Why build in flood areas?

You might still be marooned but at least you would have all your electric appliances and expensive furniture untouched.

What is a kitchen and drawing room doing on the same level as the swamp? Maybe some people like the headache of having to purchase new electrical appliances and furniture every rainy season.

If you have to use the ground floor of your property, how about only plastic furniture and any other household equipment lightweight enough to be carried upstairs? A small fridge and a microwave oven, a two-burner stove, a couple hammocks could be at ground level.

Fix up downstairs with some small plants and lightweight decorations.

Make it look nice. People could still come by the house to lime. I have no suggestions for parking cars and trucks or about the planting of the swamp land.

That is beyond my imagination. I from down in town.

LYNETTE JOSEPH Diego Martin