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Originally Posted by Sliver
Dude, people in the Calgary area do. not. give. a. fata. about flooding. They pretend it won't happen even though it keeps happening. Sunnyside. The big houses along Elbow. There are so many neighbourhoods that will flood with almost certainty and southern Albertans are like, sign me up! I'll never understand. Full neighbourhoods built in flood plains.
I'm not sure if this is totally true, but I've clung to it for a few years: in most cities it's very poor communities situated in flood plains. Calgary is a weird outlier in that we have upscale neighbourhoods in flood plains.
And then look at High River...can you imagine living in a place called High River and then being shocked when it floods?
So I'm not surprised by DMF development at all. It's just what people do around here. I think there are strength in numbers whereby so many people live in the flood plain that they collectively just pretend they don't. If you were the only guy about to build a house in this area, you absolutely would not do it in a known flood plain. But as soon at 10,000 other people do, these guys start a-buildin'.
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It's just weird becuase this is all greenfield development, while the flood "mitigation" is still underway. It's not even a distant memory! Hopefully insurers are smart enoguh not to cover these places.