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Preemptive RIP Houston The P stands for Piss, which is going to be in the streets when this storm dumps all the rain
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:yep they have zero zoning, it's a weird point of pride there God drat people in this country hate wetlands lol
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Sep 13, 2021 03:13
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Milo and POTUS posted:God drat people in this country hate wetlands lol When you think about it, humans really are the anti-beaver.
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Sep 13, 2021 03:17
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Sep 13, 2021 03:18
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Zil posted:When you think about it, humans really are the anti-beaver. And Texas politicians are more anti-beaver than your average human.
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Grundulum posted:And Texas politicians are more anti-beaver than your average human. 
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Sep 13, 2021 03:50
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Milo and POTUS posted:God drat people in this country hate wetlands lol If we hated wetlands so much, why would we build artificial ones as a compromise for the ones we pave over. Sure they dry up in under two years but it's really the wildlife's fault for not getting the hint and if we put frogs on welfare when where do we stop?
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groverhaus is the ultimate proof that mankind and wetlands are mortal enemies.
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Milo and POTUS posted:God drat people in this country hate wetlands lol We have an ongoing multi prong approach to get rid of them.
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Grundulum posted:And Texas politicians are more anti-beaver than your average human.
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sexpig by night posted:So sounds like the storm's gonna stay tropical storm levels at least? I know from living in Houston that doesn't mean a ton but it'd be nice to mainly worry about water rather than my piece of poo poo neighborhood having poo poo flying through it. rain is arguably a way bigger threat until you get up to pretty intense winds and/or storm surge threats people are always like "lol just rain" but rain straight up kills tons of people and just annihilates infrastructure
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Yea I know rain is a major issue, but I'm used to prepping for rain and all, I can't do much about wind other than hope poo poo doesn't fall down too close to me like the time my neighbor's shitbox shed nearly crashed through my wall.
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Sep 13, 2021 04:57
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so did Houston upgrade that one reservoir that almost flooded half the city the last time a hurricane dumped 50" on them or...
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Spergin Morlock posted:so did Houston upgrade that one reservoir that almost flooded half the city the last time a hurricane dumped 50" on them or... hahahahaha you stupid piece of poo poo, you fool, you buffoon.
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Spergin Morlock posted:so did Houston upgrade that one reservoir that almost flooded half the city the last time a hurricane dumped 50" on them or... The existence of this site makes me think not https://www.houstontx.gov/postharvey/
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sexpig by night posted:hahahahaha you stupid piece of poo poo, you fool, you buffoon. we just never fix anything do we (the US)
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Sep 13, 2021 05:24
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sexpig by night posted:hahahahaha you stupid piece of poo poo, you fool, you buffoon. just read about it again. the dummies built 14000 houses INSIDE the reservoirs area, lol. it's usually dry there but when it rains enough the area floods by design so downtown doesn't. people bought them without receiving any kind of disclosures. lmao
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Shifty Nipples posted:we just never fix anything do we (the US) it's because no one clapped
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that chopper dude from full metal jacket parked over Houston but the gun shoots rain and if you run your flooded and if you stand still you're a well disciplined and flooded
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Milo and POTUS posted:God drat people in this country hate wetlands lol https://www.phoenix.gov/waterservices/tresrios 
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Spergin Morlock posted:just read about it again. the dummies built 14000 houses INSIDE the reservoirs area, lol. it's usually dry there but when it rains enough the area floods by design so downtown doesn't. people bought them without receiving any kind of disclosures. lmao I'm gonna miss this idiot city so much, we fuckin love doing things wrong here. Just a massive city run by Amelia Badelia at every level.
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Shifty Nipples posted:we just never fix anything do we (the US) Socialism is going to triumph over this country by not really doing anything
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Spergin Morlock posted:just read about it again. the dummies built 14000 houses INSIDE the reservoirs area, lol. it's usually dry there but when it rains enough the area floods by design so downtown doesn't. people bought them without receiving any kind of disclosures. lmao “Honey, why is our house on the river side of the dam?”
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Spergin Morlock posted:just read about it again. the dummies built 14000 houses INSIDE the reservoirs area, lol. it's usually dry there but when it rains enough the area floods by design so downtown doesn't. people bought them without receiving any kind of disclosures. lmao Ok I've been in Texas for a long time now and the stupidity mostly doesn't take me by surprise anymore but this one got me.
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lol it isn't stupidity it is greed and corruption. the real estate developers who make planned developments are some of the biggest pieces of poo poo on the planet. they would build orphanages in dry riverbeds if you let them.
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Shifty Pony posted:lol it isn't stupidity it is greed and corruption. It's so hilariously easy to get completely hosed on home purchases, which is why it's funny that waiving inspections and contingencies is just A Thing now.
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Shifty Pony posted:lol it isn't stupidity it is greed and corruption. Just reading about this here:https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/harvey-reservoirs lol the title is "Everyone Knew Houston’s Reservoirs Would Flood — Except for the People Who Bought Homes Inside Them" Goddamm Texas. lol. What a hosed up situation.
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Sep 13, 2021 16:55
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what the gently caress is a flood czar
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❌ build houses around retention basin ✅ build houses in retention basin
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hot new Nicholas-related Tropical Tidbits dropped https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP78cb3WA_w
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Platystemon posted:“Honey, why is our house on the river side of the dam?” at least they picked some good prescient names for the neighborhoods in question
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I’m sympathetic to some of the residents who were on the back end of the lakes. I just don’t understand how you can drive over a dam to get to your house, see multiple watercourses on the same side as your house, and not get suspicious.   As a reservoir with houses inside of it, it’s kind of unusual[citation neeeded], but that arrangement still looks an awful lot like being on the wrong side of a levee. Some people are just idiots, but I don’t believe that everyone here believed that their home “was not in a floodplain” and “could not flood”. Many knew it could happen, they just didn’t believe it would happen to them, or they believed that if it did happen, they were the right sort of people to get bailed out by their friends in government.
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quote:Hebert said he’s not sure what can be done to restrict further development in Barker. Because Fort Bend County doesn’t have zoning power, it could try to buy out homes in the reservoir, but that would cost hundreds of millions of dollars; the average value of the 3,000 homes that flooded is $360,000, Hebert said.
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Platystemon posted:I’m sympathetic to some of the residents who were on the back end of the lakes. It's not that they didn't think they were in a flood plain, it's that the developers built these homes in an area the government still marked as part of the reservoir. It is also 100% on the government for selling off this land that is 100% part of the reservoir. It's a massive failure
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Zil posted:When you think about it, humans really are the anti-beaver. So by this metric post10 is the ideal human? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haVKBdAMJO4
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How the gently caress did they get insurance?
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George H.W. oval office posted:It's not that they didn't think they were in a flood plain, it's that the developers built these homes in an area the government still marked as part of the reservoir. It is also 100% on the government for selling off this land that is 100% part of the reservoir. It's a massive failure ahem, counterpoint: that propublica article posted:Ed Taravella, a longtime Houston developer, said he hasn’t seen any credible studies showing that development has sent more runoff into the reservoirs. “Things people say are largely anecdotal,” he said. the concept of infiltration and permeability does not exist in Texas. C'mon, Jack.
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George H.W. oval office posted:It's not that they didn't think they were in a flood plain, it's that the developers built these homes in an area the government still marked as part of the reservoir. It is also 100% on the government for selling off this land that is 100% part of the reservoir. It's a massive failure The government never owned most of the land. The Feds failed to buy it in the 1940s when it was agricultural land and worth mere dollars per acre. Decades later, the city and county allowed the private property to be subdivided and developed as residential land. It’s sort of like the Love Canal in that there are several parties who could have stopped or minimized the damage, but  .
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Is Galveston still as much of a miserable hellscape as it was 30 years ago? Our boy Reed is back online for Nicholas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFf3FdHmrH4
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