What a short-sighted response. Poor people can’t afford to just pick up and leave when yuppies come in and drive the prices up. SSAS and other technology offerings are easily exported throughout the globe making consolidation of global employees easy, you still need plenty of other people in society to make their…

“The things I want to buy are not on sale” != “Everything sucks”

“The things I want to buy are not on sale” != “Everything sucks”

I just finished Before the Fall. I wouldn’t pay more than a couple of dollars. Without giving too much away since it is kind of a mystery, the most pivotal characters are the ones you know almost nothing about until the last 30 pages. When I got to the last ten pages, right before the big reveal, I literally said out…

I just finished Before the Fall. I wouldn’t pay more than a couple of dollars. Without giving too much away since it…

But then the OP wouldn’t be able to write such a pithy, condescending science-denying comment, now would they?

Ah good ol’ Rachel Carson. That book helped bring about a lot of decent change back in the day

Reading the article you linked to, it sounds like the shell thickening was only observed in seven of the 18 species they studied - from their examples, it sounds like mostly the complex crustaceans like lobsters and crabs, which may have developed a defense mechanism. The rest of the shells thinned as hypothesized so…

Funny, because nothing confirms my happiness of being in a stable, healthy, long term relationship like Dr Nerdlove’s columns.

I imagine watching that last three inches as the flood waters crested was rather stressful. Glad it worked out.

Aye, that’s a marketing success if there ever was one.

Do they make these in “New Orleans size?”

All I know is this is a real product designed to do real work in dewatering Constuction sites, rerouting streams and lakes so people can do projects. Go to aquadam.net and see for yourself. This isn’t some gimmick.

Yep. “Not bad” is still a hell of a lot better than “completely flooded house” and not that much worse than “perfect.”

As someone from The Netherlands - having a long national history of dealing with holding back water - I can tell you that nothing is foolproof...

Depending on your perspective he either lucked out by buying a 30" dam for a 27" flood or was really unlucky it got all the way up to 27".

Eventually, yes. But since floodwaters tend to come and go relatively quickly, there won’t be a lot of time for the seepage to get through. Also, a bit of trenching with a shovel can contain the seepage to a single basin, where a pump can eject it.

It’s water filled, not air filled.

A bummer that his insurance will probably not pick up the tab for the dam, despite it having saved them 10's of thousands in payout for flood repairs. Very cool to see such an innovative design work in a real world situation rather than being promoted with motivational infographics and Kickstarter hype.

From what I’ve read, Houston has pretty much assimilated the civil engineering and city planning premeditation of Lagos with a dash of Port Moresby.

I know it probably won’t happen, but it’d be an awesome gesture if his flood insurance at least partially reimbursed him for the expense of the dam.

Good for him and his family. And good for the makers of AquaDam.