Yippee! I found your blog!anaseeddoodlesApril 24 2007, 04:55:41 UTC
Ok, let me tackle this email one question at a time....
1) it is easier to reply to blogs if you know about them :) Granted, I was told a number of days ago wasn't I?
2) As to the nephew birthday thing...be honest, you must have been thinking "Darn Ice Cream Cake?! Where are my cupcakes?!" *8)'
3) The whole flood questionnaire. We've been contemplating it this whole weekend! "Bound Brook" Quaint name for a town until you come to discover the origins of its name!
I do feel for those who lost a lot in those floods however, and can't imagine what it must still be like in the southern states first having the wrath of mother nature put upon them, and now that of the slow moving vehicle we call politics.
Did you know that the people who are experts on the whole 100 year flood plain thing (it's late, can't think of their professional titles, sorry) are not responsible any longer for drawing up those lines we so rely on when buying our homes? I believe it now rests in someone else's 'to do' pile, like the zoo keeper at the Borneo Zoo or something? Ok, I exaggerate, but, I did hear that those lines are being skewed due to changes in weather pattern, well, oops, until the next flood.
Re: Yippee! I found your blog!a_nordApril 25 2007, 15:27:45 UTC
Not really the changes in weather patterns (which is what Al Gore would have you believe) but the changes in the geographic topography...urban sprawl is a huge factor. The natural water sheds and runoffs are fill in, paved over, built over, etc... changed in someway 10, 20, 30 miles away and the effects however small it may be snowballs over distance. You are correct...the flood plane(plain)s are constantly changing. and they aren't documented until...You go to sell your home. then somehow you get screwed by that.
here in atlanta it is a very large problem. That and the fact that the sewer system is so dilapidated that it doesn't take the water out of the city it just backs up. Instant flood.
Re: Yippee! I found your blog!anaseeddoodlesApril 28 2007, 00:52:16 UTC
Actually it has everything to do with weather patterns, which are an result of our activity. Our way of living contributes to global warming, which in turn heats the sea levels which in turn leads to more intense, devastating hurricanes. Cause and effect. I am not disagreeing with you, just ammending what has been said. Our lifestyles and too many people cause these effects.
1) it is easier to reply to blogs if you know about them :) Granted, I was told a number of days ago wasn't I?
2) As to the nephew birthday thing...be honest, you must have been thinking "Darn Ice Cream Cake?! Where are my cupcakes?!" *8)'
3) The whole flood questionnaire. We've been contemplating it this whole weekend! "Bound Brook" Quaint name for a town until you come to discover the origins of its name!
I do feel for those who lost a lot in those floods however, and can't imagine what it must still be like in the southern states first having the wrath of mother nature put upon them, and now that of the slow moving vehicle we call politics.
Did you know that the people who are experts on the whole 100 year flood plain thing (it's late, can't think of their professional titles, sorry) are not responsible any longer for drawing up those lines we so rely on when buying our homes? I believe it now rests in someone else's 'to do' pile, like the zoo keeper at the Borneo Zoo or something? Ok, I exaggerate, but, I did hear that those lines are being skewed due to changes in weather pattern, well, oops, until the next flood.
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here in atlanta it is a very large problem. That and the fact that the sewer system is so dilapidated that it doesn't take the water out of the city it just backs up. Instant flood.
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