Flood Zones in New Bern, NC

[@KailashChandroRoy]

Wow very nice video

[@GiftHorse123]

I won't be staying in New Bern when our lease runs out in March. New Bern is a city of "the haves and the have nots". If you travel outside of the immediate downtown area, you'll see urban blight like you'd see in Baltimore or Philadelphia on a smaller scale. Yea, they have their fancy Redevelopment Commission who can build 3 small houses, still unoccupied, in 2 years. You've got abandoned Sec. 8 housing destroyed in 2018 by Hurricane Florence. That's 6 years ago. There is no sense of urgency in the City. It will take decades to make a dent in the blight. And then, what are they going to do with the overgrown empty lots, the ugly mobile homes and the ramshackle homes owned by slumlords. Too bad I can't post some pictures of what I've seen. New Bern has some of the worst roads I've seen. They have a backlog of $ 7.6 million of roadwork needed and have only allocated $400,000 next year, 2025, to repair roads. Roads designated as Poor/Very Poor represent 12% of the roads, but would absorb nearly 66% of the $ 7.6 million needed. Then, you have the NCDOT that has jurisdiction over major roadways that will take years for them to fund refurbishment. All in all, there's better places to live in eastern NC.