Correction: Law firms Reprints Related items Flooding: Waterfront propertyJul 5th 2007 Housing market: Watch out for the cracksMay 3rd 2007 Homebuilding: Builders on the blockMar 29th 2007The puzzle, though, is why the supply of houses has not increased to meet demand, especially given the price houses now command.
It would make nearly half a million New Yorkers vulnerable to flooding, and waterfront properties would be virtually uninhabitable.
At the end of October "Superstorm Sandy" flooded the waterfront Fairway supermarket with a five-foot high tidal surge and forced owners to gut the property and rebuild from scratch.
The heavy rainfall caused streams to greatly exceed their respective flood stages, damaging waterfront property.
As we pulled away from the steps, the rising sun flooded the curving waterfront of ghats, temples, and palaces.
High tides flooded the Havana waterfront up to 3 feet deep, and several boats sank at the city's harbor.
One of the winning plans for New York City was known as the BIG U: a 10-mile stretch around lower Manhattan that blended flood defences with a waterfront public park.
Home now to galleries, upscale grocery stores, and Jane's Carousel (which was eerily flooded Monday night), the waterfront stretch is a far cry from the desolate, seedy bit of no-man's-land it was in the nineteen-eighties, when I was growing up.
Though located south of where the storm made landfall, buildings and roads along the Tampa Bay Area waterfront were flooded by the waves.
The Mississippi is expected to stay at a record high level for days if not weeks, cutting off roads, submerging some waterfront properties and flooding hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland.
