Posted on 12/29/2016 7:59:36 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
After seeing all the damage from the recent hurricane, it’s time for South Carolina to abandon projects such as Interstate 73. There’s been a lot of fallen trees and a lot of flooding.
What makes the state believe that flooding of urban areas is not being caused by the filling of wetlands, the heightening of new roads, and putting more concrete pilings in drainage basin areas?
Before building any more roads, an environmental impact study should include what hindrances there will be to water drainage after all those waterways are filled with dirt, concrete piers and steel rebar.
Water from higher ground has to go somewhere and eventually makes its way to the Atlantic Ocean or is absorbed. Otherwise, it will back up like it did after the hurricane, all the way over S.C. 9 and several other major thoroughfares.
And thinking about the Atlantic Ocean. There’s been some talk about the ocean rising. Has someone gone out in the middle and measured the depth from top to bottom?
Anyone considered that all the concrete slabs on the perimeter lands are pressuring the ocean to rise? Like throwing boulders on wet sand. Well, sure, the water rises from displacement.
And the chemicals the military continues to spray aren’t helping matters (before and during the storm) because the spray not only fuels the storm’s tenacity but blocks the sun’s rays from drying up the water on the ground, stifling crop and forestry production to absorb water, and makes everyone sick. ADVERTISING
Something needs to change, and if the state Department of Health and Environmental Control isn’t going to help by protesting air pollution, seismic testing, I-73, and unneeded road construction, then we need a local environmental protection group to form and mandate impact studies before anymore damage to the land, sea, air and local waterways occurs. This doesn’t even mention the light, electrical, and EMF pollution traveling the land.
It’s no wonder the turtles and fish find somewhere else to lay eggs and feed. The Grand Strand looks like a meteor shower parked on the beach to ward off predators.
Citizens, wildlife, and even the land, are suffering.
I might add that three roads are still closed within three miles of my house in Loris, and that makes me wonder where the money is to fix them. What’s happened to the politics of helping?
Kenneth M. Lee, Loris
The only threat from new roads projects is to the taxpayer’s wallet.
Well, we don't want the oceans to rise, do we, Kenneth?
Either this guy is a supreme satirist or a complete idiot
First of all God made the earth and the "environment", He made the environment FOR man, not man for the environment, and He made it to be eternally sustainable. All this bullsh#t is from the Lying Left who wants unlimited government tyranny.
Second of all, the feds have NO constitutional authority, the Constitution being the the ONLY legitimate source of federal, over the environment. The environment is a states' issue.
Stop having kids—grandkids—& great-grandkids until we can assess the damage to the environment!!!
Kick all the illegals back o where they came from so we can keep America cleaner!!
Ok this is either massive stupid or pretty decent satire.
The local DA is on his way over to SIEZE his CARS right now so as to prevent him from further destroying the environment.
Environmentalists, save the planet now, kill yourself.
This person sounds like Gov Jerry Brown.
The currents roads are full of potholes and are uneven.
Millions inconvenienced because of nuts!
T-22 and counting. January 20th 2017 may go down in history as the beginning of the end of stupidity in America. MAGA!
To look at this form the UN Agenda 21 point of view there will be no need for most of the roads with 85% of the people killed off.
I know exactly where that sign on I70 is. West of Topeka,KS @ 20 miles.
Hey Kenneth, (what’s the frequency?)
Stop writing stupid stuff because of the impact on the environment.
Your “dirt-first” crowd of elitists try to hide your contempt for freedom and population growth, behind concern for the environment.
Many states have been buying up wetlands for decades
Oh my God, this guy lives in my area of South Carolina.
His stupidity reminds me of that Congressman Hank Johnson guy talking about how Guam is going to tip over and capsize if too many people go there.
Civil engineers, Kenneth. They learn the stuff you’re talking about in the first month they go to school to get their degrees.
The reason why they take so long in getting roads repaired is because of idiots like yourself, Kenneth. You and your stupid friends in Loris bother stupid politicians who pass stupid laws that slow road construction and maintenance down and shift the funds over to your hair-styling, cell-phone-accessory-selling, grocery-store-cashier friends.
The paper either thought this was a great way to troll it's readers for laughs or the editor is an absolute idiot to print this moronic letter. .
I go with the later...
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