A River Side Home or Disaster?

    Its a beautiful river side home that is in a flood zone.
Yesterday my husband and I took a trip to pick up a motorcycle he was buying from this guy. Its a beautiful home raised up high on stilts. Its on the Suwanee River where they have a little hut built with a shower and toilet inside. As you come to the edge you walk down the steps to the halfway point, about 20 ft,  where there is a platform with a picnic table and chairs. Continue down more stairs to the bottom, another 20ft,  where the small beach area is. And there is a dock that leads out a ways to their boat.
  As I looked around I thought how beautiful and relaxing. I wanted to hang out there and bring my family and just make a summer of it. It was so nice.
   Until the owner told me of the time it flooded. She said it was flooded 3ft into her house. Now lets get this straight. Its approximately 40 to 50ft from the ground down to the river. Her house is on stilts which is about 10 to 12ft above the ground. That's a total of 50 to 60ft that the river rose to flood that area. That's a scary thought to have the chance your house and everything you own be destroyed by the flood.
  Needless to say the place didn't look so beautiful after that. She said that they boated in and out of their house for weeks. Then as the water receded they had to live in a travel trailer for about a month til the house was repaired.
   My thought after that was it would be a great vacation home, just make sure you leave nothing of value around or in the house cause it may not be there when you come back.