I am so upset, they just started clearing the forest behind my

[Fla Dem]

home to start construction of a Walgreens'. Our neighborhood has been fighting the construction for 2 year, in the courts and with the county. But the county issued the building permits last week. I am so sad to see the trees and the wildlife go. But, what the heck, it's progress and you can't stop progress. :shrug:

These are all my emotions right now:

:mad: :grr: :cry:

[bertha katzenengel]

1. I'm sorry, Fla Dem.

Misery loves company - you've come to the right place. Where once there was forest, they're putting in nearly 300 new houses behind mine.

Where will our deer go? Our birds and chipmunks? Our insects?

I'm with you: :mad: :grr: :cry:

I'm very sorry about your woods.

[WillParkinson]

3. Who the hell cares where the animals will go!

After all, this land is our land and we have the right to develop it as we see fit. If the animals can't live with 1/10 the space they used to live in well that's just too darn bad.

Believe me, I feel for you. So much area that used to be beautiful is just going....going....gone.

[Sequoia]

2. That's really sad.

They'll have that store for a few years and then go somewhere else. Tax reasons ya know....progress. No more song birds, just buzz saws.

[philosophie_en_rose]

4. I'm so sorry. Same thing happened to my parents.

I went to college. Walmart bought a lot two miles from my parents house --> ON BALD EAGLE NESTING GROUNDS! --> stupid local government did NOTHING.

and now we're stuck with the eyesore.

[purr]

5. We got a walmart going to be built 3 min from my house..

Theres one every 2 miles here. Yes.. every 2 miles. Its a damn shame that all the land, forests, and farms are being sold. Its really sad :(

[LynneSin]

6. True Story

My childhood home was a development built on the side of a small mountain. We all had small backyards but where we lived went beyond where the street above us extended. So my playground growing up wasn't the small backyards but the woods behind our house. My mother had defined the limits. There was a ditch in the woods that separated the upper from lower street (here's a fact - I was the lower street, DUer Felonious Thunk grewup in the same neighborhood but the upper street). And I could as far as the woods extended to either end (to the left was a street that connected the lower to the upper street and to the right was a large property that ended the woods). It was a vast playground that had monkey vines and self-created forts. And if there was ever any problem I was within shouting/running distance to one of the houses on the lower street (but I was never on their property.

When I was 8-9, we heard a rumor that they were finally going to develop the rest of the upper street out to the end where the lower street ended. This broke my heart because essentially they were going to cut down my playground.

So I did what any budding liberal environmentalist did. One weekend I went through all the woods and destroyed all the markings they had laid out. Those houses never got built. Maybe it was from my sneaky behavoir or maybe it was because of the housing market bust in the 70s. But it sure made me feel good.

Note: Sometime after I started college they finally extended the upper street. They ruined my 'backyard'

[Fla Dem]

7. Yes, so much has been ruined. You can delay it, but not stop it. n/t