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"If he takes down his painting for economic reasons I say we stand on his lawn with signs saying the same thing as well as some other better versed and well pointed commentary. perhaps take a tww lawyer with us for back up for when the man inevitably comes and tells us we can't stand on his yard with signs although we have his permission."

8/3/2009 4:20:13 PM

I wonder how much they paid him for the right-of-way prior to the road widening. He probably got paid for about half of the appraised value of the entire property and jumped on it, only to realize that he can't sell what he was left with for the remaining half in this economy. It's a little bit late to be bitching now.

I doubt he has any flooding issues caused by the road construction. he has half as much land draining towards his house now than he did before construction. the increase in slope shouldn't be making that much of a difference, because you shouldn't be relying on soil permeability to prevent flooding.

8/3/2009 4:29:51 PM

I put the article on digg, although it may have been a duplicate. I just got a StumbleUpon and a del.icio.us and a Fark account.

8/3/2009 4:29:52 PM

I put it on Facebook and Twitter.

8/3/2009 4:32:01 PM

Someone should get the /b/tards in on this. I don't know what they do, but it's always fun to watch them work.

8/3/2009 4:34:37 PM

8/3/2009 4:34:50 PM

I'm on 4chan right now.

8/3/2009 4:34:50 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj1JXL-zvyw

8/3/2009 4:37:49 PM

lol at marko.

8/3/2009 4:39:14 PM

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"I wonder how much they paid him for the right-of-way prior to the road widening. He probably got paid for about half of the appraised value of the entire property and jumped on it, only to realize that he can't sell what he was left with for the remaining half in this economy. It's a little bit late to be bitching now. I doubt he has any flooding issues caused by the road construction. he has half as much land draining towards his house now than he did before construction. the increase in slope shouldn't be making that much of a difference, because you shouldn't be relying on soil permeability to prevent flooding."

your opinion seems to be based on a lot of gross assumptions and some fundamental misunderstandings.

lets start with the things that can be validated. the flooding is most likely caused by the construction. granted correlation does not bear causation, but according to the home owner he did not experience any water damage until following the construction. moreover, the photos located in this very thread help support his claim. the land that was removed on his property largely had no slope until much further back as well as trees and foliage. an alteration in these two components would have a adverse impact on water drainage in any yard. grade reconstruction could easily play another role.

secondly you can't prove how much money, if any, the owner was given for the use of his land, and as such placing the burden and responsibility on him as if participating in the construction was an act of free will is disingenuous.

8/3/2009 4:40:18 PM

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"I doubt he has any flooding issues caused by the road construction. He has half as much land draining towards his house now than he did before construction. the increase in slope shouldn't be making that much of a difference"

That depends on what the initial grades were and what the final grades are.

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"because you shouldn't be relying on soil permeability to prevent flooding."

I will agree that you shouldn't rely on it heavily, but every bit helps.



Contrary point: usually people find all sorts of things wrong with their property after construction projects begin or end. People *notice* cracks in their house or flooding in their yards that they never remember before construction began.

[Edited on August 3, 2009 at 4:44 PM. Reason : edit]

8/3/2009 4:41:37 PM

I got the pics!

gimme a sec to upload

8/3/2009 4:43:40 PM

Four gold stars for begonias!

8/3/2009 4:44:38 PM

TWW Action News!

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8/3/2009 4:47:31 PM

8/3/2009 4:47:40 PM

8/3/2009 4:48:51 PM

is said individual african american?

if so, we need this guy...

8/3/2009 4:48:55 PM

Definitely not a negro!

8/3/2009 4:49:50 PM

LOVING the GoLo comments on WRAL

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"Cary did someone wrong?? Why is this news? From what I understand this happens there on a daily basis to someone. I feel sorry for this guy, Cary will never do anything to help him out, they dont want to ruin their reputation of being uppity and never wrong. Good luck fella."

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"Actually the Village of Cary does have an ordinance that prohibits water from flowing uphill. The ordinance didn't exist until SAS told the muppets to do so."

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"Um, I'm not a Civil Engineer and I know that water runs down hill. I guess I must have stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night."

[Edited on August 3, 2009 at 4:59 PM. Reason : ]

8/3/2009 4:50:39 PM

oh, well maybe this guy?

8/3/2009 4:51:42 PM

in that case we need this guy

8/3/2009 4:51:54 PM

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"i mean, really, why would you buy a house somewhere that you can't even paint whatever the fuck you want on the side y'all come on out to the country. if you don't like how the water runs, you can get you a backhoe and a bulldozer and make it go where you want."

THIS

8/3/2009 4:56:02 PM

[Edited on August 3, 2009 at 5:05 PM. Reason : BIG, thanks bobby]

8/3/2009 5:01:26 PM

haha, dude drives a prowler

8/3/2009 5:05:20 PM

Yeah his property looks pretty raped screwed.

i'd bet almost anything that the city of Cary did not do an evaluation prior to the construction to see how potential changes could affect his water flow. it is a cost they likely skirted and now consequences for that failure are coming to light.

8/3/2009 5:05:44 PM

and the spray paint is a hot neon bright ass pink color in person

8/3/2009 5:06:48 PM

EPIC PICTURE TAKING

8/3/2009 5:06:55 PM

Wow haha

8/3/2009 5:07:13 PM

From the before and after picture, he definitely could be having erosion problems with a good, heavy rain. Before he had a front lawn full of trees. Now he's got just one and a steep slope of loosely packed soil. It's definitely a problem.

8/3/2009 5:07:35 PM

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"haha, dude drives a prowler"

but seriously, that sucks.

8/3/2009 5:10:07 PM

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8/3/2009 5:10:59 PM

I'd be pissed about the driveway too.

8/3/2009 5:12:01 PM

Yeah that's pretty fucked up

8/3/2009 5:15:04 PM

I tried to ask the wral guy to take my pic with the house, but he was busy

8/3/2009 5:16:13 PM

he just gained a ton of respect by driving a prowler and doing this to his house in my book.

8/3/2009 5:20:26 PM

Today, we're all David Bowden

8/3/2009 5:23:17 PM

In this case, a picture was only worth 6 words.

8/3/2009 5:40:39 PM

he gets no respect for driving a prowler. what a terrible execution of an automobile, and he fell for it. now i can only imagine the sales pitch he fell for during the road widening.

8/3/2009 5:48:25 PM

buys a prowler
buys a house in cary

he's really batting 1.000

8/3/2009 6:00:09 PM

I wanna know what the rest of the note said.

8/3/2009 6:01:08 PM

maybe he bought it after they jacked up his house because he thought it was a boat

8/3/2009 6:03:47 PM

^^ maybe "NC"

8/3/2009 6:18:25 PM

yea I think i see the shape of a C at the very end of the note that's been painted over.

maybe he thought this story would go national.

8/3/2009 6:19:28 PM

i think the "comma" is due to him falling off the ladder while putting in the period

8/3/2009 6:19:36 PM

Oh, okay. I thought there may have been obscene words.

8/3/2009 6:22:40 PM

man, fuck that ugly house...

he did get fucked over though from what ive read

So, this is more of a question, but doesnt the city legaly have the right two expand its roads (up to 14' or something like that)? Do you get some sort of reimbersement for how this affects the value of your home or trees taken out? When they widened tryon rd. near university house or whatever it's called these days, they damn near put the road in people's lap.



[Edited on August 3, 2009 at 6:41 PM. Reason : d]

8/3/2009 6:36:19 PM

you guys fell off

8/3/2009 6:42:16 PM

I think "Screwed" was painted over "Fucked" or something, where most of the writing is, the house is white. Underneath both windows is dirty so we know that wasn't painted over.

The grading doesn't look very good, and he had to have his whole driveway reworked because the original path would have been too steep for most any car to climb, especially a prowler. I would assume the town paid for the driveway rework and for the land consumed, but I doubt that covered the resulting problems nor the property reduction.

8/3/2009 7:07:20 PM

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"Spontaneous All American 14425 Posts user info edit post I'm on 4chan right now."

link?

8/3/2009 7:44:35 PM

i wonder if it's flooding right now...

set em up

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8/3/2009 7:47:39 PM