2008 21:47:16 -0500From: pitbouncer@gmail.comTo:
wavycaver@gmail.comCC: ot@texascavers.comSubject: Re: [ot_caving] Re: KLRU
Program on Flooding
HA! 100 years flood plains scare you? developers here in Mexico are so greedy
that they build on recurrent flood plains, (read every couple years
See:
www.floodsafety.org
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 8:53 PM, Don Cooper wavyca...@gmail.com wrote:
I wish everyone could be watching this!
I have never realized what a tremendous amount of waste that corporate
america (money vested developers) has spent and then gained anew through
deception
HA!
100 years flood plains scare you? developers here in Mexico are so greedy
that they build on recurrent flood plains, (read every couple years)
they build houses by the thousands and the average life expectancy of said
houses is less than 4 years cause they're built so cheaply.
how do they get
YUP!
Except here in the good ole USA - its not called bribing it's called
politics.
There are so many cozy (and oh so legitimate) relationships between
developers and law makers and governors - past and present. (Williams, Bush,
Perry - and NO I don't consider 'Richards' to have been one of THEM)
Don there is a bit of a popular misunderstanding of what a 100 year
flood is. The 100-year flood is more accurately referred to as the 1%
flood, since it is a flood that has a 1% chance of being equaled or
exceeded in any single year. Based on the expected flood water level, a
predicted area
