A question I did not anticipate asking while taking the bus

[james_davis_nicoll]

"Why is there a boat blocking the road?"

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[scott-sanford.livejournal.com]

In my city we have a facility which makes large river barges. Occasionally people have griped about (potentially expensive) riverfront property near downtown being occupied by unsightly industry rather than, say, overpriced condos. So far sanity has won out and nobody's managed to tear it out so as to put overpriced condos onto the flood plain (until the next flood comes through).