In the 1910s and 1920s, a lake near the city my Dad is from was drained for farmland. It was still kinda marshy and would flood whenever there was too much rain, but that didn't matter because nobody was stupid enough to build buildings on the lakebed. The farmers lived on the higher ground that had been the lake shore, mostly along a road called "Lake L Road" because it was the road that went around the lake. The lake-bottom turned farmland was still called Lake L. (My Dad grew up on a farm a couple of miles away from Lake L.)
In the time since, the city has grown up to the edges of Lake L. It is still called Lake L.. Somewhere around the year 2000, some damnfool developer decided to put up houses on the lake bottom. The city allowed it because somehow (despite literally every local telling them it flooded on the regular) they thought it never flooded. Well, it had been a dry couple of decades, so it hadn't flooded in the time that any of the people working at city hall had been around.
You will never guess what happened, a few years after those houses were built and inhabited.
We had a wet year, and the lake bottom flooded. Shocking, I know.
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In the time since, the city has grown up to the edges of Lake L. It is still called Lake L.. Somewhere around the year 2000, some damnfool developer decided to put up houses on the lake bottom. The city allowed it because somehow (despite literally every local telling them it flooded on the regular) they thought it never flooded. Well, it had been a dry couple of decades, so it hadn't flooded in the time that any of the people working at city hall had been around.
You will never guess what happened, a few years after those houses were built and inhabited.
We had a wet year, and the lake bottom flooded. Shocking, I know.