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<br /> <br /> <br />Unlike other areas. where the <br />effectiveness of the buyout could be <br />measured during noods in 1994 and <br />1995, neither Lincoln County nor <br />Wintield suffered much. This time <br />when the nood waters came. the <br />levees IhaIIhe Corps of Engineers had <br />repaired, held and Ihere was little <br />damage to homes in Lincoln County <br />or Wintield.26 <br /> <br />The only exception was in <br />Silex. a small unincorporated town <br />near Wintield that had escaped <br />serious damage in the '93 nood. In <br /> <br />Jopli^ <br /> <br />Page 44 <br /> <br />1994. however, Ihe threat came noI <br />from Ihe Mississippi breaking through <br />levees. but from the Cuivre River, <br />where heavy rains on April 12. 1994. <br />sent a sudden nash nood Ihrough the <br />town causing the evacuation of most <br />Iown residents.2Y In 1995. Silex <br />escaped serious nood damage as did <br />mosI of Lincoln County and <br />Wintield.Jo <br /> <br />Since the tlood of '93. <br />Lincoln County has prospered. The <br />populaIion has grown. and Ihe <br />assessed valuaIion of property has <br /> <br />IlIanson <br /> <br />increased.J] However. people do still <br />live in the tloodplain. A recent <br />investigation by the NaIional Flood <br />Insurance Program, reveals Ihat many <br />who have rebuilt have done so either <br />without securing a valid permiI that <br />requires homes Ihere be elevated one <br />foot above the 100 year nood mark. or <br />have elevated their homes using <br />shoddy and inadequaIe building <br />maIerials and methods. In January. <br />1996. high winds actually twisted one <br />such home off its foundations and <br />broke iI in half.J2 <br /> <br /> <br />Winfield, MO <br />