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sheila9165milo t1_j4q5778 wrote

Reply to comment by Glucose12 in Police: Man fires gun multiple times inside Dover apartment, rounds hit at least 1 other unit by Environmental3rdEye

LOL, I grew up in Dover and had a friend who lived there in the 90s, his grandmother lived there in a different apartment during the same time frame, and my dad lived there in the 70s. Definitely has not been updated since they were built in the early 70s - same crappy little weed choked "pond" out front and the world's smallest community swimming pool, lol. The studios were decently laid out with privacy area for the bedroom but yeah, I can see how the creek wold flood the place although I never knew anyone who had to deal with that.

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Glucose12 t1_j4qjqgp wrote

Ha! I was actually there long enough to see it get flooded out twice.

One time it was enough for a lot of the cars in that large parking lot to the WSW to have water up to their hubcaps. It follows the slope of the land, so the cars in the north end of it were high and dry, and the ones at the other end... yeah.

The other time was bad. I remember wading out(knee level) to the back side, and actually seeing people trying to get into the studios on the South/SSE side(closest to the brook), wading in to them at about waist height. Those were down at ground level, as opposed to the rest of the facility which was built up on a berm to a certain extent. Some of the people going in were, I think, workers for OML trying to ensure that breakers were shut off, etc(?)

I think they may have decommissioned that row of studios after that(?)

PS: That "pond"! I'm sure the frogs loved it once it got choked by cattails.

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sheila9165milo t1_j4sa0k2 wrote

LOL, what a major drag! I had no idea those places flooded out so badly. However, with the acceleration of global warming since the 90's, I guess it doesn't surprise me. I'm sure the city building inspectors told them to shut down those units b/c you know Corporate America would have just kept renting them out...

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Glucose12 t1_j4si0u4 wrote

This was actually back in the mid/early 2000's, so well before the current spate of environmental wackiness. Just a "normal" one out of ten year flood probability. I wonder how much the OML developers paid to grease the palms of the insurance adjusters.

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Glucose12 t1_j4si5qo wrote

Not sure they're even a "corporation", but they had the sleaze sufficient for an org suffering from corporatism/sleaze.

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sheila9165milo t1_j4vb2kg wrote

That's what I meant, typical business as usual for businesses to get away with crap we individuals aren't able to.

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