http://www.whiznews.com/content/news/loc...flooding-update

The county I grew up in. That area is prone to flooding because you are in a deep valley between rolling hills. Nothing will top 1998. the population of one town went from 2000 to about 500

Flooding in a flood zone. This is like the campers who set up their tent in a dry river bed and then are confused why it all washes away when it rains.

Well Frank, back in the day they needed to build towns in the valley near rivers and railroads here because coal was booming. The configuration fed and clothed a lot of people for like 150 years (yea a very tiny number died in a flood once in awhile, was an accepted risk).. it was a good coal economy until it went to heck in the 1970s and 80s.

Its nowhere near as bad as it was say in the 1950s because they built a lot of dams to create lakes/state parks for flood control.

We have an area near us in Easton that constantly floods out. It has flooded since the beginning of time, yet dopes still move there and set up businesses. Every couple years it floods out and everyone gets all bent out of shape. The taxpayers fund the clean up and the rebuild and then in a couple years, it happens all over again. Absolutely absurd. I don't care if people live in a flood zone. I just don't want to hear about it when you wake up with a sunfish on your pillow.