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arrowhead """lakes""" in phoenix, az
Drunk boating deaths are probably through the roof there.
My first thought was, this must smell really bad so i looked into it. Apparently they stock the "lakes" and when it rains (once every six months), all the fish die from the chemical runoff from everyone's yards.
Unlimited genocide on arrowhead lakes.
Is that chemical runoff from pesticides/herbicides? Or do they have to pump their lawns full of so much fertilizer to get the grass to grow there that the nitrate levels are through the roof?
I didn't look into this specific place but I imagine those plus -- cars -- are enough to kill animals as small as fish. Non-gas (liquid and solid) pollution as I like to call them, from autos are plenty. Tire wear particles, random metal debris from chasis and drive-chain, fuel, oil, grease, coolant leaks, brake dust, exhaust soot, there's a whole bunch of shit coming out of them than just CO2. Truely an evil technology.
chemical runoff from everyone's yards.
Lawns 
They say the fall of the Roman empire was seen to some as simply when their roads and bridges stopped being repaired, the fall of the yankee empire will be marked by no government workers showing up to stock your pond so it turns into a malaria cesspool
no fucking way man that's invoking the dead guinea pig copypasta with the snake
There's like a bajillion of these in Miami and Orlando but those make sense there. Like they actually connect to the ocean through some canals.
“Sense” in that they’re actually close to sea level, maybe, but can you get ~~flood~~ rising sea levels insurance? Or will they all be literally underwater in a decade?
“Sense” in that they’re actually close to sea level, maybe, but can you get flood rising sea levels insurance? Or will they all be literally underwater in a decade?
This will not be a problem as they can simply sell their properties to Aquaman.
Everyone know Aquaman is a slumlord who pays rock bottom prices and just lets the places rot.
I think started mostly of a drainage thing. Southern Florida is fucked regardless of those canals. The peninsula is like karst so they can't even build a dike like New Orleans.
Sooo, not just at high risk thanks to climate change but also poisoning the ocean too? Very cool.
Don't worry, the ocean is poisoning us back with salt water intrusion into the aquifers.
What exactly is causing that salt water intrusion? There have always been brackish regions, are they perhaps somehow intruding further inland than they used to?
Perhaps it’s more accurate to say we’re poisoning ourselves?
The bigger problem with those is that many were not developed with water and sewer systems, instead each lot has its own septic system and water well. These areas are actually too dense to support every home doing that, so people have started to run out of water. Now cities like Cape Coral are spending a lot of money to bring sanitary sewer and water to every lot.
Fuck me I didnt sven think about how utilities would work on these layouts. They don't.
Every time one of these suburb nightmares gets posted I can never get over the street name conventions. How do you have multiple streets with the same name that don't connect and aren't even near each other
oh god, the bizarre combination of indigenous tribal names, anglo names, and numbered city streets (in the suburbs???) why are we putting N or W in front of the names, when the streets are curved? why are some of the cul-de-sacs avenues, some are lanes, and others are drives?? did we need a N 52nd Dr and a N 52nd Ave?
this place is every delivery driver's nightmare
this place is every delivery driver's nightmare
and you just know they're crappy tippers
One of my favourite Boonta Vista bits is them getting angry at American street naming conventions
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Umberto Eco, Travels in Hyperreality
I honestly do to some extent. They worship money so much that they chase it even into places they have no love for or desire to live in. What an empty life.
The first rule of Arrowhead Lakes HOA's Lake and Boating Rules is Swimming or wading is prohibited by Arizona regulations governing the use of reclaimed wastewater.
I can't tell if you're being serious or making a joke, but if that's forreal that's amazing. Like permanently blue balling yourself on a hot dry day staring at the water right behind your house
Lots of the roads have little breakwaters, so yeah, confined to only being able to boat over to the neighbours across the “lake”
In phoenix
I baby sat in there once as a teen. It was awful.
Fractal abomination
the fractal part is only bad because it's accommodating cars. if it was crisscrossed by walkways and bridges to allow foot/bike/mobility device and boat traffic it would be cool to have an artificial venice situation somewhere besides fucking arizona.
Venice is already the artificial Venice, they were refugees forced to hide in the lagoons because of Attila the Hun and eventually built a settlement there
The saudis made a bunch of stuff like that. Found out you needed waterflow if you didn't just want a moscito incubator. I imagine there's the same issue here.
lmao, are those docks & boats too? Can they even make it between each “lake” or are they confined to only visit the neighbours they share a “lake” with?!?
Just as the Aztecs intended
The Aztecs built on a lake, the Yankees made lakes around their buildings. You'd think one of them would be easier to maintain than the others, but the answer might surprise you
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This country is so doomed
Long live China. Long live the Chinese stock market.
I will be fucking dancing in the streets the day the NYSE collapses
The longer I look at it, the angrier I get because it looks like ass to drive around
wipe it off the face of the earth
But like, you can't go boating or swimming or fishing in that, right? All it does is reflect sunlight from that Phoenix Arizona sun directly into their houses.
I think they all have little docks, and maybe 70% have boats, plus lots of them have pools, too, since you wouldn’t want to swim in the “lake”
They stock them with fish, but they regularly die because of the pesticides and herbicides leeching into the water from the lawns that they insist on maintaining
I look forward to the day probably like 50 years from now when these are abandoned relics representing only a monument to man's hubris
may a nearby AI data center drain them dry
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