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Insurance companies will have to pay out

Discussion in 'Pull up a chair and sit for a spell' started by cardboard, Jan 9, 2012.

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  1. cardboard

    cardboard Well-Known Member

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    You've probably heard me talk about builders building homes on concrete slabs
    Well it rained all last nite and today
    Everything is under water, homes cars and all
    Insurance companies will pay many millions of dollars from this
    A lot could have been spared if they built pier & beam goundations and put them up off the ground

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    Our 2 story house is build on a slab, we have no problem. The problem arises when you don't provide adequate drainage.
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    cardboard Well-Known Member

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    Only got one question for you
    Do you know anything about houston
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    FLHTbiker Moderator Staff Member

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    Do you know about the Pacific Northwest and all the rain we get from fall to the end of June, Houston don't hold a candle to our rain. We just know how to manage it better with better run offs. Yea gotta have a place for the water to go.
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    cardboard Well-Known Member

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    Houston is build on the pararie
    Houston is flat and 50' above sea level
    The ditches and boyous fill up and there is no place for it to go
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    FLHTbiker Moderator Staff Member

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    Dig a channel to the ocean or the closest river:rolleyes:
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    cardboard Well-Known Member

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    When it fills up what then
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    Swim:roflmao::roflmao:
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    FLHTbiker Moderator Staff Member

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    What the ocean gonna fill up.:rolleyes: Drill holes all through the desert so the water can drain :roflmao:
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    cardboard Well-Known Member

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    Lotta people who fall in those fast flowing bayous try but the just about always drown
    Takes time to find them too
    The flowing water is strong
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    cardboard Well-Known Member

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    Long way to the desert from Houston redneck
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    JOBs creation :D
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    cardboard Well-Known Member

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    Ya want to dig a hole 500 miles
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    guess ya'll need stilts. or better yet, build on the high (or highest available)
    ground (as long as you are higher than the cars) . how do these places perc test for septic ? maybe that area is not
    meant for home construction. blame the engineer.
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    Not a hole :rolleyes: a ditch and line it. Just think of the Jobs, hey maybe a part time job for you so you can work in the off season so you can pay off the bike.:DI
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    cardboard Well-Known Member

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    You got to go uphill to get there
    We got oil jobs and a lot more here
    Folks are comin here to work
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    Tunnels :D or better yet, spread the wealth by spreading it all over the state.
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    cardboard Well-Known Member

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    Water goes to the Gulf to help the fishing industry
    The gulf needs the water after over a 25" ridin deficit
    Last year
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    That's why you need a long ditch and a tunnel or two :)
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    What would you call a ditch about 150' w and about 40' deep
    A Bayou
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