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Re:new 10,000 Posting Club!
« Reply #210 on: October 15, 2006, 10:40:04 AM »

I lived in Las Vegas 3 years.  I just wanted to come back.

As for the flooding, the river flows north.  It thaws from source to mouth, so there's ice jams that causes the water to back up.  It's also really flat so the water spreads out a lot once it overflows the banks.
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Re:new 10,000 Posting Club!
« Reply #211 on: October 20, 2006, 12:44:15 PM »

Well, yeah that would do it. Why not build on stilts??

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Re:new 10,000 Posting Club!
« Reply #212 on: October 20, 2006, 06:09:59 PM »

Most people live out of the flood plain.  That year was bad because of the record snowfall with the ground already saturated from the previous fall so there was a lot of overland flooding in addition to the yearly river rise.  There was also an ice storm that spring that hindered sandbagging efforts.
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Re:new 10,000 Posting Club!
« Reply #213 on: October 22, 2006, 10:15:52 AM »

Hmmm, lets build a house and spend our savings to make it nice.  Why here's a good spot, THE FLOOD PLAIN. Nothing bad could ever happen here.
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Re:new 10,000 Posting Club!
« Reply #214 on: October 22, 2006, 11:25:23 AM »

Yes, as I sometimes say to my group when I'm GMing:

"That's a great plan. I see no possible way it could go wrong!"

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Re:new 10,000 Posting Club!
« Reply #215 on: October 22, 2006, 03:48:55 PM »

Well, there's a few reasons people came here:

1) good farmland
2) the river (Transportation way back)
3) a couple railroad lines intersect
4) (More recently) two interstates.

Now, if you want a bad location, try Devil's Lake, ND.  The level's been rising past several years and parts of the town are now underwater.
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Re:new 10,000 Posting Club!
« Reply #216 on: October 22, 2006, 06:31:42 PM »

Still think you need to invest in some stilts.  ;)

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Re:new 10,000 Posting Club!
« Reply #217 on: October 23, 2006, 11:23:11 PM »

why?  My house never flooded.  We just watched the river (lake) in the backyard.

The hill's great for sledding in the winter ;)
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Re:new 10,000 Posting Club!
« Reply #218 on: October 24, 2006, 02:42:13 AM »

no you build a water tight bunker styled home that when there is flooding you can button the house up tight like a sub
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Re:new 10,000 Posting Club!
« Reply #219 on: October 24, 2006, 05:13:03 AM »

Boy now doesn't THAT sound like something a redneck miltiaman would say? "I got this school bus burried in the backyard. You know, in case of comunists or natural disaster." ;)

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Re:new 10,000 Posting Club!
« Reply #220 on: October 24, 2006, 05:30:21 AM »

lol my dream house will cost a fortune consdering it would be flood proof tornado proof quake proof back up power supply reseve water supply emargy life support
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Re:new 10,000 Posting Club!
« Reply #221 on: October 24, 2006, 06:58:16 AM »

Ever thought about buying a missile silo??? The US government has actually been selling off old Cold War era silos in the Midwest. You can buy one and move in. They even have a bunch of military surplus in them, although nothing kethal or secret.

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Re:new 10,000 Posting Club!
« Reply #222 on: October 24, 2006, 07:01:44 AM »

Yeah, they keep the kethal stuff for themselves.

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Re:new 10,000 Posting Club!
« Reply #223 on: October 24, 2006, 07:09:05 AM »

Kethal???? That must REALLY be some top secret drek.


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Re:new 10,000 Posting Club!
« Reply #224 on: October 24, 2006, 07:09:58 AM »

thought about it lol
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