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Tue Jul 15, 2025, 06:49 PM Jul 15

From the Star-Ledger, 7/15/25. Why, it's just like being in Texas. [View all]

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Front page article: "Flood rules plan reined in...." It describes a proposal to loosen flood (zoning) rules. The new rules would use a new "model" that predicts global temperature rising at 2.7 degrees, rather than the current estimate of 3.3 degrees.

--- in other words, builders will be able to build more shit in more dangerous places.


Then we go to page 3: "Murphy declares state of emergency as flash flooding wreaks havoc." For those of you who don't live here, yesterday say flooding in N.J. Highways were closed, cars were ruined, people were rescued by boat. One house exploded.

Who remembers reading about the Texas floods, where Mystic Camp sought AND GOT a revision of the flood plain flooding estimates in order lower their flood insurance costs.

And assholes in Trenton are going along with this.

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