Why do I do this to myself? I felt kind of shitty eating sugary foods earlier, but they tasted sooo good... And I'm paying for it now - huge headache... It's that type where it only hurts or throbs if I'm moving around alot. Ugh...
Anyway... my geo lab professor took us to Erie, PA today, more specifically Presque Isle. Was a fun trip, but sad to see what the shoreline engineering has done to the place... and we only saw the least damaged places. Travel down the shore a few miles, you'll find concrete with jagged rusty rebar sticking up all over the place with "homemade enhancements" such as refrigerators. The lake has been pulling the shoreline back into itself along with houses for quite some time now. People resort to blocking the waves with appliances or anything they can to prevent more erosion.
These homeowners call their insurance companies - "Hello? Yes, I need to speak with someone about flood damage...". The definition of a flood is that water has breached your foundation. However when the insurance company finds out that the opposite has happened - The foundation fell into the water... The insurance company says "NO. Not paying for that!". So these frustrated homeowners write to the state... asking for money to fix their home and build a wall... The state tells them the same thing - we only deal with state owned land, not privately owned. However, there are quite a few sea walls built around lake Erie protecting homes and many other buildings... These walls need CONSTANT matinence... there's no such thing as "the budget doesn't allow for fixes this year..." - NO SUCH THING. You don't mantain the wall, you lose the entire investment and then some.
All this matinence and prevention costs an arm and a leg. Our tax dollars. We continue to pay for these idiots to buy and build homes directly on or very near the shore... Why? Why keep letting them rebuild and charge US the bill? I see only insanity.
Same thing along the Mississippi River... we know that the river floods every damn year, and REALLY bad about every thirty years... Why does the government fund these MORONS who build their trailers in the FLOOD PLAIN??? Why do WE pay for all this? Why continue to build levees and such that DO NOT WORK? What's so wrong with letting nature take its course? You can't fight mother nature and expect to win, she will KICK YOUR ASS. Hard.
Tomorrow I'll add in a few problems about the Mississippi River that I'll bet you have no idea about, yet these problems will be catastrophic very soon. :(
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