Originally Posted By akcaribouhunter:
The village of Crooked Creek is having the worst flood that they can remember.
How would you prepare for this?
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The best preparation is not living that close to the river. The next best involves a metric frick-ton of sandbags, heavy equipment, and trash pumps.
I've seen where Jersey barriers were used for portions of a flood wall, but that was for small flooding. This is another level, and concrete walls, levees, pumps, etc.. If the water weren't flowing, just having houses on stilts might be doable, but with a river like that, it might still wash them away if it erodes the soil deep enough. Maybe huge, deep piers and super tall stilts like the houses on the ocean in Florida?
A solution capable of preventing flooding from this sort of thing might be more expensive than just moving, unfortunately.