According to this Associated Press story- many Central States towns that suffered the devastating floods are waiting for word whether FEMA- the government's "Federal Emergency Management Agency"- will engage in a buyout of properties in floodplains.
The Feds bought up thousands of properties destroyed by the Great Flood of 1993 and that keeps people from buying and building structures in flood plains.
In Cedar Rapids-IA- officials said that of the around 4000 homes flooded there- around half that number will have to be destroyed.
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