OT: South Carolina Floods

[Fishy]

My parents got zoned as one AFTER the fact - 25 years after purchasing the home. And no other house on the street is. My father has been fighting it for 2 years. It is expensive to the point that it is making them rethink staying in the home (they are retired).

Same thing happened to me.

I live on a ridge and can see two mountain ranges from my deck. The subdivision has 32 homes.

Somehow, someway, they decided that 1/4th of one house in the entire division is magically in a flood zone.

It's a serious ding - the flood coverage is manually underwritten and is horrifically expensive. You're also completely on your own - the process of trying to amend the map is very expensive and there is nothing but resistance at every turn.

 

[White Dwarf]

I live in Wilmington NC. I measured 18" of rain on my backyard rain gauge.

 

[ctchamps]

I live in Wilmington NC. I measured 18" of rain on my backyard rain gauge.

Hope you didn't have damage.

 

[HuskyCLT]

I live in Wilmington NC. I measured 18" of rain on my backyard rain gauge.

How is Wilmington? I casually heard there was some damage, but never really saw how bad anything was or the severity. Is Wrightsville and downtown OK?

I lived there back in 2010 when we had a pretty crazy rainfall (22.54" over 5 days). I don't remember a ton of damage, mostly just some back roads/neighborhoods having flooded roads. Then again, I was in college and thinking more about hurrikegs when class was cancelled. Hope everything is okay your way.