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Originally Posted by Bigtime
Disagree 100%, come the next flood these residents (myself included) will know to move all valuables and other belongings higher up. Had I spent 2 hours doing that last June we would have lost next to nothing.
However like this resident I clearly see a value in where I live, and we are taking some very big steps to mitigate our home from the next flood, and in essence have a floor of the house that will be "spray & wash" with almost nothing that will need to be thrown away.
Now we see residents doing what they can to mitigate the effects of future flooding, the question becomes what will our various levels of government do? 
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I don't know if I can word this nice enough, but I'll give it a shot. I live nowhere near the river, and that morning I was in my basement and heard the water rushing under the drain. I was worried enough that I moved a lot of stuff away from the drain and basically made sure that nothing was down that I would be really worried about.
I get that not everyone had that luxury, and of course some of the flooding was in areas where it couldn't be foreseen. I have zero issue with the governments funding people for losses, and I genuinely feel bad for them/you. But seemingly no one moved things? It just seems somewhat incomprehensible to me that people who live close to the river needed a harsh reminder that they should move valuables away from the potential flooding.