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I've had family that lived in Houston (in the past, not currently) who've joked, "Yeah, there's no real city planning here*, they just kept plopping down new construction, willy-nilly, wherever they felt like it."
In the past, we've understood that to mean when it rains heavily, just a normal heavy rain, the streets will flood, in many places high enough that people think they can drive through it, but they can't, and get washed out, car totaled, and have to be rescued. That's a common thing we just live with.
When more, and worse storms keep hitting, it becomes more than an inconvenience.
We've had multiple "hundred year storms" in the last few years, and now this "500" or even "1,000 year" storm, is being treated like an unprecedented anomaly. It's most likely not. Keep your eyes on the skies. And the thermometers. Every year for many years running has been the "hottest year on record" and there have been no breaks in this pattern.
Don't trust the scientists? Stick your head out the window (and pull it out of the sand).
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* In other words, a market-based, regulation-free Libertarian utopia.
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There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there
it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your
expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever
gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track.
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Last edited by Flint; 08-30-2017 at 03:59 PM.
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