Flood complaints still pour in

I was flooded in 2005 and had to rebuild back due to no help from the government except a SBA loan which made it difficult to pay 2 mortgages. In
September 2009 we are flooded again except this time our house came off of the foundation and floated 80 feet away. Today we have more than 4 feet of water in our yard again. Cobb County wants me to build a house back and raise it 4.6 feet. Why would I want a 18 ft. basement and why would I want to go back to be flooded again today proves that will happen. I think that Cobb County should buy us out and let us go on with their lives. We are receiving no help from the government except enough rent to get into a rental house. I think the county and government could do more for us if they wanted to. I know they can not help the rain but they can stop people from building back to be displaced again especially the one's that keep getting flooded over and over again. I moved into my home in 2000 and we have had water in our yard every year since we moved their.

I love this....TWICE you say "we received NO help from the government...EXCEPT a 1)Loan to rebuild and 2) money to rent a house. What the hell more do you want? Maybe you should do you own research and don't buy or build in a FLOOD PLAIN! Or if you do...BUY FLOOD INSURANCE!

Truly amazing....

Okay "Taxpayer" snottypants...It probably wasn't on a flood plain when they got it and, it probably has yet to be considered a flood plain, resulting in the reason they DO NOT HAVE FLOOD INSURANCE. Why the crap do you even care??? You live in Washington...get a life you loser.

I visit this forum from time to time..Always alot of prejudice opinionated people here in Douglasville area/.....I wonder if the floods in your area is a reflection of karma....I guess you reap what you sew...To all the biggets in your area who are still surfing for funds...Goody for you!!!!

Taxpayer wrote:

I love this....TWICE you say "we received NO help from the government...EXCEPT a 1)Loan to rebuild and 2) money to rent a house. What the hell more do you want? Maybe you should do you own research and don't buy or build in a FLOOD PLAIN! Or if you do...BUY FLOOD INSURANCE!
Truly amazing....

Half the homes in Cobb which were deemed significantly damaged were not in the flood plain. Some of the homes which were in the flood plain did not used to be in the flood plain but after excessive development around the flood plain and with mountains of dirt brought in to raise areas above the flood plain they had to move the flood plain a year ago bringing more into it. They had houses in the 500 year flood plain wiped out and homes not in the restricted 100 year flood plain or in the 500 year flood plain got flooded anyway.

A lot of it is the governments fault, they allow development in areas they should not, they maintain an artificial level to the Chattahoochee river, they took over the flood insurance program and let insurance companies pick the hazards they insurance.

If they can bail out these banks they can bail out these people and should. For those of you that don't know the government runs flood insurance not insurance companies. The government buys homes in flooded areas not to help people but to control the governments repetitive losses since the government pays the insurance tab with people get flooded out who do have flood insurance. The problem is that they take their sweet time about it. It takes them a year to decide on what homes they are going to buy. Then it can take as long at 3 years to fully implement the program of buying the homes. If you have a flooded home the government is going buy and the government buys it in 18 months that is record speed more likely you should expect 2 years to pass. Meanwhile you have to have a place to live, often that is in the flooded house so the money spent fixing the place up if you can even do that is wasted.

2 or 3 years is too long for a family of limited means to wait for an answer from the government.