Originally Posted by onwebcam

Those "protections"were really nothing more than a federal land grab. They bought up shitloads of waterfront property all over my town for pretty much nothing. Property that has had homes on it for 100+ years. The flood here as well as pretty much everywhere else around that time was deliberate. They held back the dams way too long and released all of the water at once. It was crazy. In no time 100+ year floodplains were 3-4ft under water and this is after the rain had stopped. The water came so fast shit was snapping telephone poles miles away from the dams.