Here’s an article that I found today. I wish I could say that it was unbelievable, but it’s a tale of dithering , balme shifting and hubris that’s only too believable.
Housing was actively built on land that was designed to flood. And that’s why last year’s floods were so damaging.
And after the flooding, I remeber hearing a city official praising Houston’s lack of zoning as a good thing because it led to afordable housing.
When I lived in Missouri, I drove to work everyday past a billboard that read “Your tax dollars are destroying this floodplain.” I never know exactly what it was about, but hard to ignore that all the businesses popping up in that area were on land that flooded less than ten years before.
When I was working for a flood data company over a decade ago (coincidentally located in Texas), we had a FEMA engineer give a talk about the specific problems in the article and how it related to our work.
One specific ill I can see is how pre-meltdown banks were actively trying to identify and absorb our business practices to bring flood plain issues “in-house”, presumably to save money, but I strongly suspect to have an advantage at pushing an increasing number of subprime mortgages before the collapse.
I believe the banks were definitely complicit in aiding greedy developers before the 2007 collapse, and it finally caught up to them in 2008.
not ever surprised.
Nonsense. You brought something useful back to life.
Wait… is it not “Putz”?
Apparently it’s just utz – the little girl is not any letter at all.
Maybe the designer of that box just never got the pmemo.
I thought her name was Bee…
You sure it’s not Deezn?
My brain was trying to make it “Qutz”—pronounced “Cuties” or “Cutes” or something (Oh, for cute!)—but “Putz” does make more sense.
From Wikipedia:
The official mascot of Utz Brands is the Little Utz Girl, or more commonly known as the Utz Girl. She has appeared on Utz snack food packages and/or in the company logo since the 1920s. During the early years, she was drawn from a realistic perspective as a young, dark-haired girl with a bow, bob hairstyle, and blushing cheeks, and shown reaching into a bag of potato chips.
In 1961, the Little Utz Girl was redesigned by the Baltimore advertising agency Torrieri-Myers Advertising. At that time the icon’s head became a circle and was inspired by the National Bohemian Beer logo that today is known as “The Natty Bo Guy.”[34] Later iterations of the Utz logo portrayed the “U” in the Utz wordmark doubling as the potato chip bag she reached into. Designers also altered the color of the logo to match the flavor of potato chips or variety of snacks it represented, with the Utz Girl’s hair being one color and her bow, blush, and shirt being another color.
I always thought of the brand as “Yutz.”
I never heard of them before. Kinda surprised I hadn’t, they’re from PA and I grew up in NY. It looks like they’ve really expanded, but since I left.
If they showed a Troll matriarch instead, they could avoid this confusion.
We Pennsylvanians love our snacks.
