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Waterlines
August 29th, 2006Paul Christmann has updated his friends with an email message, where he tells us about the renovation of his house. He ends with some observations on waterlines.
But I must relay one last observation I’ve found over the last several months: flood lines on buildings are an absolutely mesmerizing sight while driving. More than once, I’ve nearly hit a curb when I get distracted by the water marks on a building. Its not just the heights, its the unbelievable straight-ness of the line. You can follow a road that gently moves up and down; the line is straight. You can look at older buildings that lean; the line is straight. That’s often one of the first things people do: try to clean the line. Its not easy. Trust me. In fact, I don’t think its ever actually removable. We’ll have to repaint over it. But I’d like to find a way to leave it somewhere on the house. Of course, Noel won’t have any of that. but we’ll see.
I can imagine an unpainted circle, with a frame around it, on a home that wanted to remember the water level, or if that is too unsightly, to afix some molding along a yard of the waterline, and paint over it.
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There’s a house on Magazine that has a picture frame hung around their search and rescue X.
The Dutch put a brass plaque with the date at the waterline level after a major flood.
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