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Originally Posted by RWebb
I got your point.
Their property taxes may or may not cover the cost.... and, of course, others with high value homes in low risk areas are also paying large prop. taxes.
BTW - how is your mushroom farm/carpet doing?
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LOL, i put down beach towels and walked on em and it soaked up all that flood debris
It was dry the next morning.
I did some more checking on the great flood of 1938 (before they built the prado dam, sepulveda dam, hansen dam, and whittier narrows dam).
At the time it was the 5th largest flood in US history, 115 people died and the flood affected over 20 cities. 5,601 houses were destroyed. If it happened the same way today it would be closer to a million.
At it's peak it flowed 580,000 cubic feet of water per second.
Here's some pics that were local to me:
Buena Park, near knotts berry farm:
A couple from Anaheim
One from Fountain Valley, about 20 miles downstream from where Prado dam is now:
Here's one from Long Beach:
