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Nashville flood victims agonize: Rebuild or leave?
Tennessean
| 06/06/2010
| Tennessean
Posted on 06/06/2010 3:36:40 AM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour
Nashville flood victims agonize: Rebuild or leave?
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; US: Tennessee
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour
The flood damaged at least 9,000 Nashville homes. So far, only 1,806 homeowners have filed for post-flood rebuilding permits, according to Metro codes departmentHonestly I think alot of this is the result of the economy. How many of these folks were on unemployment, or are now unemployed because their employer was flooded out to and is one of the many who just decided to throw in the towel and call it quits. Instead of rebuilding and reopening.
I be many of them cannot afford to rebuild, the rest couldn't get a loan from the bank in this economy if they wanted one.
This is a mess.
To: The Magical Mischief Tour
sad, I guess they are a red state.
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posted on
06/06/2010 3:48:10 AM PDT
by
scooby321
To: The Magical Mischief Tour
I have to ask myself what our ancestors would have done?
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posted on
06/06/2010 3:48:23 AM PDT
by
SLB
(23rd Artillery Group, Republic of South Vietnam, Aug 1970 - Aug 1971.)
To: The Magical Mischief Tour
The city of Franklin, IN condemmed and bought about 100 houses that had stood for around fifty years after our “once in a century” flood. They are tearing them down and will not allow rebuilding in the area.
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posted on
06/06/2010 3:48:54 AM PDT
by
1raider1
To: SLB
I have to ask myself what our ancestors would have done?
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Put their nose to the grind-stone and rebuild.
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posted on
06/06/2010 3:57:16 AM PDT
by
Irenic
To: SLB
They packed it up and left Europe to make a new world for themselves.
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posted on
06/06/2010 3:58:12 AM PDT
by
gdzla
To: The Magical Mischief Tour
Don't ask Haiti's Savior, Barack Obama, about Tennessee. He didn't even bother to vote "Present" there. But Sam Kinison, he wouldn't just vote "Present". He'd have an opinion. Sam would would probably suggest that they leave...
"You know, we've been coming here giving you food for about 35 years now and we were driving through the desert, and we realized there wouldn't BE world hunger if you people would live where the food is! YOU LIVE IN A DESERT!! UNDERSTAND THAT? ... NOTHING GROWS HERE! NOTHING'S GONNA GROW HERE! Come here, you see this? This is sand. You know what it's gonna be 100 years from now? It's gonna be sand!"
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posted on
06/06/2010 4:04:58 AM PDT
by
flowerplough
(Damn the middle-class social conventions that require me to mow all those violets and buttercups!)
To: scooby321
Maybe if it were just closer to Hawaii, POTUS would be able to recognize TN as one of the 57 states...
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posted on
06/06/2010 4:11:27 AM PDT
by
GnuHere
To: gdzla
They packed it up and left Europe to make a new world for themselves.
Democrats are lucky there isn’t a practical means of space travel, I would certainly leave this rock for a new world with conservative values.
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posted on
06/06/2010 4:31:42 AM PDT
by
BushCountry
( I spoken many wise words in jest, but no comparsion to the number of stupid words spoken in earnest)
To: The Magical Mischief Tour
How many trips has POTUS taken down to Nashville to console those folks?
He’s been to the oil spill three times between golf games and partying.
Boy he is really concerned for the plight of Americans! /sarcasm on!
To: The Magical Mischief Tour
Get the hell out! Go back to Germany, or Poland!
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posted on
06/06/2010 4:36:53 AM PDT
by
SkyPilot
To: SLB
If this had happened in the 1920’s...folks would have packed up and left the affected areas. Nobody would have rebuilt.
To: The Magical Mischief Tour
It's rough without insurance coverage. After Katrina hit, I found out my "hurricane" policy didn't cover God pushing the ocean up into my house (4 miles away and 22' above sea level). No flod plain, so no flood insurance. I got $7,200.00 for $83,000.00 in loss/damages, which meant a lot of self-help.
Three weeks ago I finished my last interior room and I'm plum tuckered with having something waiting on my attention day in and day out.
For those that decide to go a similar route in Tennessee, my hats of to them and my prayers are flying.
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posted on
06/06/2010 4:45:17 AM PDT
by
trebb
("I am the way... no one comes to the Father, but by me..." - Jesus in John 14:6 (RSV))
To: The Magical Mischief Tour
The ignored are always the hardest hit...
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posted on
06/06/2010 4:59:29 AM PDT
by
darkwing104
(Lets get dangerous)
To: scooby321
If I would venture a guess, most of the areas hit are ‘blue’. Not that it shold make a difference.
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posted on
06/06/2010 5:09:42 AM PDT
by
Perdogg
(Nancy Pelosi did more damage to America on 03/21 than Al Qaeda did on 09/11)
To: SLB
They have to look at it in a broader sense. What is the likelihood this will happen again? What will be the value of the home when restored versus what it costs to fix or sell as it is? What else could they do? Do they still have a job, or do they have better options available elsewhere?
To: SLB
I have to ask myself what our ancestors would have done?They would have started shooting at the British.
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posted on
06/06/2010 5:26:09 AM PDT
by
Caipirabob
( Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
To: SkyPilot
Whoa. It’s hard enough not the THINK about Helen Thomas, the David Duke of the White House press corp. That picture saved me at least one cup of coffee, this morning.
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posted on
06/06/2010 6:01:52 AM PDT
by
Prospero
(non est ad astra mollis e terris via)
To: flowerplough
I don’t quite understand your analysis but Nashville was a booming town before the flood. It will be again, too. The people here are a tough bunch and they we will survive.
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posted on
06/06/2010 6:22:13 AM PDT
by
beckysueb
(January 20, 2013. When Obama becomes just a skidmark on the panties of American history.)
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