It's actually a really good idea, especially on the river. Our condo complex is built with the garages only on the first floor. When the Colorado river flooded in the mid 1980's the water reached a couple inches with in the garages. The joke was that the condos were sinking when the water was just really high. Needles got hit really bad.

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