Beachgem house flooding over and over again?

They live in a flood zone and it’s “normal” where they live. They are raising the house after the last go round and it should take care of the flooding issue. Raising the house is very costly.

They’re raising it which can take years so it’s been a long process. Just permits take forever.

She has explained they don’t move because she works in the area and their kids are well established. She doesn’t want to uproot her family so she’s raising their house. Happens in that area… comes with the territory.

The city, where she lives had a major backlog and was not approving permits to raise houses. I believe they had tried to raise it before the storm that flooded it last time. We had major catastrophic and widespread flooding two years ago with a series of hurricanes that came through. They’re still rebuilding from that.

There are several neighborhoods that are known to flood every time we get a few inches of rain. I know multiple people in her situation… they bought a house that had never flooded before although it was in a flood zone and now it’s flooded two or three times in the last five years.

I live in the same city as her. The neighborhood she lives in is very “desirable” and everyone who lives there knows exactly what they’re signing up for since it’s in flood zone A. Same with everyone who lives on the beach, which is also flood zone A. Nearly all of the “desirable” neighborhoods here are in flood zone A - which means they’re right by the water and guaranteed to flood. Living in that specific neighborhood is also a status thing, imo. A lot of people go through the same situation as her - they flood, renovate, and repeat over & over again. They take the risk when choosing to live there, even the streets will flood during high tide or heavy rains. That neighborhood will always be desirable regardless of the flood zone, same goes for all other desirable neighborhoods in this area that are also in flood zones. Primarily populated by affluent folks.

Wait. Didn’t they raise the house??

Incredibly normal as someone who also lives in a Hurricane area. We can't just uproot our kids and homes every time a Hurricane comes. There are people in our area who have rebuilt their homes 5-7 times due to Hurricane damage.

She lives in an area that gets hurricanes every year.

Its the same house thats juzt been under construction this long..its taken years. They bought a house to live in while their main house gets built. Things cant happen overnight

Pretty normal in that area.…

She has posted a story where it took so long to get the permits they started the work and took the fine over continuing to wait. It did flood a couple times but the renovation/raising has been like 2+ (?) years at this point..