https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:39:17 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/living-in-a-flood-zone#post-2635012 Tue, 11 Oct 2016 06:12:25 +0000 maddyz 2635012@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mama Bird: there were buildings in lic without elevators and power for months. But some of the newer ones have done things like move all the mechanical parts to higher floors so there will be less damage.</p> <p>I have a plan for if we have to move out for a while in the back of my head... But again, we rent and that's different. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/living-in-a-flood-zone#post-2634846 Mon, 10 Oct 2016 14:18:58 +0000 Mama Bird 2634846@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@avivoca: @T.H.O.U.: @hellobeeboston: @Miss Ariel: @mrsjd: thank you all! So much to think about... especially with all the awful news about Hurricane Matthew now.</p> <p>@maddyz: we're in an NYC high rise too! So it's not so much the safety threat as the possibility of spending weeks without power or some other utility. And elevators of course. And that's just how it is now... I'm really having a hard time wrapping my mind around the projected sea level rise maps. Granted, they're for like 100 years from now, but if these projections are on target, how soon will this start? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/living-in-a-flood-zone#post-2634340 Sun, 09 Oct 2016 06:23:11 +0000 maddyz 2634340@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We rent in a high rise that would have flooded during Sandy. We will be here as long as we are in NYC I think, but we always joke "weather permitting." They have gotten smarter about how they build these buildings so the recovery time after shouldn't be so long. But there were buildings in our neighborhood without power for months. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/living-in-a-flood-zone#post-2634112 Sat, 08 Oct 2016 09:13:14 +0000 mrsjd 2634112@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I live in New Orleans, so it's all a flood zone if you want to live in the city (as opposed to suburbs an hour drive away). We plan to stay but we did buy a house in the best zone and have flood insurance. That said, like Miss Ariel noted, some of the recent flooding in Baton Rouge happened to areas completely outside the traditional flood zone. No matter my zoning from now on, I'll always carry flood insurance. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/living-in-a-flood-zone#post-2634099 Sat, 08 Oct 2016 07:41:47 +0000 Miss Ariel 2634099@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@hellobeeboston: yes. Our old home was in a flood zone, while our new one isn't. The flood insurance was or old home is over twice as much, plus we added contents to the new house since we sadly discovered we didn't have contents coverage before. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/living-in-a-flood-zone#post-2634097 Sat, 08 Oct 2016 07:39:47 +0000 Miss Ariel 2634097@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm definitely In a unique situation here, but our house is/was in a flood zone. Of course, it was in a flood zone that had never flooded. In fact our house was on a hill, our driveway is an incline, and our house was only half a foot short of being elevated enough to not require flood insurance.</p> <p>Either way, two months ago with the crazy flooding in Louisiana our house did flood and received about 2.5 feet of water. </p> <p>Of course we know several people whose houses did flood that weren't in a flood zone, since the amount of water was so unprecedented. Basically in all the known history of people living in these areas it hasn't flooded till now, but for a lot of people that didn't matter. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/living-in-a-flood-zone#post-2634081 Sat, 08 Oct 2016 05:58:46 +0000 hellobeeboston 2634081@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm guessing insurance costs might be much higher (?) so that might prohibit me from buying in a flood zone.... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/living-in-a-flood-zone#post-2634077 Sat, 08 Oct 2016 05:10:45 +0000 T.H.O.U. 2634077@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It's hard because I don't know that all flood zones flood equally as often. Some areas are low lying flood zones but flood once a century or something. Others flood monthly at any heavy rain. </p> <p>If you're just talking hurricane flooding, yes I would still live in that area. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/living-in-a-flood-zone#post-2633911 Fri, 07 Oct 2016 17:54:03 +0000 avivoca 2633911@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would move out. A friend of mine's home was flooded twice in three months because of catastrophic rain events. I would not want to deal with that. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/living-in-a-flood-zone#post-2633898 Fri, 07 Oct 2016 17:25:38 +0000 Mama Bird 2633898@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>If you live in a flood-prone area, do you plan to stay, or are you trying to move out?</p> <p>We're outgrowing our apartment, and I'm so torn about finding a new place... I've got 100 reasons to stay in the same neighborhood, and only one reason to leave. We're in a flood zone. Usually it's no big deal, but when Sandy happened people were picking up the pieces for months. If we find a place that should last us at least a decade, or longer... who knows what could happen. We wouldn't really run the risk of drowning (it's all high rise buildings here), but we might lose all our savings if we buy a place and can't sell it.</p> <p>I guess I'm curious if others have dealt with this, and whether you stayed put or moved. No one around here seems to be worried at all. I don't know if I'm being too dramatic, or if it's just hard for people to imagine dramatic things disrupting their daily life, so they don't think about it. </p>