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I drove from Sacramento north on 99 by the SMF airport (death alley in the fog, UC Davis Medical Center once had the world's best trauma dept after the Irish Troubles were over because of crashes on 99), I saw a row of 20 giant earth movers lined up to build a new city north of Sacramento.

The Bush 43 Administration for once put a stop to it. To get flood insurance in this 100 year flood town, you should have had to put jacks on new houses, to hike them up when the rain started.

To get flood insurance in this 100 year flood town, you should have had to put jacks on new houses, to hike them up when the rain started.

Back in the 70's, I had a neighbor, an elderly gentleman, who grew up on the Mississippi. He said his, and his sister's house, would float, along with several of their farm structures. They would utilize cork oak logs for flotation. They would guy wire their structures so they stayed in place during the seasonal floods. He said on one flood his sister called him on the radio, saying she was afraid her house was going to roll off the logs. Her house was upstream of his, so he had no way to get to her, so he told her to Pray.