What about the people that were there before it became a flood risk area?
What then?
(PsychoChomp, Mon 26 Nov 2012, 10:45, 2 replies, latest was 13 years ago)

What about them?

( Kroney, Mon 26 Nov 2012, 10:46, Reply)

Do you hate them as well?

(PsychoChomp, Mon 26 Nov 2012, 10:47, Reply)

I wasn't commenting on them, Chompy.
I commented on the people that moved to flood risk areas and have now been flooded out, much to nobody's surprise. It was right there in my post.
( Kroney, Mon 26 Nov 2012, 10:49, Reply)

I'm pretty fucking sure anywhere that is flooded
has always been a flood risk area.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 26 Nov 2012, 10:48, Reply)

Well, he's technically correct in that rainfall and subsequent flooding
has become more of an issue and areas that historically haven't been flood risks are now more likely to be so, but it's nothing to do with what I actually said.
( Kroney, Mon 26 Nov 2012, 10:50, Reply)

I dunno, maybe so.
I tend to regard it as one of the things that it's really an idea to check. Not as in, "is this historically a flood risk" but more "is there a source of water within a mile that offers the tiniest chance of rendering my house a bit moist? This I can easily check by a) fucking looking and b) more pertinently, asking the vendors of paranoia and doom that are household insurers"
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 26 Nov 2012, 10:52, Reply)

Really, you shoudln't be entirely surprised
if you move to an area because of the pretty river and mountains that it may flood occasionally. Caveat emptor and all that.
( Kroney, Mon 26 Nov 2012, 10:55, Reply)