Oh no the clear flood plains got floodier than usual and flooded all the ground we developed in the clear flood plain. Why is nature so cruel??!
Uh, I was gonna say. Humans practice agriculture around rivers because they flood, fill the area with rich silt and organic matter. Nile delta anyone?
Got a couple of acres of swamp down in Florida. Fascinating seeing this on a microscale. From my tent and north, we got 1-3" of crappy topsoil. Heavy thatch of roots, then sand and some clay. Go 10' south and its rich, black silt, the real sticky icky. 10-seconds with a trowel, you know what's up, where you're at.
Hell, the flora changes within 50-100', just look up. Pine and oak to the north, cypress and the like to the south. Doesn't take a masters in ecology to see the lay of the land.
"Let's build shit here! Look how rich the soil is, surely if will never flood right next to a river!"
I am disappoint at the engineers who didn't make those bridges taller. C'mon guys.
Tfw America's entire breadbasket is just an iceage floodplain stretching from Iowa to Utah and all the way down into the gulf lmao
It's flooding down in Texas, all the telephone lines are down.
