House by house, the flood-prone town of Mosby, Missouri, is shrinking as the government buys up and demolishes properties.
In this photo taken Monday, Nov. 18, 2019, Tammy Kilgore looks over the remains of her home after it was demolished as part of a voluntary buyout in food-prone Mosby, Mo. Kilgore accepted a $45,000 payment to leave her home of 38 years and has moved to a nearby community.
“Every time it would come up, it would probably ruin our floors,” she recalled. “We just got tired of it.” In Iowa, for example, a dozen cities and counties have inquired about the potential of buying out as many as 660 properties. In the future, more buyouts could be necessary nationwide as climate change leads to rising seas and more frequent and intense rainstorms.
“I’ve seen some changes, but they’ve been kind of gradual,” Cazzell said sadly. “This is kind of like a bomb exploding or something — it’s just all at once, and my neighbors are gone.”Her granddaughter a few doors down is staying, but her son and daughter-in-law are leaving. Their white wooden house is marked with a bright orange “D2” — code for “Demolition Phase Two,” the same thing that was painted on Kilgore’s home.
Sullivan was offered $20,000 for the modest home that he said he bought for $17,000 three decades ago. Since then, he put on a new roof and siding and spent $4,000 rebuilding a garage. For 65-year-old Sally Denney, who’s spent her whole life in Mosby, the buyouts have stirred a sense of disbelief, anger, frustration and fear that her beloved town could eventually be gone.
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