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glatt · 08-30-2017, 01:08 PM

I can't find any pictures of that particular neighborhood being flooded, but this is the airport right next to it and it looks like maybe 3 feet of water yesterday. They are the same elevation.

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An airport in a reservoir isn't as egregious to me as a residential neighborhood. Nobody lives at an airport. It's mostly just land.

glatt · 08-30-2017, 01:19 PM

One frustrating thing for me is that in the vast majority of pictures by the media, they don't identify the location. I get the feeling we just keep seeing the same highway by the river shown over and over again. There is no sense of the scope of this thing from the media coverage. With the rain gone, I'd expect aerial photos of the city showing how far the water stretches.

glatt · 08-30-2017, 01:30 PM

Good article on the stupid reservoir situation.
https://www.texastribune.org/2017/08...nt-going-fail/

Flint · 08-30-2017, 03:50 PM

I've had family that lived in Houston (in the past, not currently) who've joked, "Yeah, there's no real city planning here*, they just kept plopping down new construction, willy-nilly, wherever they felt like it."

In the past, we've understood that to mean when it rains heavily, just a normal heavy rain, the streets will flood, in many places high enough that people think they can drive through it, but they can't, and get washed out, car totaled, and have to be rescued. That's a common thing we just live with.

When more, and worse storms keep hitting, it becomes more than an inconvenience.

We've had multiple "hundred year storms" in the last few years, and now this "500" or even "1,000 year" storm, is being treated like an unprecedented anomaly. It's most likely not. Keep your eyes on the skies. And the thermometers. Every year for many years running has been the "hottest year on record" and there have been no breaks in this pattern.

Don't trust the scientists? Stick your head out the window (and pull it out of the sand).

...

* In other words, a market-based, regulation-free Libertarian utopia.

Griff · 08-30-2017, 06:01 PM

NPR is reporting some peroxide? producing plant is getting ready to blow. No power to keep it cool. Now is a good time to talk about regulation. I've been pretty anti-reg in the past but I was assuming common sense and common decency. That was a mistake.

08-30-2017, 01:08 PM	#1
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	I can't find any pictures of that particular neighborhood being flooded, but this is the airport right next to it and it looks like maybe 3 feet of water yesterday. They are the same elevation. An airport in a reservoir isn't as egregious to me as a residential neighborhood. Nobody lives at an airport. It's mostly just land.

08-30-2017, 03:50 PM	#4
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	I've had family that lived in Houston (in the past, not currently) who've joked, "Yeah, there's no real city planning here, they just kept plopping down new construction, willy-nilly, wherever they felt like it." In the past, we've understood that to mean when it rains heavily, just a normal heavy rain, the streets will flood, in many places high enough that people think they can drive through it, but they can't, and get washed out, car totaled, and have to be rescued. That's a common thing we just live with. When more, and worse storms keep hitting, it becomes more than an inconvenience. We've had multiple "hundred year storms" in the last few years, and now this "500" or even "1,000 year" storm, is being treated like an unprecedented anomaly. It's most likely not. Keep your eyes on the skies. And the thermometers. Every year for many years running has been the "hottest year on record" and there have been no breaks in this pattern. Don't trust the scientists? Stick your head out the window (and pull it out of the sand). ... In other words, a market-based, regulation-free Libertarian utopia. __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio** Last edited by Flint; 08-30-2017 at 03:59 PM.

08-30-2017, 06:01 PM	#5
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	NPR is reporting some peroxide? producing plant is getting ready to blow. No power to keep it cool. Now is a good time to talk about regulation. I've been pretty anti-reg in the past but I was assuming common sense and common decency. That was a mistake. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

08-30-2017, 01:19 PM	#2
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	One frustrating thing for me is that in the vast majority of pictures by the media, they don't identify the location. I get the feeling we just keep seeing the same highway by the river shown over and over again. There is no sense of the scope of this thing from the media coverage. With the rain gone, I'd expect aerial photos of the city showing how far the water stretches.

08-30-2017, 01:30 PM	#3
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Good article on the stupid reservoir situation. https://www.texastribune.org/2017/08...nt-going-fail/

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