Experts suggested that more data and education are needed as Texas and the rest of the country build in known flood plains.

  • NarrativeBear@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    If there is a acknowledgement that what you are building is in a natural flood zone, why not build according to the environmental conditions of the area?

    There must be homes designs that don’t look like the typical “American dream” single family home.

    Something on stilts comes to mind.

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      14 hours ago

      A house that looked almost exactly like this was swept away by the flood. It was an incredibly sad story (the family described the event in great detail). The family probably did everything they could’ve done. At a certain point the government NEEDS to intervene. A family can’t reasonably do their own weather analysis, flood plane analysis, or build and maintain their own alert system.

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      probably would be too expensive, and cost prohibitive, and even if they make that kind of house flooding can be severe enough where it can still destroy a house.