Floodwater for hire!
August 13, 2003 1:28 PM   Subscribe

Got floodwater? Dateline: Pasco County, Florida. Some inventive friends of mine are trying everything they can to dry out their property, up to and including listing the water on eBay. Not much of a novelty now, I know, but what else can you do when the county won't do anything? Myself, I'm wondering if they shouldn't just save it. No doubt we'll be under drought warnings again next summer.
posted by alas (6 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: kinda boring, and conflict of interesty.



 
sarasota county is going through this too (south of Tampa, on the gulf).. they had damages to a small community just north of here last month that totaled 16 million.. just a couple mill shy of FEMA assistance. they're upset to hell, and after having 4 feet of standing water for 2 days- the county opened up a latch on a floodgate to let off some of their catch (farther upstream, and inland) and it then flooded another 3 feet. the latch then jammed open, allowing the rest of the reservoir to drain downstream.

their greed for rain water is destroying about a few hundred peoples' lives and homes right now.

sucks to be living near sea-level. i'm about 30yards from the gulf as we speak, but all of my machines are on the 2nd floor. :) safe from flood waters, but not safe from Windows worms!
posted by shadow45 at 1:44 PM on August 13, 2003


MeTa
posted by mr_crash_davis at 1:47 PM on August 13, 2003


Here's a novel idea: Don't move to a place where it floods.

Thank you, I'm here all week.
posted by angry modem at 1:48 PM on August 13, 2003


their greed for rain water is destroying about a few hundred peoples' lives and homes right now.

I haven't heard of this and I live in a place where floods are few and far between. Would you care to explain for the rest of us?
posted by Triplanetary at 1:50 PM on August 13, 2003


sucks to be living near sea-level

Hey!
posted by ginz at 1:50 PM on August 13, 2003


Here's a novel idea: Don't move to a place where it floods.
Sorry stuck in my head: That's who bought the swamp land.
posted by thomcatspike at 1:51 PM on August 13, 2003


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