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shocked, I tell you

yeah.  me too.

wasn't any surprise if you were watching any of it being built.  badly cured (or nearly green) lumber, shoddy methods, poor finish.  amazing that any of it passed inspection -- and [here I get really ticked off] during those same years it was impossible to get a permit to build a solid little strawbale cabin, or put up a yurt, anywhere in the county I lived in.

The difference between theory and practise in practise ...

by DeAnander (de_at_daclarke_dot_org) on Sat Apr 5th, 2008 at 11:19:51 PM EST
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Mother Nature had her revenge in Florida.  It was a riot watching all of the new developments go up, pushing the suburbs from the coast in Palm Beach County all the way out near the Everglades.  Awful construction, and natives all knew.  "Just wait for the first hurricane to come through.  They won't know what hit'em."  Sure enough, hurricanes went through and the new construction suffered the damage.  The only problem is that it pushes everyone else's insurance premiums through the roof.

The stuff they build in the Mid-Atlantic is even worse.  They might not be as pretty, but I'll stick to the old brick buildings.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Sun Apr 6th, 2008 at 12:02:13 AM EST
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