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To: mewzilla
“You have to understand that Ellicott City is a mill town. It was built where it is for a reason,” said Andy Miller, a geomorphologist at UMBC. “[It was] to take advantage of the very steep narrow valley for water power.

CO2 forced people to build here two centuries ago.

73 posted on 06/01/2018 7:35:48 PM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: Teacher317

And we’ve never had floods before. Psych.

BTW, rain is starting up again right now. Hope this weekend is not too hard on us again.


76 posted on 06/01/2018 8:30:26 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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