House flooded

efil4stnias said
yeah i meant in my 25 years in insurance, ive never heard of FEMA buying the property to become "open space" - they may do in very rural areas, but in metropolitan areas, it would cost them 3x the cost to elevate to give you FMV for your home. FEMA would be broke, flood insurance would be cost-prohibitive and we would be up schitts creek in S LA.

Baton Rouge got it again Tuesday as well. i have 2 clients in BR now doing tear outs. One is BACK in Lake Charles as well on a 6000 sq ft home they JUST FINISHED IN MARCH from 2020 Hurricane.

I dont remember a time when we have had this much precipitation to start the year.

Gotcha. Yeah I would think they would be more inclined to lift it. It's a nice big house that would be perfect if not for the annual all natural indoor swimming pool...

superchuck500 said
Look into it. I know of a few properties that went through that program.

Are the guitars and gear okay this time?

We already submitted after the last flood. The state approved us and it's just waiting on FEMA to review and approve. We will be adding this claim to it which I'm sure will strengthen our case for getting the house lifted.

The guitars are still all spread out at my mom's and a friends house from the last flood so they are fine. I think some of the gear might be in a rubber maid container in the garage so I'll find out if that made it through when we clean out the garage this weekend and take pictures of stuff to see if it's been ruined. :(