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Nobody wanders around the gator and snake infested pond behind their Florida house.
by subpixel 7y ago
Nobody wanders around the gator and snake infested pond behind their Florida house.
- xvector 7y agoAs someone who used to be a Floridian, tales of gators in ponds are greatly exaggerated :) The vast majority of ponds, especially community ponds, do not have gators. Snakes? Another story.
- munk-a 7y ago> The vast majority of ponds, especially community ponds, do not have gators. The need for this qualification on your statement really isn't helping. /s Yea, local sterotypes tend to be that way, Boston is actually a really nice city with (mostly, except the crazy insulated catholics) pleasant people.
- skrebbel 7y agoI don't know anything about Florida. Why would developers choose to build suburbs with ponds in areas like that?
- lotsofpulp 7y agoThey are retention ponds, it’s necessary to create areas where water can drain into.
- newnewpdro 7y agoA large part of Florida is the combination of coastal and at sea level. People want to live there, so they actively and continuously drain the swamp and build wherever possible. Sea level rise is posing some expensive problems for them, obviously.
- wtvanhest 7y agoThey dig the pond and use the dirt as fill to build houses on at a higher level than sea level.
- stetrain 7y ago1) dig pond for drainage, retention, and fill dirt 2) use fill dirt to raise land for houses so they are above flood levels 3) sell houses with "waterfront views"
- tomatotomato37 7y agoOn 3, this leads to this "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotonda_West,_Florida" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotonda_West,_Florida" hilarious suburban development, complete with inaccessible canals
- gruez 7y agoimagine the smell and mosquitoes
- driverdan 7y agoMost ponds don't smell.
- seanmcdirmid 7y agoDoes the water drain, evaporate, or just stagnate?
- partialrecall 7y agoDon't worry, the heat and humidity will distract you from both.
- DoreenMichele 7y agoFlorida has unusual issues. The groundwater isn't very far below the surface and you basically can't have basements there. Some parts of it are swamp and it has a lot of karst that is prone to sink holes. (Off the top of my head -- so anyone more knowledge, feel free to nitpick that to death. Alternately, anyone desperate to pick a fight and not knowledgeable enough, feel free to google my remark to within an inch of its life.)
- sysadmindotfail 7y agoNative Floridian. I spent my youth shoeless around these ponds, catching and releasing gators, snakes, and fish. I find those experiences growing up invaluable. One man's trash is another man's treasure.
- dirtybird04 7y agoThe first time I heard of "Florida Man", I thought that shit was made up. Now I'm incredibly fascinated (and perhaps a bit scared) by it.
- eindiran 7y agoThe "Florida Man" phenomenon is likely due more to reporting laws in Florida than it is to the culture in Florida: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_information_legislation_(Florida) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_information_legisla... https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/how-floridas-proud-open-government-laws-lead-to-the-shame-of-florida-man-news-stories-7608595 https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/how-floridas-proud-open-g...
- phkahler 7y agoIs that why fark has a Florida tag?
- frgotmylogin 7y agoInland coastal Alabama, same deal. It's great to know how to catch turtles, snakes and lizards with my bare hands. Doesn't come up much while developing software but it definitely balanced out the Super Nintendo time growing up.
- socceroos 7y agoAustralian here. Catching a snake here has you limping home as fast as possible to get to the hospital before rigor mortis sets in.