Just amazing to see more land and property being raised and filled in. The subdivision Cottleville Trails built in the current FEMA floodplain. The STL composting company located at 1 lilly drive is now filling in, what I could guess will be a future subdivision. Lower St. Charles by Lake370 has raised the land and hwy 370 all being raised.
Not that I care, but I can only wonder what happens we have another flash flooding of Dardenne Creek. Will hwy 70 be fully underwater? Or I guess we just keep raising the flood rates for FEMA insurance for home owners.
Is there a way to make floodplains actually flood in world builder maps? I can place them ofc, but they never seem to actually flood in-game.
I am wanting an experienced mod user/Modder to help/advise me with the finding/creation of a Mod for the removal of floodplains with a Builder/Military Engineer.
I would need the following help;
- Floodplain file location
- Advice on how to mod game rules, e.g. allowing a unit to interact with a hex after a certain Tech/Civic
Any help/advice is greatly appreciated and if any of you think the ability to remove floodplains would be a nice addition; please upvote.
Or if you have and ideas for the Mod, please drop a comment giving suggestions.
Thanks again.
I have the test in two days (TX). So far, I've watched the two-day floodplain management 101 course, skimmed through (and I mean SKIMMED) the FEMA 480, and found a very old practice test online. I feel unprepared honestly, but I'm just trying to find flashcards online at this point. Does anyone have recommendations for things I may have missed? The FEMA 480 has questions for each unit at the end that I have been going through, as well. I work in water modeling but not much in floodplain ordinance.
[Article] Spatial Prediction and Digital Mapping of Soil Texture Classes in a Floodplain Using Multinomial Logistic Regression
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85577-2_55
link: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-85577-2_55#citeas
I do my best to avoid building districts on floodplains because I don't like having to rebuild and lose population, and prefer getting high pop cities from the farms. What about you guys?
We're relocating to Buffalo next month. We are buying a place in Amherst (near Lincoln Park). It's not in a floodplain and our insurance rep is telling us that he won't even sell us flood insurance because it's in an area that has never historically had any flooding.
What has just recently gone on with Ida, such as areas of NYC issuing flash flood warnings for the first time, and the downpours that happened in WNY in June, have given us pause though. I realize that historically, there has not been flooding in this particular area...but it seems like weather patterns are shifting and what used to be the way things were, is changing.
My fear is that all it takes is a storm like Ida to have been a titch to the west and the whole area would have seen a lot of damage, and it sounds like a lot of people didn't have flood insurance for that very reason: that it was never something that happened before.
Do you feel the situation has changed over the years? Have you reconsidered getting flood insurance? Or are we just being overly paranoid?
Edit - This thread has been very enlightening, You guys are great!
Anyone taken this exam here? I have a CivE background, the test is in a few days. I watched the Floodplain Management 101 sessions, but the FEMA 480 is super lengthy. Any practice exam or other materials would be highly appreciated. Feel kinda unprepared
[Article] Spatial Prediction and Digital Mapping of Soil Texture Classes in a Floodplain Using Multinomial Logistic Regression
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85577-2_55
link: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-85577-2_55
