On Sat, 8 Apr 2017 22:38:12 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

On 4/8/2017 8:48 PM, wrote:

In many cases you can't even get a building permit in a flood plain
up here.


Why would you want one? Unless you are building a house on stilts.
You would be surprised what is considered floodplain - and you would
never be allowed to build in the majority of Florida - and definitely
not New Orleans.under our rules.

Myself, if a house needs a sump pump, I'm really not too interested.
I grew up in a house where when it rained, water from the street would
often flow in the front door, down the basement steps, and out the
cellar drain. That got old REAL fast. Dad ended up building a brick
wall around the front porch and we had a "flood gate" that closed off
the entrance if we were expecting heavy rain. The "wake" from the
passing trucks was then stopped by the gate. He also raised the front
porch about 8 inches higher than the living room floor and poured a
"retaining wall" around the front of the foundation to guide the water
around to the driveway. We had a 12 or 14 inch tile from a catch basin
in the driveway between our place and the neighbor's, and in a heavy
rain storm it would run full.. We were at a low point in the street,
and our street was basically at the bottom of a hill where we got
water running down several streets onto ours - with the "river flats"
behind us. The creek flooded every spring but the flood level was
never closer than about8 feet below the back/bottom end of out lot,
and the lot sloped enough that the basement floor level was about even
with the level of the back of the lot. We didn't have or need a sump
pump because the cellar drain was open to daylight down in the
"flats", but occaisionally we'd have a rat come up the drain into the
basement.. In 1967 the town built a park in the old river flats


I had enough of flooding living there, so I look very close at
drainage issues when I look at a house or property today!!!!