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Kx:
u want make flood carry d train go ocean?

Jakumo:
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The Oracle has spoken.

Reference:
And her advice is the much sung 'refuse in drains' as the government's own hymn is 'building on canals'. For Lagos state to be building 3 feet by 3 feet drains in this time and age on major streets as we speak is simply foolhardy and asking for trouble. Flood control measures are simply inadequate. We've been told for ages now that the ocean WILL rise by another 30m in the next century. That means most of Lagos will experience persistent and more severe flooding.

This is coming at a time the city is expanding at a faster pace than ever before and instead of the silly government to act fast they are busy generating revenue by issuing permits for the reclamation and development of wet lands - the only naturally occuring sponges left. When they are all paved over let me see where all the water will go. Perhaps to the Atlantic (the lagoon is being reclaimed from all sides)  through their 3 x 3 feet gutters. I laugh.

Just 3 kilometers from Alausa right under the governments nose Isheri is being reclaimed legally - news headlines of tommorrow. In the back end of the Ogba/Agege axis houses have been built right down into a canyon the depth of which you'd think you were in an aircraft flying overhead. Some have legal documents. Tell me which drain will command water to flow upwards. You might as well live in a bath tub. All around LASU on the Badagry axis you see houses with roofs below bridges, culverts and drains and you just wonder who in his right mind will pay good money to live there.

I just think goverment has to be proactive in its urban planning regulations. The spread is enough. Its time to go up, bigger buildings not sprawling ones. Private, corporate and public development has to be consolidated. Lets be realistic we live in houses far too big for most of us and I'm not talking about a room or a compound but the cost of the surrounding infrastructure. Lagos is terribly congested. Build or rent what you need not what you want.

On a personal level if a man has an alternative location outside Lagos where the family can be packed, stacked and racked, take it. The penalty is gradually becoming unpayable.

Finally if you are buying or renting it may be useful to take along a GPS. Most good phones have one. If the location us anywhere below 15m the vendor should give you a good reason why you shouldn't konk his head. Its crazy. Or like someone humorously said on radio as we all instal burglar bars and razor wire and sometimes fire extinguishers perhaps the standard requirement for landlord will be to provide lifejackets in the home. So when it starts to rain someone blows a whistle and everyone dashes for the locker. And perhaps in up market island lets a jet ski may suffice to get big man out to work where his SUV just can't.

honeric01:
Fire, howdy? kiddies[quote author=chi-baby link=topic=702826.msg8680395#msg8680395 date=1310155389]Me scared of dogs Learn to love 'em dearie. They're adorable!

mikuz:
No pun in ten did(no pun intendid) lovely! Hehe!