Post #3577918
2026-07-02 10:52 UTC
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@Beggarmidas@mastodon.social 2026-07-02 19:30
@CynAq@beige.party I did see the shot. The thing about Phoenix is it's largely very flat. Those storm drains are very precisely engineered to pass water down a specific path at a certain rate depending on his location. He's created a choke point that'll backfill his lot, his neighbor lots, potentially impacting a large part of his particular block. SIx inches may not seem like much but over one acre that's 162,700 gallons of water. The thing about phoenix soil is there is a hard layer of caliche only a...
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@Beggarmidas@mastodon.social 2026-07-02 19:34
@CynAq@beige.party ...Few centimeters deep that does NOT allow for soil penetration. Think of it as a poorly porous layer of hardened clay. There's simply nowhere for the water to go. Flash floods in Arizona are very arbitrary and extremely dangerous. It can be dumping buckets on one segment while four or five kilometers away they're getting nothing but humidity.
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@Beggarmidas@mastodon.social 2026-07-02 19:42
@CynAq@beige.party If and more likely when something DOES happen he's going to be on the hook personally for all the damage to his neighbors property as well. Nor will insurance cover a thin dime of it. They wont even cover HIS claim, since he tampered with the city system. That whole works is engineered very carefully to deposit the runoff into the canals where it can be safely controlled.