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RE: Waiting for the bus ... and some general thoughs on silly planning
Yes it's crazy what they come up with. About 20 year's ago I watched a new housing estate starting to get built. I said to a friend they should not build there as it floods after lot's of heavy rain. And a couple of years later it got flooded and I always thought they should talk to local people before doing these things as we all new it floods.
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Thats insane! Sounds like a huge insurance fraud or something😂
It's a bit of the same in Norway, today houses have been built on places where nobody would dare building houses a century ago. Perhaps the availability of insurance is part of the reason, people can afford taking bigger risks as long as it's not reflected in the insurance premium.
Then again, I have a feeling the pendulum is going the other way nowadays, we're much more concerned about natural disasters today than some few decade ago.