have you located and looked at the topography map for your area?

[ensho]

so that you know for sure what to do and where to go if a 100 yr. flood comes your way.

seriously.

[Oregone]

1. No

Too busy hoarding guns for the zombie holocaust

[Gold Metal Flake]

8. Look, zombies will flat fuck your shit up.

I'm not joking. This is series.

[Dappleganger]

16. I'm ready!!!

Got my shotgun and chainsaw strapped to my Lara Croft hotpants!!!!

[ProdigalJunkMail]

23. remember ... cardio ... lots of cardio ... n/t

[ZombieHorde]

32. FYI, Zombie Holocaust is a fantastic movie, I highly suggest it. nt

[Iggo]

2. We had one of those about ten years ago.

People finally realized why they call it the Los Angeles Basin.

[Ozymanithrax]

3. Here in San Diego, we should be so lucky...

It is a lack of water that we suffer from.

[nadinbrzezinski]

39. You speak about that buster

I am in an area that a 100 year flood will mean a row boat out my window.

:hi:

[ThomWV]

4. The creek behind my house would have to come up 300 feet to touch us.

We have big hills here in West Virginia.

[TNDemo]

5. Or a 1,000 year one,

which we got in May. Most of the houses that flooded were above the 100 year flood plain.

[sinkingfeeling]

6. I'm on a hill and a flood would have to be about 60 to 80 foot deep to get to the house.

[haele]

33. Problems on hills are landslides during heavy rains/floodss -

We see that in SoCal all the time; especially in areas that have recently undergone development or where a brush fire has gone through.
Landslides and sinkholes... most people don't think about those problems when there's flooding or heavy rainss going on.

Haele

[sinkingfeeling]

48. My hill is very heavily wooded with 150 to 200 year old trees.

[begin_within]

7. Yes, I have

though a flood is not the danger here, in fact if there was a flood people would be scrambling to get to our neighborhood because it is a hilly area surrounded by canyons on 3 sides. The big danger here is wildfires, and the overlay for our neighborhood shows a high fire risk. There's also a (hopefully minor) earthquake fault very close by.

[bikebloke]

9. Here's a sea level rise map.

http://flood.firetree.net/?ll=43.3251,-101.6015&z=13&m=7

Not much good for those close to watershed flooding.

[shanti]

10. yup

two large convergent rivers and a dam nearby. i'm "above the flood plain" according to my HO insurance, but if the dam broke, all bets are off.

[XemaSab]

37. If the dam upriver here broke

half of California would be under water. :o

[LWolf]

11. Not an issue in my area. nt

[ProdigalJunkMail]

12. my home floods and we will be looking to catch the Ark...

or for Jesus' return...

sP

[SidDithers]

14. Me too...

Lake Ontario would need to rise by about 20 feet for my driveway to get wet.

Sid

[defendandprotect]

13. Floods and droughts -- our new future . . . "The Twilight Zone" . . .

plus increasing strenth of hurricanes -- cyclones, tornadoes -- and earthquakes!

But -- give a clue as to how to get this info you speak of -- link?

[Gaedel]

25. Hmmm

I know that Karl Rove had a wind machine. I didn't know he had an earthquake machine.

[defendandprotect]

30. Well, the Pentagon advised W on that aspect -- GW will create increasing earthquake activity...

Again -- the Pentagon memo on this has been scrubbed of that reference, but it

was there --

About 5 weeks ago, Obama also referred to our economic situation as a "Depression" --

that also disappeared and was replaced with "Recession" before I could pick it up.

[Codeine]

36. Nonsense, as usual. nt

[defendandprotect]

44. Unfortunately, melting glaciers and shifting plates . . . aren't nonsense ...

but wake up when you get around to it -- may be something left of the planet!

[ensho]

45. search for maps - topography maps - for your area

I checked a search for top. maps before I posted the thread and found them but I didn't go to the sites for myself as I live on an island where any heavy rain or storm surges drain off the island as soon as the rain or surge stops.

[dipsydoodle]

15. Yes

I'm c. 270 feet above sea level quite apart from being c. 90 miles inland. By the time such a flood reached me the whole of London , apart from Hampstead Heath , would be undersea and I'm guessing I'd be able to row to Paris.

[hobbit709]

17. It would take a 1000 year flood or more where I'm at.

80+% of Austin would be underwater first.

[superduperfarleft]

18. The entire city would have to be completely submerged before my front steps even got damp. n/t

[CrownPrinceBandar]

19. Yup.......

A 100 year flood hit the area I grew up 25 years ago this November. I know exactly where I'd go.

[Desertrose]

20. You would think that at 4500' I'd be safe from that "100 year flood"...

but not last Sept 10th.

I live at the base of a mountain and am high & dry at 4500+ feet altitude, but ya know what...we had a microburst and got about 2"+ in 45 minutes. (That's a whole lotta rain for the desert!!). Lived in this house for 13 years and never ever saw rain, hail & wind and water like that. Lost the railroad ties in the back yard and much of the front yard was washed away as well.

Water was within 1/2" from coming into the house. We were lucky...nothing really lost but some of my neighbors really got trashed...driveways, trees, mud though the houses. What a mess and it happened so fast you really didn't have time to do much about it! Still finding mud in strange places!

Ya think you got it all covered but you just never really know what Nature is gonna throw at you.

(We even made the Weather Channel & CNN!!)

[madrchsod]

21. i`m on high ground ...

if the water reaches my house we are all screwed...

[MineralMan]

22. Uh, I did that before buying the house I'm living in.

Doesn't everyone? There's not a chance in Hell that I would buy any house that might be subject to surface flooding under any circumstances. Not a chance. I do have a basement, so there's always the possibility that it will have water in it at some point, but I also have a sophisticated drain system and redundant sump pumps with backup power.

No floods for me, thanks.

[Dappleganger]

24. Our street has flooded before, under the worst of circumstances.

It became a newsworthy event with the local media video van parking in our driveway. Long story short, even in areas not located in flood zones there is a risk of flooding when pumps don't work or retaining ponds become overburdened. The county did install a new pump backup for the drainage between ponds and that fixed the problem.

The upside of the story is that all of our neighbors came OUTSIDE! People are usually stuck inside their homes but everyone came out that day, with their boats, ATV's and paddleboats for a real day of unusual fun. I had just received a new camera and used it everywhere, with some of those photos being used on the news that week. It was a lot of fun. but a bit unnerving to say the least.

BTW, we have been in another area (in VA) where the town experienced 100-yr. flood and it wiped out most roads back to the mountain ridge where we lived. People lost farms and lots of things, thankfully no one died. They did bring in the Nat'l Guard to help the elderly get out of town where it was the worst.

In a hurricane, even Cat. 5 we will stay here in the house as it is block w/a 10 yr. old hip-style roof built under Broward County standards (by the original owners). The closest emergency shelter is at the elementary school 1 mile away.

[Spike89]

26. live in a valley

In this part it is all dam controlled, used to flood yearly, now it "never" floods until the dam(s) burst, then you really won't get a chance to head for the hills unless you can swim.

[bvar22]

27. I used to live in New Orleans.

That is one reason why I now live on a ridge top in the Ouachita Mountains.

[pipi_k]

28. I'm at around 1300 feet above sea level here, on the side of a hill surrounded

by a "moat" type drain around the house. The drain only failed once during a very rainy spring when it rained like hell while the ground was still frozen and the drain couldn't handle the water.

Otherwise, I'm not too worried about floods.

[dixiegrrrrl]

29. Actually, I did look at a map for many outcomes before buying where we are.

Other than another Ivan, we are fine, at 400 plus feet sea level.

[annabanana]

31. I'm doomed... doomed I tell you

[Lisa0825]

34. Yes. In this area it's a good thing to be aware of. nt

[Codeine]

35. Flood event. nt

[greyl]

42. Harhar. nt

[nickinSTL]

38. actually, yes

I live about a mile from the 100 yr flood-plain as redefined under the new (and not yet in effect, I think) Corps of Engineers maps for the Mississippi in my area.

I also live up on a bluff, so I'm about as safe as it gets.

Just bought the house a year ago, and not being in the flood plain was a major issue, considering the enormous increase in flood insurance that will be coming for those in the flood plain when the new maps go into effect. Likely to devastate an already economically depressed area near here.

[Roon]

40. I live in the highest point of Denver Co.

32nd and Lowell. They call this area the "highlands" of course.

[donheld]

41. I live on Capitol Hill. Not as high as you, but I think I'll survive

[Roon]

46. Oh, I love capitol hill

I lived there when I was young, it was cool.

[ensho]

49. however, parts of DC where built on a swamp

and is surrounded by rivers, creeks, etc.

[scheming daemons]

43. I live at the highest point in my county. The last time a flood reached me, Noah had a boat

[Lost4words]

47. @ 7700' here!

[Roland99]

50. I'm not too far from the highest elevations of central FL

Even with a 14m rise in seas (according to a link up-thread), I'm quite safe. :)

I'm in a flood zone 'X' according to the closing papers.