Comments on: Galveston Bids for Darwin Award http://greengabbro.net/2007/07/26/galveston-bids-for-darwin-award/ rock out to the apparatus Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:36:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Sabine http://greengabbro.net/2007/07/26/galveston-bids-for-darwin-award/#comment-17235 Sabine Mon, 06 Aug 2007 18:43:58 +0000 http://greengabbro.net/2007/07/26/galveston-bids-for-darwin-award/#comment-17235 The same kind of stupidity is happening here on Mustang Island with the recent opening of Packery Channel. Not that I am Christian or anything, but even the bible says not to build your house on sand. :) (My home is on sand, but at least I'm behind the barrier island and at a high enough elevation to only get flooded out by a cat 3+) The same kind of stupidity is happening here on Mustang Island with the recent opening of Packery Channel.

Not that I am Christian or anything, but even the bible says not to build your house on sand. :) (My home is on sand, but at least I’m behind the barrier island and at a high enough elevation to only get flooded out by a cat 3+)

]]> By: yami http://greengabbro.net/2007/07/26/galveston-bids-for-darwin-award/#comment-16700 yami Fri, 27 Jul 2007 07:21:29 +0000 http://greengabbro.net/2007/07/26/galveston-bids-for-darwin-award/#comment-16700 Of course not! Why, that would just be letting the floods win. My hometown put a bunch of new stuff on the flood plain right after an exceptionally wet year. <i>"500 year flood means it won't be this bad for another 495 years, right?"</i> Of course not! Why, that would just be letting the floods win.

My hometown put a bunch of new stuff on the flood plain right after an exceptionally wet year. “500 year flood means it won’t be this bad for another 495 years, right?”

]]> By: gengar http://greengabbro.net/2007/07/26/galveston-bids-for-darwin-award/#comment-16698 gengar Fri, 27 Jul 2007 06:46:12 +0000 http://greengabbro.net/2007/07/26/galveston-bids-for-darwin-award/#comment-16698 Hah. Of course, everyone on my fair isle is currently learning the hard way that flood plains were not named whimsically. Not that it's going to stop them building all over them in the future, it seems.... Hah. Of course, everyone on my fair isle is currently learning the hard way that flood plains were not named whimsically. Not that it’s going to stop them building all over them in the future, it seems….

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