Buyers were not told the land would flood..on purpose

[samintx]

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/ho...231188.php

I cannot. Image this could happen..and who is liable? Greed

[Pam]

It's called Texas. Residents used to be able to inquire as to what chemicals were being used or manufactured at nearby plants. They no longer can do so.

[cbelt3]

Criminal planning and zoning. River cities have the same problem, then cry for help when nature does what it's supposed to to. My father worked VERY hard against this sort of thing, starting with his landmark research on river flooding after the '72 floods. He would personally go to P&Z meetings and explain why they should NOT build on this 'cheap farmland'. He would often get thrown out. (That's right, they threw out a local University professor and one of the world's top experts on river flooding.)

[OWC Jamie]

"We had no idea - we were not told," Soule said. "Why did they build a house here if they knew it was inside a flood pool? If we would have known, we would not have purchased this house."

Yes you would have.
You would have weighed the odds of a flood and flood damage against increased travel time to work / cost to live elsewhere and would have bought it just the same.
Just like the people who live on hillsides that crumble, beach houses that are subject to flooding and erosion, houses on a fault line and houses over limestone deposits prone to collapsing, or surrounded by tall pines that can fall in a nor'easter or huricane.
You would have taken the risk.
Because you gotta live somewhere.

What a load of whiney crap.

[DeusxMac]

billb wrote:

"We had no idea - we were not told," Soule said. "Why did they build a house here if they knew it was inside a flood pool? If we would have known, we would not have purchased this house."

Yes you would have.
You would have weighed the odds of a flood and flood damage against increased travel time to work / cost to live elsewhere and would have bought it just the same.
Just like the people who live on hillsides that crumble, beach houses that are subject to flooding and erosion, houses on a fault line and houses over limestone deposits prone to collapsing, or surrounded by tall pines that can fall in a nor'easter or huricane.
You would have taken the risk.
Because you gotta live somewhere.

What a load of whiney crap.

Whiney?
Like...

billb wrote:
I planned for retirement, but Bill Clinton's first term tax increases wiped me out.

http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?2...sg-1689640

[bfd]

DeusxMac wrote:
[quote=billb]

"We had no idea - we were not told," Soule said. "Why did they build a house here if they knew it was inside a flood pool? If we would have known, we would not have purchased this house."

Yes you would have.
You would have weighed the odds of a flood and flood damage against increased travel time to work / cost to live elsewhere and would have bought it just the same.
Just like the people who live on hillsides that crumble, beach houses that are subject to flooding and erosion, houses on a fault line and houses over limestone deposits prone to collapsing, or surrounded by tall pines that can fall in a nor'easter or huricane.
You would have taken the risk.
Because you gotta live somewhere.

What a load of whiney crap.

Whiney?
Like...

billb wrote:
I planned for retirement, but Bill Clinton's first term tax increases wiped me out.

http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?2...sg-1689640


miley-laughing001:

[Ombligo]

Bill is pretty much right - most would have bought anyway.

Truth be told, no place is safe from disaster. Whether it is wildfires in California (or Tennessee), Hurricanes in the SE, Tornadoes in the midwest, NorEaster's in New England, Blizzards in the north.. then toss in the infrequnt events - earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunami's, elections, whatall.. No place is really safe, you decide your comfort level, roll the dice and hope it is covered by insurance if the worse happens.

[btfc]

"The Control of Nature" - John McPhee


https://www.amazon.com/Control-Nature-Jo...0374522596

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Control_of_Nature

[pdq]

cbelt3 wrote:
Criminal planning and zoning. River cities have the same problem, then cry for help when nature does what it's supposed to to. My father worked VERY hard against this sort of thing, starting with his landmark research on river flooding after the '72 floods. He would personally go to P&Z meetings and explain why they should NOT build on this 'cheap farmland'. He would often get thrown out. (That's right, they threw out a local University professor and one of the world's top experts on river flooding.)

Something about "shooting the messenger" comes to mind...

[Filliam H. Muffman]

In January, one of my brothers was getting ready to put a deposit on a house. I gave him a couple of borderline painful nudges to look at historical flooding. He stopped looking in that town because most of the town would be under water if they had a 2017 Houston style flood.