Lmao @ bob explaining the 1st amendment. Double lmao to him responding in a serious manner to an obviously sarcastic post. This is priceless.
FL Professor Suggests Texas Deserved Harvey for Supporting Trump
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Lmao @ bob explaining the 1st amendment. Double lmao to him responding in a serious manner to an obviously sarcastic post. This is priceless.
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That's not true with this much rain. Rivers overtopping their banks by 20 feet isn't getting mitigated by ponds.
How do you propose planning for a 1000 year event? Are there any city planners around that were alive in 1017? Houston doesn't have a history of being flood prone. No amount of retention ponds would have done anything significant. The two major reservoirs in Houston rose 35'. They cover thousands of acres. A couple hundred more five deep acre retention pond wouldn't have done shit here. 52" of rain in four days, that's normally what they get in an entire year.
The storm hits, and in 24 hours, not only does the left prove they can be just as crude as the worst of the right they complain about, but sites like PolitiFact and others have been downing meme after meme as 'Pants on Fire.'
I wouldn't have canned this guy, but in the current educational climate where the enrollments are down, it wasn't surprising that he 'floated to the top of the list' in the downsizing.
I wouldn't have canned this guy, but in the current educational climate where the enrollments are down, it wasn't surprising that he 'floated to the top of the list' in the downsizing.
I think it doesn't protect you from somebody punching you for what you said. You just get the chance to get them prosecuted for battery
Probably not but it may help reducing the number of days they are under water every year: 4-5 days flooded per year
https://weather.com/storms/severe/news/houston-flood-history-april2016
I agree. It's purpose is to protect citizens from the government. Like public universities obstructing and/or not allowing people to speak on their campus.
JFC, it's called engineering, Boob. We have sophisticated enough technology to simulate what would happen. You don't need to rely on cave drawings from 1017 to extrapolate what would be needed to prepare for current events.
Also, I didn't realize you were such an expert on Houston. Built on bayous, Houston has battled flooding - some of it very extreme - since its founding. I travel to Houston somewhat regularly for work and the slightest bit of rainfall (by Florida standards) creates massive problems. In fact, I flew into Hobby last year after the Memorial Day floods and it was awful. Here's a little light reading to get you acquainted with Houston and its long history of flooding issues:
https://www.hcfcd.org/flooding-floodplains/harris-countys-flooding-history/
https://weather.com/storms/severe/news/houston-flood-history-may2015-allison
You don't design and build shit for something that may happen once every 1000 years. It's cost prohibitive and everything would be inordinately expensive.
Did you notice that in my post I never advocated for that? My post was designed to answer Bob's question and to clarify Houston's storied history with flooding.
Congrats, you're arguing against stuff I never said. You're really smart though.
Yes, we do (I do). In Miami we had to install electrical equipment 16 ft above sea level
If that's the case, it's the exception to the rule and considering Miami is barely 6 feet above sea level, it's probably a good idea. Shithole Miami is very flood prone and probably needs it. That place gets flooded if it gets 2" of water in a short period and they've never been able to figure out and install a decent pumping/drainage system. If Miami got 1/4 of what Texas did, that place would be completely under water.
You can't plan so it doesn't affect you but you can plan so it does f*ing kill you. Sometimes the 100-yr flood elevation is 1 ft above grade and it isn't a big deal. Sometimes it is 6ft or more above grade and you 1) don't live there, or 2) live there and get good insurance including for flood events - with option 2 you should know that any storm means you better get the hell out and come back later.
I can understand the "we never flooded before" crew staying but I don't get the "I just finished rebuilding after the 2015 (or 2016) flood" not evacuating when they said 40+ inches of rain
after the tsunami in japan a few years ago, they found some stones up in the hills that apparently indicated where some had flooded up to a couple hundred years ago. you simply cant engineer your way out of a 100 year event.
And this wasn't even a 100 year event. It was a 500 or 1000 year. It would be way to costly and just plain stupid the plan for a flood that may happen again in 500 or 1000 years. Very few buildings or infrastructure would be around that long.
Sure.
BTW, ponds do not eliminate floods but help reduce the damage. See link to flood maps for Orlando
http://www.cityoforlando.net/gis/f-e-m-a-flood-zone-maps/
BTW, Irma is looking for the Cubans in Miami that gave the state to Trump**
