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arrowhead """lakes""" in phoenix, az
Just as the Aztecs intended
wipe it off the face of the earth
"We are tempted to feel sorry for the poor history-less millionaire who, to recreate Europe in the desolate savannahs, destroys the genuine and turns it into an unreal lagoon."
Umberto Eco, Travels in Hyperreality
I honestly do to some extent. They worship money so much that they chase it even into places they have no love for or desire to live in. What an empty life.
My first thought was, this must smell really bad so i looked into it. Apparently they stock the "lakes" and when it rains (once every six months), all the fish die from the chemical runoff from everyone's yards.
Unlimited genocide on arrowhead lakes.
Is that chemical runoff from pesticides/herbicides? Or do they have to pump their lawns full of so much fertilizer to get the grass to grow there that the nitrate levels are through the roof?
There's like a bajillion of these in Miami and Orlando but those make sense there. Like they actually connect to the ocean through some canals.
“Sense” in that they’re actually close to sea level, maybe, but can you get ~~flood~~ rising sea levels insurance? Or will they all be literally underwater in a decade?
I think started mostly of a drainage thing. Southern Florida is fucked regardless of those canals. The peninsula is like karst so they can't even build a dike like New Orleans.
Sooo, not just at high risk thanks to climate change but also poisoning the ocean too? Very cool.
Don't worry, the ocean is poisoning us back with salt water intrusion into the aquifers.
What exactly is causing that salt water intrusion? There have always been brackish regions, are they perhaps somehow intruding further inland than they used to?
Perhaps it’s more accurate to say we’re poisoning ourselves?
God i love mosquitos
I was about to say, there's probably no mosquitos in Arizona to begin with, but that's not true.
dw, it’s probably heavily chlorinated
I baby sat in there once as a teen. It was awful.
Lots of the roads have little breakwaters, so yeah, confined to only being able to boat over to the neighbours across the “lake”
Every time one of these suburb nightmares gets posted I can never get over the street name conventions. How do you have multiple streets with the same name that don't connect and aren't even near each other
oh god, the bizarre combination of indigenous tribal names, anglo names, and numbered city streets (in the suburbs???) why are we putting N or W in front of the names, when the streets are curved? why are some of the cul-de-sacs avenues, some are lanes, and others are drives?? did we need a N 52nd Dr and a N 52nd Ave?
this place is every delivery driver's nightmare
One of my favourite Boonta Vista bits is them getting angry at American street naming conventions
In phoenix
lmao, are those docks & boats too? Can they even make it between each “lake” or are they confined to only visit the neighbours they share a “lake” with?!?
I look forward to the day probably like 50 years from now when these are abandoned relics representing only a monument to man's hubris
Fractal abomination
the fractal part is only bad because it's accommodating cars. if it was crisscrossed by walkways and bridges to allow foot/bike/mobility device and boat traffic it would be cool to have an artificial venice situation somewhere besides fucking arizona.
But like, you can't go boating or swimming or fishing in that, right? All it does is reflect sunlight from that Phoenix Arizona sun directly into their houses.
I think they all have little docks, and maybe 70% have boats, plus lots of them have pools, too, since you wouldn’t want to swim in the “lake”
Thanks, I hate it.
Phoenix and Scottsdale are the worst
The longer I look at it, the angrier I get because it looks like ass to drive around
Oh how horrid!
This fukin thing is about 5 miles from my mom's place in Glendale.
(Yes, she lives on a golf course, but we are not at all rich. There's golf courses everywhere.)
Next year when I visit mom, I'm gonna drop a kayak in this swimming pool and do my best to make the residents nervous.
Fully Leaded Baking
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