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Originally Posted by Dkintzer
If you’re newer to Florida, you wouldn’t know, but, building codes in FL require that for every X amt of sq ft of buildings there needs to be a retention/drainage pond for water run off for storms. (If you haven’t been here in the summer, the regular afternoon storms are wicked!) Up in Jacksonville we couldn’t blacktop our office parking lot because there wasn’t enough room for a run off area. Not all retention areas are full of H2O. Look at some of the deep gouges in the ground around highways or on the sides or back of strip malls. These are the same as our “ponds”, just not filled with H2O. As far as running out of the liquid stuff…if you dig down you’ll hit it. It’s why there are no basements in most places in FL. They would just be big pools! I believe I read somewhere that no matter how many folks lived here this state wouldn’t run out of H2O for centuries.😎💦
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Once we were in a deluge summer afternoon downpour at the mall in Gainsville. In just a few minutes, the entire parking lot was flooded above the curbs & it looked like a large lake! Then the rain stopped & within a few minutes there were only a few puddles left & blue skies
& sun returned. Amazing.