Originally Posted By: AuntyM
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Remember these areas were logged before and there was sufficient drainage back then but guess what where this water use to drain is all paved now..


Interesting point Kev, and I think the two cities and Lewis County are going to try and use logging to deflect as much responsibility as they can.

YOU know what it's like to live in an economically depressed community, so I don't have to tell you how important decent paying jobs and modern homes are to John Q. Public. It's called growth. It isn't that people don't care, it's that people have an expectation for a better life and they demand their local governments facilitate the process.

Unless you folks can figure out how to keep the birthrate down and prevent new residents from moving here, this kind of thing is going to keep happening, year after year.



That's exactly right, however it's solely the fault--SOLELY--of the local Lewis County and Twin Cities gov'ts and it can't be denied. I don't thiink the Lewis County Gov'ts will attempt to blame logging. The local hillbillies would tar & feather them for being Environmental Communists.
Loser County has that BS "It provides jobs" line that greedy officials use to facilitate their "any profit at any cost" mentality. That's the mentality down there--No one cares about what's tomorrow because Billy Bob is making a dollar today, and they are so low class down there a dollar is still an ass-load of money.

80% at or below the poverty level. Appalachia West. Come and see what generations of ingrained Conservativism can do for you. When I was a kid there, there were other kids at school who's parents couldn't even afford them socks and in some cases even bath water.

Night before last I saw a guy I used to party with on the TV with the same old stupid look on his face pointing to his washed out mobile home and saying "I durn near lost everything." Well, I was hanging out with that idiot during the flood of '96 and I can tell you he knows as well as I do where the flood water goes when The Chehalis floods. I'm guessing he got a heck of a deal on that mobile home out there in Doty.