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1952 all other years follow a 4 year cycle the years that follow the 4
year cycle are 1965 , 1969 , 1993 , 1997 , 2001 , if this pattern continues the years to watch for high water are 2009 , 2013 , 2017 , 2021 etc... |
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 Winona MN 2001 Upper Mississippi Flood Pictures |
 Alma WI 2001 Upper Mississippi Flood Pictures |
 Cochrane WI 2001 Upper Mississippi Flood Pictures |
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 Fountain City WI 2001 Upper Mississippi Flood Pictures |
 Wabasha MN 2001 Upper Mississippi Flood Pictures |
After seven years of writing complaints to all levels of Government with no serious response from any , I decided it's time to expose the tactics use against the American people so they can mount a adequate defense against the erosion or their Constitutional Rights . I have received enough evasive and disingenuous responses to convince me that to get anything done the people must hire a Lawyer or get News coverage .
The bait and switch :
The B Zone flood zone rating is the bait part where people built legally and now
the B Zone will be eliminated on newer flood maps . This will switch a lot of
those properties into a Special Hazard Flood Zone . They can be grandfathered at
the base price if they buy flood insurance before the new flood map is effective
but when they go to sell their property could have a much bigger disadvantage than
pre 1974 construction which is grandfathered at the base price . The new price
depends on the lowest floor compared to the anticipated flood level and
insurance can be mandatory at five or more times the base price . Some
properties are effectively condemned in resale value since no buyer in their
right mind would pay $3,000 to $6,000 per year on flood insurance . This is a
nation wide trend some of the areas to look at are Green Bay WI , California , and many others just to name a few . This uses unfair insurance
practices which punish home owner with potential condemnation which covers up
the failure to disclose at the time of purchase and construction because the
rules of the game were changed in the middle of the game . It then uses the home
owners as pawns to force the Cities to comply with FEMA
standards that the Army Corps of Engineers does not comply with on their own
work .
The price gouge :
On one side of the street here flood insurance is mandatory at FIVE times the
base price on the other side of the street flood insurance is optional at ONE
time the base price at the same elevation . The 1975 HUD map of the flood area never adjusted the anticipated flood level
to match the map . This made the map defective from day one in 1975 making a
entrapment situation by disguising the truth for building requirements . FEMA's
idea to remedy this problem is correct the defective map and include the
other side of the street . The other side of the street will then have the grandfather option
of one time the base price till resale so the victims of the price gouging will
never be made whole and the new map will cover up the whole entrapment thing .
This flood zone is all because of a one time event of a small amount of water caused by a
man made disaster in damming up a river exaggerated into bigger natural disaster
threat . The cities have defended themselves from future occurrences to
the best of their ability and the 2001 flood proved their work as more than
adequate . The 2001 flood also washed out a section of the Army Corps of
Engineers dike road for dam 5 which is not built to FEMA Standards .
The rule of
bureaucracy :
Negligence to enforce existing State Laws and Federal regulations has
created a large amount of damages from law application
inequity that are now ready for litigation . This has turned into a money making racket
for FEMA as each building violations means extra income for FEMA for not
enforcing Federal Regulations and State Laws on Cities and less money for the
people . This violates the " Rule of Law " because Cities can violate the law
by permitting illegal construction with no consequences for over 30 years now and the victims of the violation get
the bill for the illegal construction . The State of Wisconsin has
the power to do several things including enforcing existing Laws or contesting the embellishment
of the flood threat here but has done nothing to protect the individuals who pay
for Government . (*1)
The Preventable man made disaster
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FEMA's has also failed to
deal with the cause of the problem which is the inactions and actions of the Army Corps of
Engineers which blames the victims for this preventable man made disaster
. The Mississippi River lock system is not built to FEMA standards and does
nothing to protect the people and property along the Mississippi and the people
and left to fend for themselves and meet FEMA standards . The local people who
watch the river level know that before spring flooding the river control is holding
back possibly saving water for the dry summer to keep the barges running then
the river gets out of control and it is too late to catch up then it's called a
natural disaster . The only thing that Government works together on is
pointing blame away from themselves instead of doing their own job . The timing is perfect with the New Orleans ruling against the Army Corps
of Engineers for a preventable man made disaster that should help with
media coverage and or litigation .
Owen Krahn , Buffalo City , 56 W. 13th Street , Buffalo City WI , Phone (608) 248-2646
(*1)
Wisconsin State Law
NR 116.01 Purpose. (1)
The Wisconsin
legislature in enacting chapter 614, laws of 1965, recognized that floodplain
zoning is a necessary tool to protect human life, health and to minimize
property damages and economic losses. Municipalities are required by s. 87.30
(1), Stats., to adopt reasonable and effective floodplain zoning ordinances
within their respective jurisdictions to regulate all floodplains where serious
flood damage may occur within one year after hydraulic and engineering data
adequate to formulate the ordinance becomes available. If a municipality has a
floodplain zoning ordinance already in effect, the pro-visions in s. NR 116.05
shall apply.
(2)
The purpose of these rules is to provide a
uniform basis for the
preparation and implementation of sound floodplain regulations for all
Wisconsin municipalities, to:
(a)
Protect life, health and property;
(b) Minimize expenditures of public monies for costly flood control projects;
(c) Minimize rescue and relief efforts, generally undertaken a the expense of
the general public;
(d) Minimize business interruptions;
(e) Minimize damage to public facilities such as water mains, sewer lines,
streets and bridges;
(f) Minimize the occurrence of future flood blight areas;
(g) Discourage the
victimization of unwary land and home buyers; and
(h) Prevent increases in the regional flood from occurring which will increase
flood damage and may result in conflict and litigation between landowners.
Federal Regulations
http://www.fema.gov/business/nfip/intnfip.shtm
10. Why is participation in the NFIP on a community basis rather
than on an individual basis?
The National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 (PDF
446KB) allows FEMA to make flood insurance available only in those areas where
the appropriate public body has adopted adequate floodplain management
regulations for its flood-prone areas. Individual citizens cannot regulate
building or establish construction priorities for communities. Without community
oversight of building activities in the floodplain, the best efforts of some to
reduce future flood losses could be undermined or nullified by the careless
building of others. Unless the community as a whole is practicing adequate flood
hazard mitigation, the potential for loss will not be reduced sufficiently to
affect disaster relief costs. Insurance rates also would reflect the probable
higher losses that would result without local floodplain management enforcement
activities.
14. What happens when a community does not enforce its floodplain management
ordinance?
Communities are required to adopt and enforce a floodplain management ordinance
that meets minimum NFIP requirements. Communities that do not enforce these
ordinances can be placed on probation or suspended from the program. This is
done only after FEMA has provided assistance to the community to help it become
compliant.