tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post2304810593474240829..comments2024-03-27T01:58:22.445-07:00Comments on The Gazetteer: Crawling Through The Bloggodome...RossKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07677239332112652522noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post-88675593329909995972021-11-30T11:38:12.527-08:002021-11-30T11:38:12.527-08:00From e.a.f.--
Mr. Palmer has written something &q...From e.a.f.--<br /><br />Mr. Palmer has written something "good", well for a change I'll have to read that. None of what has happened with the Coq or the flooding ought to surprise any one, if they had been paying attention to the province around them or the history of this province. Many may want to blame the current government, but lets not forget for a great part of the last century the Socreds ran this province and built those highways and failed to build dykes in the Valley. This province doesn't have a centralized crisis center to deal with issues such as mass flooding and highways flooding. People would like to blame the government for their houses flooding but what did they do when they bought that house. Its true real estate agents won't tell you if you're on a flood plain or if there have been floods in the area, but many of us know you always buy on the high side of the road. You walk the land before you buy it. You check to see what is under the top soil. You make sure your house is higher than the land and you raise the area you are going to build on. The Coq ought not to have been built where it was. Some said so at the time but Mini WAC wanted it and people thought it was a wonderful thing. Yes, it was great for speeding, really speeding and it was fun, but I never considered it a good highway. Most politicians or the general public have not driven around this province or gone off highways. If they had they would have known this would eventually happen. Most people, until the press started referring to it, didn't know about the Flood of '48. Most people didn't know the flooded area had once been a lake. Where water once was, it can and will return. If the government decides to deal with the lack of adequate dykes in the province, if they can't figure it out, they could check with the Netherlands. They have a handle on it and their water engineers work all over the world. Perhaps some of them might want to work here for awhile. The recent rains/floods in Germany and other countries in Europe did not result in any deaths in the Netherlands. Their dykes worked as did the rest of their water systems. What has been the problem in this province is, governments tried to save a few bucks. this will all cost billions and with the fires we had the past few years and COVID, if new infrastructure is needed, you can bet people won't want it if they have to pay higher taxes. You either pay now or you pay later, but you will pay.<br /><br /><br />(sorry eaf, had to remove the stuff about tobacco at the top of your post given the business I'm in)<br /><br /><br />.RossKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07677239332112652522noreply@blogger.com