And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
That has always amazed me about being somewhere with marks indicating some historic Flood. To extend that out to the Horizon to where it intersets land, then realize the volume of Water involved.
I wonder if they checked upstream. In Texas, mighty floods have been mostly mitigated by the construction of lakes, by damming up rivers. The water is used by cities a lot, and also for recreation, a lot. They've changed the landscape of Texas and made a lot more viable land.
Spain, on the other hand, has demolished over 200 dams over recent times, for 'ecological' principals as dictated by the EU, which can't stand to see rivers made into lakes. They also apparently forgot to think a little bit about flood control. Take a look at the news over the past 2 months. Thanks, Green New Deal !
The tradeoff between ready access to water and chance of getting washed away by building in a flood plain.
ReplyDeleteThey're up on a terrace, look like - a lot of territory has to fill with water before it reaches their door.
ReplyDeleteThat has always amazed me about being somewhere with marks indicating some historic Flood. To extend that out to the Horizon to where it intersets land, then realize the volume of Water involved.
DeleteI wonder if they checked upstream. In Texas, mighty floods have been mostly mitigated by the construction of lakes, by damming up rivers. The water is used by cities a lot, and also for recreation, a lot. They've changed the landscape of Texas and made a lot more viable land.
DeleteSpain, on the other hand, has demolished over 200 dams over recent times, for 'ecological' principals as dictated by the EU, which can't stand to see rivers made into lakes. They also apparently forgot to think a little bit about flood control. Take a look at the news over the past 2 months. Thanks, Green New Deal !
A barndominium.
ReplyDeleteI have little hope to ever see people NOT build homes on river bottom land.
ReplyDeleteWasn't it the Bible that warned mankind to build on rock and not on sand?
As Aggie stated, they're on terraced land, not river bottom. Any good photo interpreter can see that.
DeleteWhere did all that nice soil come from to plant in? Up stream would be my guess.
DeleteCheck out the Channeled Scablands in Central Washington State. The flook at the end of the ice age.
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