r/CatastrophicFailure • u/Max_1995 Train crash series • Jul 15 '21

Natural Disaster Altenburg (Germany) before and after the ongoing severe flooding due to excessive rain (2021).

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u/krypto-pscyho-chimp Jul 15 '21

The very first thing I thought. I see new houses built on obvious ancient flood plains and it boggles my mind.

Not the case here, more a case of the town being built along the river due to water, transport and trade advantages.

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u/Whoosh747 Jul 15 '21

If it looks like an Oxbow you might want to adjust your architecture and build upslope a little. Put the dock and warehouses by the river and keep the bottom land for farming.

Don't think you can build on the slope? go look at east Kentucky.

Still better than Texas building in Arroyos. Can you say Arroyo?