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On 8/28/2018 9:20 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 8/28/2018 7:19 PM, jmcquown wrote:
>
>>>> If you had a sump pump in Florida the damn thing would be running
>>>> nearly all the time.
>>>
>>> Not all that long ago most of Florida was below sea level, now it's
>>> built mainly on dredged sand that's pumped from the sea floor by giant
>>> barges to use as fill.

>>
>> I guess you never heard of Ponce de Leon. Heh.
>>
>> Jill

>
> Ponce was Spanish, but that is next door to France.Â* He learned how to
> make French drains and brought them to Florida and saved the land.


He proclaimed. They fought over basements.

Jill