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Re: When the Levee Breaks
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2017 4:33 pm
by Lumbergh21
rlown wrote:you can build in a flood plain and play the flood insurance game. Right up there with earthquake insurance.. I need some trees falling on my property insurance.
Isn't that covered as an act if God?
Re: When the Levee Breaks
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2017 4:36 pm
by rlown
umbrella policy maybe. I don't believe act of Dog is covered.. we all have our belief system. I had 2 75' oaks come down. One ripped into the top and side of my camper.. Other didn't hit anyone as it came down on the road. This was about 5 years ago. Expensive and not covered..
Flood insurance is mandatory on most flood plains now in CA. As I don't live in one (flood plain), I have other issues like how to deal with runoff.
Re: When the Levee Breaks
Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2017 8:32 pm
by rlown
fun facts about Oroville dam
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Oroville 29 March New DWR Spillway Footage
Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2017 7:22 pm
by rlown
Current Oroville dam update.
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Re: Oroville dam spillway flows again
Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2017 3:50 pm
by rlown
I love bedrock. They should have built on that rather than clay.
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Re: Oroville dam spillway flows again
Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2017 8:31 pm
by Tom_H
rlown wrote:I love bedrock. They should have built on that rather than clay.
You got that right, especially if it's granite. Jobs are too often done the cheapest way possible, regardless of whether a little more money would have enabled a much better build.
Adding fly ash or volcanic ash would lengthen life expectancy of highway concrete from 20 years to 40 years at an increase of 20% of the raw materials cost. But states and the feds don't want to pay for it.
OTOH, the Brooklyn Bridge was built to hold 10 times the weight that was expected ever to sit on it. It is still functioning well in its second century of life.
Remember that saying,
They don't build things the way they used to.