Re: Fires and Floods

Developers here are always building in filled in wetlands (money can buy lots of favors here), and the idiots who buy the houses are always so shocked when their homes flood. DUH.
zem
----- Original Message ----- From: "Cathy Carpenter" <cathy.c@insightbb.com>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 9:59 AM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Fires and Floods


That's the way I feel about folks who build next to any large river,
or for that matter, the seashore (name your ocean). Can understand
the lure, but why do we keep bailing them out, then subsidize
rebuilding?

Cathy, west central IL, z5b

On Dec 29, 2005, at 10:01 PM, David Franzman wrote:


I live about 10 miles from the Russian River.  It might flood this
weekend sometime but frankly if those folks who live along it don't
have their furniture suspended from the ceiling they are out of
their minds.
David
http://www.atouchofthetropics.net

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