.
"The floodplain is the top of the bank, so all of those walls are subject to going underwater and having extreme velocities," Clark said.
King County has since been changing its development policies to greatly restrict development in the floodplain, and to buy out and remove some homes and mobile-home parks to move residents out of harm's way.— All Today's News - Sightline Daily

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