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To: Round Earther

“For a thousand bucks a week, you would think they would keep your kid safe. But they thought they could squeeze out a few more million by building in the food plain.”

A bit harsh because the camp was founded far before the law requiring new construction to be above the 100 year flood plain - something not mentioned in the article.

Yes, camp management could have over the years implemented a plan to move camp sites away from the river as improvements and new construction happened but even that would not have helped much this time.


16 posted on 07/11/2025 4:26:31 AM PDT by ByteMercenary (Election 2020 was stolen by mail-in voting.)
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To: ByteMercenary

“A bit harsh because the camp was founded far before the law requiring new construction to be above the 100 year flood plain.”

Yes, but the construction of the new cabin occurred ~95 years after the camp was founded and long after the area of the camp was designated as a floodway which is far different than a 100 year “flood plain.”

By the way, would you house your children in a floodway?


18 posted on 07/11/2025 8:08:09 AM PDT by Round Earther
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To: ByteMercenary
Yes, camp management could have over the years implemented a plan to move camp sites away from the river as improvements and new construction happened but even that would not have helped much this time.

How did all these older-construction cabins (pre-100yr floodplain rules) not get washed away in all the floods the last 50 or 100 years?
19 posted on 07/12/2025 6:27:46 PM PDT by Svartalfiar (-)
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