Bill Edwards was living "high and dry" in Jefferson City in 1993, so that year's record-setting Missouri River floods mostly created travel problems for him.
But he moved into his new home on Marina Road - on the Osage River, just north of the U.S. 50/63 Expressway - just two months ago, "to get down there on the river where you can have a good time," he told a reporter. "So I'm completely ignorant as far as what I should be doing or looking at" when it comes to preparing for a possible flood.
Edwards attended Thursday's Jefferson City government public meeting on the potential for flooding this summer "to just pick up any kind of information about what I should look for and prepare for, and stuff like that."
Mark Goodson's Jefferson City home also is out of the flood plain.
But he works at a transportation company on Old Highway 63, just west of the Jefferson City limits, on the Callaway County side of the river.