Lincoln, NE
Basements provided crop storage and inclement weather protection. My hometown was in a flood-plain and it still had basements in nearly every home. You just did not put anything valuable down there.
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Quoted from bdw85:When I was living in the North Bottoms during college my basement apartment flooded twice. Not from water ingress from the rains, but from the basement drains backing up due to the sewer system being overloaded during rain. I was happy to have it during tornado season but you definitely did not want to have anything irreplaceable down there.Probably not as many as were lost in barns or warehouses with leaky roofs.
What good are basements when the whole town is under 2' of water. How did you survive the great flood? My house in Winslow was destroyed.
Quoted from bdw85:When I bought my house in Fremont I had the luck of picking something on the north side of town away from the Platte. When the great deluge came in 2019 the entire south part of Fremont was underwater but I was fortunate enough to not get a single drop of water in my basement. All of my games lived to see another day. Sorry to hear about your house, hopefully insurance made things right.
Those were some crazy times. I heard the whole town was cut off from all 4 directions. They had to have the National Guard deliver groceries.
As for my house and commercial property, it was paid for. I did not carry flood insurance. I was already living in Lincoln at the time and could survive without the lost income.
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The Econo-slab thing is a new idea. I would not want to be on the experimentation side of that. Plus, I like my basement.
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Quoted from punkin:Can't argue with that. Makes you stronger if you carry a bag of grain everywhere you go too.
It beats having to carry a stone around.
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