IS IT A PROBLEM THAT WILL BE ADDRESSED IN OUR TIME?
Here are some photos I took of the flooding around Houston Tuesday. It appears depsite all the work done on the drainage system we will still have widespread flooding in the city. Realistic or not - what do you propose the city do about it? The Insite would like to hear your opinion on this issue!
Our Kenyan-born Big Brother should simply order all new cars to be amphibian hybrids, manufactured by Government Motors (GM), or, if you have a CHICOM-built bicycle you must were an inflatable vest along with a helmet.
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Oh, that was helpful. If we wait until August maybe we can blame the President for the heat.
ReplyDeleteThough it would not completely fix flooding in Houston, one thing that could help is take back the city a little from the powerful developers by not allowing them to clear cut so many mature trees all in the name of "it's cheaper to clear cut". Houston is flat and prone to tropical rainstorms, therefor it is prone to flood. Trees soak up the water.
ReplyDeleteIt breaks my heart to see a mature area of tall pines on the northside fall to a strip center and grocery store, and have no trees incorporated into the design.
Houston has always, and will continue to flood. But just irresponsibly broadly pouring concrete with no regard for the consequences is going to only make things worse. God placed the amount and types of trees here FOR A REASON and no amount of retention ponds is going to do the job of natural trees in this region.
Ok Anonymous,
ReplyDeleteThe problem, as I see it, and I have appraised several properties over the years in the vicinity, is that there are two unresolved issues.
The first being the fact that the politicians decided not to touch Buffalo Bayou as it would have enraged the wealthy living along the Bayou.
Thus the types of detention projects you see along White Oak Bayou were not planned. The only one I can think of is by Gessner Road. Since the Buffalo Bayou remains little disturbed, the HCFCD can not improve the flow.
The second problem is that the debris that accumulates, which is what typically is clogging the storm water system, never seems to be cleared as scheduled, so that when these sudden dowwnpours occur the depressed areas fill even though the pumps may be operational.
Royko