Today it is raining again. I am so tired of rain. I imagine I will be wishing for it in July and August though. We are under a flood watch and after the terrible flood this community suffered last year in 2007, I don't know if it could handle another. We lost the entire east side of our community. Over four hundred homes have been taken down now...either bought out by the refinery because of the oil spill or by the state of Kansas. The east side is a low, flat wilderness, fit only for a park, tennis courts or gardens. In fact, anything but housing.
The picture here is of the flood itself.
The second one is the east sideafter all the houses were taken down. It's real desolate. There's a real quandary about what to do with all that land. If left as it is, it will have to be mowed or the community will look even worse then it does now. That will be an expense too. We really need some low income housing or better yet some housing appropriate for remodeling for low income families. My suggestion is to buy a few older, well built homes and fix them up as either rentals or even better to sell. That way we could regain some of the lost population. The town needs a lot of infrastructure help as it is.
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