How much will this cost long term?

[steff]

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[❤ mollymouser ❤]

I heard this referred to as a 500-year-flood.

The costs will be huge ~ and I expect to see higher insurance premiums as a result of this flooding.

[steff]

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[henryclay]

Nero fiddled while Rome burned, and today Obama is campaigning in Indiana for rejection. Good. Let's hope he stays distracted. We do need a new president.

Fresh from laying a wreath at the World Trade Center site in New York, President Obama turns his attention today back to national energy plan and advanced transportation.

He is scheduled to tour an Indianapolis transmission plant that makes hybrid propulsion systems for buses, the Associated Press reports.

Obama plans to tour the Allison Transmission plant and meet with workers. It will be his fifth trip to Indiana since becoming president. The state is considered a crucial battleground in next year's presidential race.

[fairlycrazy23]

Didn't we recently (5-10?years) have some big historic flood on the Mississippi

[❤ mollymouser ❤]

ks.water.usgs.gov/pubs/fact-sheets/fs.024-00.html

Significant Floods in the US in the Last Century

[henryclay]

New Orleans has had a 29% population drop from half a million to 340 or so thousand on account of one flood. It was 5 years ago when the Mississippi overflowed the city during Katrina.

Is that what you are referring to?

Seems I remember Bush caught hell because he wasn't down there holding back the waters.

I wonder if Obama has his golf shoes with him on his re-ejectioon campaign tour. Heck, I even wonder if he bothered to do an over-fly of the flooded middle part of the United States on his way to Indiana to ask the victims' relatives for campaign money.

[deziloooooo]

According to what I have seen regarding interviews with the people in charge on the ground it seems the Federal has been doing and giving all they can, FEMA is there, Seems Obama , granted not filling sand bags personally, possible some would like him to send his kids to do so, but seems on top of this tragedy, it is going to cost , it is going to hurt so many, it will raise Insurance rates, it is something we don't need but S happens..and like pigs seem to love S there will be the same AH who will go political on this, not really caring about the suffering and loss so many will suffer, many of them never to recover in their lifetimes, but for those AH , just another opportunity to get a misinformed BS diss into the POTUS , his Party that honestly will be forgotten as soon as it leaves their mouths.

[henryclay]

Good Lord. If the country is getting this treatment from Obama now, , , , with the election a year and a half away, I hate to think what the leadership picture wilkl be when the down and down hard politics start.

[Deleted]

Seems Obama , granted not filling sand bags personally, possible some would like him to send his kids to do so, but seems on top of this tragedy, it is going to cost

Hey, it would be the cheapest vacation that they would have taken since he got into office.

[Tennesseer]

"In Memphis, meanwhile, emergency workers handed out bright yellow fliers in English and Spanish that read, "Evacuate!!! Your property is in danger right now."
In the Memphis area, where local officials do not have the authority to order people to evacuate, they hoped the fliers would persuade them to leave. Bob Nations, director of emergency management for Shelby County said there was still plenty of time. The river is not expected to crest until Wednesday."

I will be heading downtown to my favorite river overlook on Tuesday or Wednesday to take some photos. This is what the river normally looks like from the overlook:



That is farm land (in the picture above) on the Arkansas side of the river. That area is already flooded.

Parts of the park and road in the picture below already having standing water and the river is expected to still rise another 3 or so feet before it crests. Sand bagging is on going.

The housing you see is up on a bluff so it is not in any danger:

[steff]

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[handyman2]

What will be the cost for all this? Nobody really knows. The recovery for all the natural disasters over the last couple months may very well break the bank of most insurers. They buy reinsurance but how long before the well runs dry is anybodys guess.

[deziloooooo]

Things like that is why Insurance is going up. We haven't had a Hurricane in what . 5/6 years, Florida, remember we had them over and over, but rates are climbing and Governor just basically gave Ins Companies Carte Blanche to raise to what ever.

So many companies are are not insuring at all..cutting back coverage of, pulling out of the State.

Only thing keeping them in the State on property is the automobile Insurence and other lines that are profitable, and they can't do one with out some coverage of the other, property.

Some more natural disasters like this, population density, infrastructure , you wonder if some of these Insurance companies who specialize in Property insurance will be doing none of this in the future and the only recourse will be government insurance, very high rates, we have that in Florida now.

Must have insurance in some form, other wise never get home loans for example and self insurance , todays prices on homes even depressed , not practical.

Not wanting to get into the whole thing but don't you have to say, possible all these natural disasters with the weather, climate changes, just possible, related to the old bugaboo, that terrible word, ok I will type it..stay back...ready go..

GLOBAL WARMING

{would love to have a smiley wearing a helmet now }

[Mad Dawg Wiccan]

I hope the idiots here look at this and take note. Sacramento has been the #1 area for the potentially most disastrous flood in history, and the politicians won't do anything about it.

[deziloooooo]

May 6, 2011 18:49:42 GMT -5 Mad Dawg Wiccan said:

I hope the idiots here look at this and take note. Sacramento has been the #1 area for the potentially most disastrous flood in history, and the politicians won't do anything about it.

We don't care about "potential"..we only care about the now and now we has gotten..MISSISSIPPI or better

MISSISSIPPI thar ya go kiddo's

[EVT1]

May 6, 2011 15:38:08 GMT -5 ❤ mollymouser ❤ said:

I heard this referred to as a 500-year-flood.

The costs will be huge ~ and I expect to see higher insurance premiums as a result of this flooding.

Nashville had its 1000 year flood last year. Kind of a disturbing trend, isn't it.

[❤ mollymouser ❤]

I hope people have flood insurance.

[Mad Dawg Wiccan]

Most homeowners around here are required to have flood insurance. Makes sense for those out on the flood plain, but my parents house is at an elevation of 220' and they still need to have it because the property borders a tiny creek which is about 25' below the level of their house. Just stupid.

[steff]

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[Mad Dawg Wiccan]

FYI, the creek behind my parents house has an average depth of maybe three inches and an average width of eighteen inches. Even in the worst storms, I never saw it rise to a depth of more than four feet.

[steff]

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[Deleted]

Or would they ask "are you on welfare? OH sorry, you're on your own now....doesn't matter if it's a natural disaster, you don't deserve to be helped out"

I don't know about anybody else but I would ask: Why the hell did you settle close to a river that is know to overflow it's banks at least once every 5 years or so.

To be fair I also asked why people settled in New Orleans, a city below sea level & located beside the Gulf of Mexico.

I would also expect someone to ask me what I was thinking if I bought a gas station located right beside an active volcano.

BTW: MN had a lot of snowfall & rain this winter. The Mississippi river overflows it banks almost every single time that happens. No big surprise here.