"Cyrus Afzali" wrote in message
news:pr03c4t9rbr8tvungq08jqkm9a9a41c28u@4ax.com...
| On Fri, 5 Sep 2008 11:14:05 -0500, "David Moffitt"
| stomping-leftist-twits.org> wrote:
|
| >
| >"Cyrus Afzali" wrote in message
| >news:4sd2c4teremnuc8sjmljj07mpd1lufn1sg@4ax.com...
| >| On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 23:16:51 -0500, "David Moffitt"
| >| stomping-leftist-twits.org> wrote:
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| >| >
| >| >Katrina happened because a microbe died?
| >| >
| >| >Just don't expect donations to come pouring in
| >| >
| >| >I don't, that what my homeowners insurance is for.
| >|
| >| Show's how much you know about homeowners insurance. During the Gulf
| >| Coast hurricanes, there was a big battle waged by insurers who tried
| >| to say that people's home damage was covered by floods. You must not
| >| realize that homeowners insurance doesn't cover floods.
| >|
| >| Man, you right-wing twits (taking a spin off your cutesy little e-mail
| >| there) just don't know much about much, do you?
| >
| >If it rains enough that my home is threatened by a flood I'll be on the
look
| >out for the ark. To flood me Nashville will underwater by several hundred
| >feet. I'm smart enough to not live below sea level.
| >
| Hey, genius, you don't have to live below sea level to have flooding.
| Really, are you this dense? Honestly, please, I'm begging you... prove
| to me you're not this dense.
Hey genius I live several thousand feet above sea level to avoid flooding.
It's a large deduction from the premium on my homeowners insurance.
|
| All you need for localized flooding to occur is for rain to fall
| faster than the ground can absorb it. Problems with absorption can
| occur both when there's been a substantial dry spell or when the
| ground is already saturated.
I live at the very crest of a hill and can look down onto the top of WTVF's
tower off of I-24. It ain't going to flood up here until Nashville has
drown.
