Stop making excuses for people’s ignorance and failure to insure their most valuable posession…….their house. You don’t have to be an “engineer” to have common sense. There’s never been a question about hard-working people in this area. Unfortunately, they screwed up by not having flood insurance.
One of the best substitute uses for low-value floodplain can be urban truck farms and community gardens that help provide locally grown fruits and vegatables.
State and federal support for leaving some of those former residential parcels as zoned for agriculture and community use only would help relieve food prices as well as fuel costs of trucking vegatables from California to feed the corn belt.
As climate change progresses, we’ll see more flooding, according to the scientists. “Flood management” practices are likely to continue to raise the level of the bed of the Mississippi and its tributaries, further adding to the increasing vulnerability of these floodplains.
Though different from the industrial farming practices now common in the Midwest, floodplain agriculture is practiced throughout the world; it is an opportunity in the U.S. that creates local jobs that cannot be outsourced overseas, as well as being more sustainable land management than presently practiced.
Doug Simpson
Wethersfield, CT
(where the rich fields along the Connecticut River flood every spring and have been farmed since before Europeans came to North America)
Normally I’d agree with you. But since we gave and continue to give billions to those fine,upstanding urban folk in New Orleans, shouldn’t we help the, not so urban folk in the midwest?
How come I haven’t seen a cup in my local grocery store collecting for them, or the local firehouse sending people to badger me at a redlight beggin for money for this cause?
Ooh, ooh, I know! THEY WHITE! And white = not right in this country now
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Stop making excuses for people’s ignorance and failure to insure their most valuable posession…….their house. You don’t have to be an “engineer” to have common sense. There’s never been a question about hard-working people in this area. Unfortunately, they screwed up by not having flood insurance.
One of the best substitute uses for low-value floodplain can be urban truck farms and community gardens that help provide locally grown fruits and vegatables.
State and federal support for leaving some of those former residential parcels as zoned for agriculture and community use only would help relieve food prices as well as fuel costs of trucking vegatables from California to feed the corn belt.
As climate change progresses, we’ll see more flooding, according to the scientists. “Flood management” practices are likely to continue to raise the level of the bed of the Mississippi and its tributaries, further adding to the increasing vulnerability of these floodplains.
Though different from the industrial farming practices now common in the Midwest, floodplain agriculture is practiced throughout the world; it is an opportunity in the U.S. that creates local jobs that cannot be outsourced overseas, as well as being more sustainable land management than presently practiced.
See, e.g. http://architecture.tulane.edu/news/549
and also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_agriculture
Doug Simpson
Wethersfield, CT
(where the rich fields along the Connecticut River flood every spring and have been farmed since before Europeans came to North America)
Dread,
Normally I’d agree with you. But since we gave and continue to give billions to those fine,upstanding urban folk in New Orleans, shouldn’t we help the, not so urban folk in the midwest?
How come I haven’t seen a cup in my local grocery store collecting for them, or the local firehouse sending people to badger me at a redlight beggin for money for this cause?
Ooh, ooh, I know! THEY WHITE! And white = not right in this country now