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Elsewhere in the world, houses on stilts are the norm. This solution seems a little weird to me; evacuating people is a lot easier than evacuating homes.

• bluGill 3y ago
  In most of the world we don't build where it might flood. It is generally easy to see where it floods and just not build there. In some places building where it can flood is done for some local reason, but that isn't normal for most places.
  • AlotOfReading 3y ago
    What area are you talking about that people don't build where it floods? It certainly isn't Europe (Netherlands, Rhine valley, Venice), it isn't the middle east, it isn't Africa (Niger River, Nile), it isn't South America, it isn't SE Asia, it isn't E Asia, it isn't central Asia, it isn't Australia, etc. I can't think of a single area that completely avoids building in potential flood zones, I can only think of governments that spend a lot of effort managing water so floods happen less frequently than they naturally would.
    • bluGill 3y ago
      Most people live near but not in the flood zone. So long as you are above high water it doesn't matter that the river is flooded.
      • AlotOfReading 3y ago
        That's fine, but all of the areas I mentioned are places where people build below the flood hazard level. Like, virtually the entire country of the Netherlands is a flood hazard zone, Venice floods nightly, Germany had the recent Rhine floods, Australia has building codes specific to construction in flood zones, the US has major urban centers in flood areas, and so on. I'm curious what area is being referred to where this sort of stuff doesn't happen.