August 08, 2008
— Open Blog Few topics bore me more than water management issues. Its the kind of thing discussed on local government access cable channels and you flip through on your way to the pay-per-view porn or the Home Shopping Channel (Dave in Texas tells me thats where he always buys his Hummel figurines, and who am I to disagree? Whatever else you may say about him, the man knows value when he sees it).
But thats not important at the moment. Yesterday in the sunny and arid state of Washington a ruling was handed down by something called the Pollution Control Hearings Board which may alter the way all future buildings are constructed. Read the whole article here.
The way homes, shopping centers and other developments are built around Puget Sound could dramatically change to help reduce damage from polluted stormwater, under a new ruling that rejects existing state stormwater rules.
The state Pollution Control Hearings Board, which acts as a court to review challenges to state environmental regulations, said today the state Department of Ecology had not gone far enough in mandating new techniques to control stormwater.
Ok so far, though the Department of Ecology is a fairly radical agency, so it really takes an effort to up the ante and out-radical them. Can it be done?
The hearings board ordered Ecology to require the biggest cities and counties in Western Washington, including Seattle, Tacoma, and King, Pierce and Snohomish counties, to mandate much wider use of methods that get rainwater to soak into the ground.
Because otherwise it floats up into outer space rather than into the extensive drainage system where its captured and reused.
Environmentalists argued the new methods, which include narrower streets, gardens designed to soak up rain, and homes built on columns that leave topsoil undisturbed, are well-tested and usually reduce environmental damage.
Let that sink in for a bit. Homes built on columns. That leave topsoil undisturbed.
I suppose its possible. Ive heard (and this is hush hush so dont tell anyone) from industry insiders that theyve developed a magic bean (as they call it) which, when planted, eventually grows into a structural column, so no heavy equipment is needed which might disturb the topsoil. Other research teams are working feverishly on a system to prefabricate the housing and bring it in by helicopter. Theyve almost got it solved but are in a quandary regarding lifting a whole shopping center, apartment complex or office building into place.
(PS: I encourage anyone who comments on this post to use at least one fucking profane word. Is that too much to ask? Dont you know were at war? Comments not including profanity may be edited to include them)
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Posted by: George Orwell at August 08, 2008 09:07 PM (rf5CF)
Posted by: George Orwell at August 08, 2008 09:07 PM (rf5CF)
Posted by: John Galt at August 08, 2008 09:25 PM (Ylv1H)
Posted by: nk at August 08, 2008 09:26 PM (cpCPS)
Posted by: Miss Oganist at August 08, 2008 09:27 PM (rdM33)
Posted by: mare at August 08, 2008 09:49 PM (xMkst)
Defeating the purpose one GFI at a time.
Posted by: Anoni Moose at August 08, 2008 09:57 PM (062K9)
As for the columns, only when I get a hovercraft.
Posted by: Benson at August 08, 2008 10:08 PM (qzcNU)
Fucking Washington! I am getting so sick of this state, I've gotta move somewhere else, like Alabama. Alabama, just as beautiful, a little hotter, a little drier, but at least you can buy AND shoot off fireworks 365 days a year. Can't even light fireworks on the 4th in a lot of places in WA.
Of course, the people who live upriver on the Skagit could benefit from building their houses on concrete pillars and avoid getting flooded every year. No offense Lyman, Hamilton, Cape Horn, etc., but aren't you guys getting a little tired of having to hose out and rebuild your homes every year? I know, about half of you are already 10 feet or more off the ground, but you live in a flood area, can you imagine the whole of western WA building like that?
Hmm, I see there is still land on Sand Mountain in Alabama for $1000.00 an acre...
Posted by: Big Mo at August 08, 2008 10:15 PM (pUSjl)
Jane or Judy?
Posted by: Miss Oganist at August 09, 2008 02:27 AM (rdM33)
Fuck'em BOTH!
Posted by: Rosie the Robot at August 08, 2008 11:25 PM (8yPsP)
Posted by: Tom W. at August 08, 2008 11:36 PM (pXS7q)
Theses cocksuckers and their phallic obsessions...
Now they want their entire houses mounted on cocks.
Wierd motherfuckers...
Posted by: ether at August 09, 2008 01:02 AM (IqYKR)
Posted by: George Orwell at August 09, 2008 01:05 AM (rf5CF)
Posted by: Fa Cube Itches at August 09, 2008 01:24 AM (25unC)
And yeah, where the fuck is my flying car, you assholes?
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Posted by: krakatoa at August 09, 2008 02:02 AM (rZa+A)
Posted by: joe at August 09, 2008 02:03 AM (ksSHv)
Oh, almost forgot my token profanity. Borrowing from "ether" - those "cocksuckers and their phallic obsessions" really piss me the hell off!
Posted by: Abdul at August 09, 2008 02:11 AM (nFgIB)
Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with those weirdo douchebags?
Oh!
They're democrats.
Nevermind.
Posted by: Nom de Blog at August 09, 2008 02:59 AM (e321h)
One good Mitt post and it's on!
Oh and I say let those fucked up moonbats build everything on columns. Like nk said, it will one huge netherworld of nasty, slimy fungal hell. At least "grunge" will finally have a real meaning.
Posted by: Alamo at August 09, 2008 03:02 AM (MmTo7)
Posted by: Cuffy Meigs at August 09, 2008 03:27 AM (uOvAE)
just saying that to represent the mindsets of the leftard fuckwits who sit on that useless public dole post of a "Pollution Control Hearings Board". Which, BTW Ace, sounds like a more obscene term to true Conservatives than any chain of 4-letter words. (I bet we can all make Board sound like a dirty word, right?
) So much for getting any new development done in Washington, since no one other than Bill gates will be able to afford a house once 6-8 load-bearing concrete pylons are sunk into the ground first to support it. (I wonder if the leftards on that Board have realized the amount of non-absorbing concrete pouring that will have to occur to properly realize their little fantasy. No, of course they don't, the lot of them lnows less about the environment than I do. They are just little Marxists getting off on their Board by telling the rest of us productive humans how to live our lives. My best friend & one of my cousins moved to the Seattle area at the beginning of this decade. (They both live in Tacoma, not that it matters.) Beautiful area, I was envious at the time. But I wonder these days if it was worth it after all. My other cousin who moved to the Dallas area seems to have done better, and live in a more accomodating state, anyway. (At least there is no one in Texas who can make a Texan family build their dream home on stilts.)
Posted by: exdem13 at August 09, 2008 03:47 AM (fenBi)
(was that enough swearing?)
Posted by: leoncaruthers at August 09, 2008 03:56 AM (JSO4h)
Posted by: lonetown at August 09, 2008 04:01 AM (f/ha4)
I'd like to see them try it in the midest. You know what we'd call houses like that during tornado season? Airborn. Fucking morons.
Posted by: Nugai at August 09, 2008 04:07 AM (dPGsN)
This is actually a great idea. Let some politician build this new elevated home, and it will provide housing for his/her or his/his family (see I snuck a fucking gay marriage reference in there?), as well as provide a place for a homeless person to live / and or shit. The politician won't be able to do a thing about it except whine, as they never have the stones to do anything to address the homeless problem.
Posted by: Mephitis at August 09, 2008 04:08 AM (8vJF0)
Eet thyne own toordis.
Oh, is this a Doctor Who thread?
It's not? Well, fuck y'all then.
Houses on stilts in earthquake country? Pass.
Posted by: MamaAJ at August 09, 2008 04:24 AM (X6Zdh)
Come on down! Most of the states in the South / South-east have reasonable land prices and are much more in tuned to our Constitutionally guaranteed property rights. Make that a higher regard for the Constitution in general.
Most of all, when the shit hits the socialist fan, you don't want to be where the moonbats are in complete (but quickly losing) control. With a little property, sufficient means to protect ones family and self, and a more self- sufficient citizenry, we will survive the anarchy without too much trouble.
Posted by: Alamo at August 09, 2008 04:32 AM (MmTo7)
Guess what? The rain still does not go under the house, it might have something to do with the, what do you call it? ROOF!
Oh yea I forgot, if your house is up on stilts, you usually park your car under the house. So there is always that big impervious chunk of concrete. WTF
Unless they make you put your garage on stilts too!
Oh sorry, Shit! Damn! Hell!
Posted by: Vmaximus at August 09, 2008 04:37 AM (U60JU)
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Posted by: Tim at August 09, 2008 05:14 AM (AdvE1)
Fuckin' A, Bubba!
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Posted by: stace at August 09, 2008 05:43 AM (JO0c/)
Whew, that felt good.. ( sorry about the thread-jack, didn't think Bernie deserved it)
The real Catman
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Posted by: Stinky Esposito at August 09, 2008 06:23 AM (MMC8r)
...way ahead of the curve on this one.
Just saying.
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Posted by: Stinky Esposito at August 09, 2008 06:35 AM (MMC8r)
Posted by: Michelle Fucking Obama at August 09, 2008 06:42 AM (rf5CF)
The Puget Sound area has been having trouble with floods for a decade now. Drainage systems aren't the solution because it's their rivers that are flooding due to massive runoff from developed areas.
They've done stuff like this before, too. Back in the old times, Seattle was in a similar situation as New Orleans today. After a big fire knocked out most of downtown, they passed an ordinance that all buildings had to have 2nd story entrances. Over time they filled in the streets, and all the area that used to be ground level is now known as Seattle Underground.
Posted by: Felix at August 09, 2008 07:01 AM (QmFnA)
Posted by: mwl at August 09, 2008 07:01 AM (aKHC8)
Not only does this shit get rid of basements, it creates a fuckton of heating issues in winter. Nothing like having a mat of freeze your damn nuts off cold completely surrounding every sonofabitch's house in the fucking winter to liven things up a bit.
Stupid Washington cocksuckers.
Posted by: Ranba Ral at August 09, 2008 07:05 AM (fpk1J)
Posted by: chad at August 09, 2008 07:06 AM (YICPL)
Posted by: Ranba "Oh Shit" Ral at August 09, 2008 07:07 AM (fpk1J)
These cocksuckers are the democrats of today. Worse than anything you could have every imagined under guys like Scoop Jackson and even freaking Rich Gephardt. Those moderates failed and because of their failure we are facing a socialist revolution led by a guy fathered by a guy who was teaching Calvin Murphy a thing or two about irresponsibility back in the day. A guy whose dad sends me intriguing business proposals from his ministry in Lagos 4 to 6 fucking times a day.
We have been reduced to being forced to follow a male underwear model with a mean streak, the progeny of a playa who would have made 3/4 of the NBA players association jealous with the way he laid tracks.
Dear Friend, My name is Barack Obama and I am the director of .....
Posted by: pc at August 09, 2008 07:10 AM (S7zPk)
Posted by: Faye Kinnitt at August 09, 2008 07:25 AM (l1oyw)
The Seattle area has long been strict on water quality control and stormwater management issues for new development. It's as if these fucktards think that if any new development is pristine, then the way their property fucks the environment doesn't matter.
Just once I would like to hear of some environmental law that requires all these brain-fucked eco-shits to retrofit stuff on their properties equal to what they require on new development. You would hear them howl out their assholes!
On the technical side; if a property is sited on clay soil, or other low permeability soil, then you can't infiltrate the stormwater runoff into no matter how many head-up-your-ass regulations are made. To teach these mannaquin butt-fuckers a lesson, they should be buried in this shit, with some breathing space, and water poured over it. They'll see the water standing in their goddamn breathing space and all go to hell where those pustuale suck shits belong.
I believe that answers the technical aspects of this fucking article.
Posted by: TomJW at August 09, 2008 07:39 AM (ppKNT)
Posted by: mesablue at August 09, 2008 07:43 AM (5yNaE)
Filthy owl fucking hippies. Nuke Freemont !
Posted by: Esteban at August 09, 2008 07:48 AM (X7Ey1)
Well, isn't that just dog-stupid <<profanity!).
What? Not profane enough? What are you, a liberal?
As mentioned, no basements & higher heat bills means larger houses (to compensate for tiny west coast penises no basement), more energy used to build and live in them. On stilts? Like some south-pacific bush buggers? NTY, fuck that!
Stilt Houses (4th one down is in Toronto? OMFG people in T.O. are nutz, eh?
Posted by: 5Cats at August 09, 2008 07:50 AM (Knaf0)
Those fucking fucks are fucked. Thinking that saving the fucking topsoil fucks up all fucking thought as to fucking building the fucking foundation. How the fuck can you fucking pour fucking concrete from the fucking sky?
WTF?
Posted by: PISSED at August 09, 2008 07:50 AM (XfJnV)
Time to get rid of these dirty rak-a-frats (and them's their good points)
Posted by: Don, aka Granpapparazzi at August 09, 2008 07:53 AM (87pUN)
I wanted Judy Jetson to have my fuck.
But she was a fuckin cartoon.
Fuckin Seattle, it's filled with Communists, fucked up ones.
They're trying to out-Communist Portland Oregon, home of so many fucked up people that you can only correlate fucked-up-ness with being a goddamn Communist.
Posted by: Rev Dr The Man E Buzz Fucking Fuck Off Fuck at August 09, 2008 08:00 AM (Xp3tL)
House on stilts built on sandy loam? Ah, to revel in the brilliance of a think tank as it plunges towards destruction according to .
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Shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, tits.
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freedom until they have taken it all. That is the nature of this beast. I love you
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Freedom to speak, freedom to worship, freedom of thought, and assembly is
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Better dead than fucking Red.
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Posted by: Socky at August 09, 2008 10:38 AM (d2fuu)
Build a house on stilts? What they think they live in a swamp?
of course the damn fools will require a auto ramp for the handicap access, tripling the cost of building.
But the real question:
Jane or Judy?
Jane is a MILF
and Judy is hot.
BOTH
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Posted by: Hongqi at August 09, 2008 11:56 AM (+WuMm)
In all those fuckin Jetsons cartoons, you see the cities on stilts but you never see what the fuckin stilts are planted in/attached to/standing on.
And Jane Jetson is a MILF.
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Posted by: Denise at August 09, 2008 12:08 PM (Mt4OE)
Tacoma is still a nice place. All the civilized stuff of a big city, but still have friendly folks. The problem here are the blue metro areas telling the red counties what to do. The Dept. of Ecology seems to be staffed by a bunch of whiners from Evergreen State College, most adult folks really pay them no mind. I'm just biding my time here until I get enough money to move back to Georgia.
All y'all just need to look at us and know what greenies with good intentions can do. Now I need to go drown my sorrows in some ribs and cornbread.
Oh yeah, fuck 'em stupid little pinhead ba'sard eco-twats.
Posted by: Sean the Maggot at August 09, 2008 12:15 PM (5cGcJ)
Oh, yeah, one more thing: fuck. There, that's my quota.
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Posted by: hutch1200 at August 09, 2008 02:07 PM (pf7z9)
Hey, you know what would be cool? Underground houses man! Fuckin' A. I want to live in an underground house, like a, like a...a...what the fuck are those little elf-fuckers called- Hombits, yeah!
I'll live underground like a Hombit and my front door is gonna be disguised as like a giant fuckin' mushroom or some shit like that.
Heh.
Dude, quit lippin' it!
Posted by: Disillusioned Eco-Douche at August 09, 2008 02:36 PM (A3+EL)
Posted by: Joe Biden at August 09, 2008 02:55 PM (SLqkZ)
In all those fuckin Jetsons cartoons, you see the cities on stilts but you never see what the fuckin stilts are planted in/attached to/standing on.
There's an episode of Harvey Birdman where that ass George comes back in time to sue everyone. Basically it creates a fucking time paradox that causes sea level to instantly rise to OH SHIT WE'RE ALL DEAD levels, which requiers the stilt cities, but gets blamed on global warming.
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Posted by: southdakotaboy at August 09, 2008 05:55 PM (I8dPi)
Doesn't anyone get it ? New housing is supposed to be built on the model at the new Burkley stadium site. The housing is built on land that does'nt belong to you- up in the trees with ropes and tarps, and you SHIT and PISS into buckets, and dump them on police officers tha are trying to evict you. Later you use the same bucket to haul up food and water (got to recycle you know)
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Posted by: Rocks at August 09, 2008 08:12 PM (7rbe9)
Upgrade -- convert the motor/generator to run on biofuel from your reprocessed shit and garbage rotting under your RV, add some roof top solar panels, a couple barrels to store and recycle rain water and you're neighbors will be green with envy.
Posted by: Dr Fred at August 09, 2008 08:40 PM (JbxXM)
Posted by: SuprKufr at August 10, 2008 05:05 AM (Xm81b)
Houses on f***ing stilts huh? Good thing there aren't any earthquakes in the Seattle area.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/photogallery/quake/
Oops.
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