In my book you are!
unless you prove me wrong.
Educated, yes. Elite, far from it!
that means your family has chosen out of free will to live in a flood zone.
Since 1947, it's an ancestral land, people can't just leave it like that. And if they do leave it, then go where? Not exactly a whole lot of options left. There are ancestral graveyards, lands, homes, businesses, baradari etc...people can't leave them that easily. Especially without government support or incentives.
That was my point. If we know area xyz is getting flooding every rainy season, then it is? what?
Not safe to live in (period).
And my point is that instead of telling half of Punjab to move elsewhere, improve your flood management system and response system, and try to mitigate disaster. You can't completely wipe it, but you can at least be prepared.
However flood zones are incredibly fertile and thus excellent to grow wheat or rice or pretty much every crop,.
So what should be done?
A government baboo to come by and tell you that your house will be flooded this year. Naaaaaah!
you know it already. So as you guys did. Raise your house 3-5 feet.
Why can't it be done? This is the electronic age. Mobile SMS, Radio, TV, anything can be done.
Not everyone is so resourceful to have enough money to raise their homes.
Now to the serious issue of warnings. I believe unless levies (bundh) breaks, flood waters do not rise by 10 feet in 1 hour
Thus giving ample time to move animals, and food up a higher level .
Agree with you on that on the basis of what I have seen
It is time we quit crying about government baboos when we know flash floods are hard to predict,
No one is singling out the baboos, but at least they should play their part and take responsibility.
The correct people who you should be giving this advice to is those who populate the Leh Nullah and embed their foundations right in the water way...
Every other year we get houses taken away or damaged...but people don't learn.
Now that is stupidity.