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I attended a talk by a planner in my city and they explained that the big “useless” lawn area near the downtown is pretty much the only thing stopping the downtown from flooding when it rains, so yeah i don’t mind it as much anymore.

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38 points

Well now you have wet houses

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And technically the lands are still wet, so it’s better?

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😁

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It’s free real estate pool!

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There’s a kind of interesting video somewhat related to this by Vox that goes over how the rerouting of rivers in Pakistan has led to flooding. Here is the video if you have ten minutes you want to kill.

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Meh, just build levees and make it the next towns problem

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Also applies to floodplains.

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the hint is in the name!

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