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26 years of personal experience isn't enough?[/quote]

It's great that you have lived there so long and have never had any flooding issues. But to say that no one does is just patently untrue. No, the entire city does not flood. I live in a neighborhood that's on a hill, and have never had any issues. But the parts that do flood are a symptom of a city that has mismanaged its sewer infrastructure for decades. And it's callous and false to claim that your fellow Alexandrians don't have any real problems, because some of them have really suffered in these floods. [/quote]

We live in Seminary Hill. When Bill Euille was mayor I sent him photos of our front yard which flooded up to our door way in every heavy rain and down to our basement due to lack of city surface asphalt drainage  You know the drains that allow water to flow by gravity through proper grading of streets (high-low)into them. I never got any response from the City or the then Mayor and still there are no surface drains. We spent tens of thousands to dig up our foundation and place foundation drains and put in a larger sump pump. It broke my heart as I had to take out early from my IRA but the street water was deadly.

If only Alexandria City council had spent as much on the West End all these decades on the water problems as on the East End build up. [/quote][/quote]

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