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Konick suggests the ordinance be amended to allow Rappahannock residents to build in a floodplain if they can persuade the administrator or the board of zoning appeals that the land has “never flooded in anyone’s memory.”
This would be done by presenting the affidavit or testimony “of at least two disinterested persons, that the property has not flooded during the past 50 years.”
This seems to place a premium on old-timers who can be summoned to suddenly remember that it has never rained anywhere in Rappahannock.
Which is really beside the point.
For as Sean Kilpatrick pointed out to the board of supervisors at its September 7 meeting, “A flood can happen at any time. It may not happen in this century but it will happen."
Betting that it won’t happen during the next 50 years because it hasn’t happened during the past 50 is sort of like betting on 50 in Vegas. You just don’t know when it will come up.
We join Kilpatrick in urging county officials to consider carefully how a flood plain is determined.
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