It's Not Nice To Fool With Mother Nature

[Minimalist]

Interesting essay on building in a swamp.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/9/...Everglades

Been a lifelong fan of civil engineering, and watched with amusement here in Minnesota as they tried to drain, fill, and build in and on swamps. Eventually, the swamp always won- Flooding and consuming even the best designed highways, buildings, and other questionable feats of engineering that assaulted the swamps.

Few years back I inherited a trailer and a 99 year lot lease near Naples in the really big swamp that’s much of Florida. From Atlantic to Gulf and stretching darn near up to Disney World,  the Everglades is one big lovely rich ecosystem that never ceases to entertain and amaze.

[Shell B]

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Florida's worse, "The foolish man built his castle on the sand."

[Chad32]

Water needs to drain somewhere. That's why swamps exist in the first place. Don't build on swampland.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Water needs to drain somewhere. That's why swamps exist in the first place. Don't build on swampland.

Unless you're a Seminole.

[Chad32]

Oh yeah. Apparently there were exceptions.