The City of Portland has bought 60 homes along Johnson Creek Boulevard and knocked them down.  It’s all part of an effort to stop flooding. On average, the shops and homes along Foster Road in Southeast Portland flood once every couple of years. Residents and businesses owners rebuild, but the water always comes back. Now FEMA -- the Federal Emergency Management Agency -- and the City of Portland have joined forces to take homes off the nearby flood plain, so all that water has somewhere to go…

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