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2017-09-06 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Engineers 20 years ago warned of Houston flooding risk

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-09-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 The silver lining in this cloud is that it should be much cheaper to install this fix now that everything will have to be torn up anyway!

Posted by gorb 2017-09-06 01:07|| 2017-09-06 01:07|| Front Page Top

#2 Should have been the LA swampland instead.

Posted by Skidmark 2017-09-06 01:27|| 2017-09-06 01:27|| Front Page Top

#3 Those are what tsunamis are for Skid or a small size asteroid just in the right spot in the Pacific off the coast? A real Noah moment.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-09-06 07:58|| 2017-09-06 07:58|| Front Page Top

#4 Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2017-09-06 15:25|| 2017-09-06 15:25|| Front Page Top

#5 "a massive underground conduit that would more quickly carry water out of the reservoirs and into the Houston Ship Channel"
Hoho haha. You'd have an elevation drop of what, maybe 10 or 12 feet? Plus the Galveston Bay Foundation sued to stop plans that require large flood discharges into the ship channel, because it negatively impacts the estuary.
I say we need more crawfish holes. Did you ever put a water hose down a crawfish hole? You're putting water right back into the water table. Nature's own drains.

Posted by ed in texas 2017-09-06 20:03|| 2017-09-06 20:03|| Front Page Top

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