Text 25403, 75 rader
Skriven 2006-11-22 10:50:20 av Mimi Gallandt (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 25388 av Ed Hulett (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: Election
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Ed Hulett -> Mimi Gallandt wrote:
 EH> Mimi Gallandt -> Ed Hulett wrote:

 MG>>>> I'm very happy to hear you didn't get flooded. :)

 EH>>> Thanks. The main reason I didn't get flooded is that I bought a house
 EH>>> well away from any flood plane. On the news, most of the damage
 EH> was to
 EH>>> houses built right on the banks of rivers. One of the shots they
 MG>> showed
 EH>>> repeatedly was of a house some guy had just finished building. It
 MG>> was a
 EH>>> very large house -- about 4000+ sq. ft. -- and he had built it only a
 EH>>> few feet from the bank of a river. The name of the river is "Raging
 MG>> River."

 EH>>> You'd think that with a name like that the guy would have built the
 EH>>> house a few hundred yards farther away from the bank.

 EH>>> Ed

 MG>> One would think that someone who has enough money to build a very
 EH> large
 MG>> house would be bright enough not to build in a flood plane,

 EH> Not just on a flood plane, but right on the bank of a wild river that
 EH> floods every year.

 EH> They had to knock a wall out of the house to retrieve their two
 EH> expensive yuppy cars.

 MG>> but you'd think that someone with enough money to build (or buy) a
 EH> house on the
 MG>> cliffs over Malibu would be smart enough not to. Nearly every year for
 MG>> about a decade the rains would wash away a little more of the
 EH> cliffs and
 MG>> those houses would slide down or there was a drought and the houses

 EH> At least they don't let the idiots build their houses out over the cliff
 EH> anymore. Now *THAT* was a downright stupid way to build a house.

 MG>> burned down, but they keep building back there anyway. In an effort to
 MG>> attempt to bring this conversation somewhat closer to being on topic;
 MG>> shouldn't there be laws about not being allowed to build houses in
 MG>> unsafe areas like on crumbling cliffs and in flood planes?

 EH> You'd think so, but apparently they think it's ok for the taxpayers to
 EH> bail these lunatics out when their dream home ends up a pile of useless
 EH> scrap wood.

The houses in Malibu that I was talking about sliding off or burning up always
whacked traffic on PCH even worse than normal so then you had city employees
(Malibu is part of the city of Los Angeles) working on the road, cops directing
traffic and fire and rescue workers trying to pull these morons out of their
devastated homes. Property tax in Malibu should be higher than in any other
part of the city. El Pueblo de Los Angeles is a living monument to how *NOT* to
build a city. Before the Jewish filmmakers from back east came LA was a tiny
little cow town, whose only claim to fame was the ability to grow damned near
anything. IIRC Charleston (S. Carolina?) was the first "planned community" in
the country and cities would be much better off emulating Charleston instead of
LA or NYC (another nightmare of development).


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Mimi

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