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Interesting Vegas factoid:

Las Vegas has very few house basements. Plenty of swimming pools but no basements. That didn’t make any sense to me until someone explained that this area has hard bedrock at about the 5-foot level. Any deeper than that and you need to blast it out.

If I built a house here, I’d dig until I hit bedrock, then set the foundation in that hard rock, create a sunken living room and build up from there. Maybe run some kind of coldwater pipe system to take advantage of the cool ground first, then run the piping thru the walls – or something like that – to save on air-conditioning costs.

Dreaming is still free.