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Monty Newton wrote:
> Was it the intent of the city - in consideration of 'protected' plants in Waller - to send out a crew with weed eaters to cut down everything in Waller Creek? This happened I guess late last week. they are sparing the small trees and such - that are flagged - but they destroy everything in sight.
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I hate it when they do this. I'm not sure one can speak of the city as
an entity, but it certainly was the intention of some ass backwards
stuck-in-the-suburban-1950's-mentality do nothing manager who works for
the city. Your tax dollars at work! This is why they had to raise your
property taxes this year: to do a better job spending money to
obliterate nature.
The UT physical plant people have a similar mentality. Several mornings
a week when I run through campus I have to jump over rivers
(literally) of water running down 21st street to Waller creek -- runoff
from the automatic sprinkler systems. They must dump thousands of
gallons of processed water into the creek every other morning. A month
or so ago -- when we were still having all that rain and right after a
day of particularly heavy showers -- I came through campus and was met
by the surrealistic site of, you guessed it, the sprinklers running full
blast. It was even lightly raining at the time. Because the ground was
already completely saturated, almost all the water was running down the
street into an already at-capacity creek bed, and half of 21st street
was under water. The only explanation for this stupidity that I can
think of is that the manager of this department is some kind of right
wing Christian nut trying to do his part to hasten the arrival of
Armageddon. They don't even teach this kind of stuff in dumb skool; it
would take a higher calling to think to do it.
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