Houston mayor talked like an idiot on National TV, has shut up since. Don't think he knows where the ball is. You get what you vote for.
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Houston mayor talked like an idiot on National TV, has shut up since. Don't think he knows where the ball is. You get what you vote for.
Whatever!
It wouldn't surprise me to see that Mayor get sued or filed on for criminal charges for his 'poopooing' the chance the Governor offered up to pre evacuate...wait until the death and dollar totals tally...Houstonians are going to want to have a good old fashioned lynching!
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I dunno man, I passed a lot of newer subdivisions than mine and they were all water front property now. Not only did my house survive, but my grandfathers too. Somehow we both picked older subdivisions that were planned out well, water still came down but it flowed else where. The same subdivisions I was shopping in for 'better school districts' were under water when we drove out this morning. There was a ton of erosion signs on the creek beds where the water was now lower but still above the banks.Originally Posted by OS OK
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These days, they consider the streets as part of the drainage system. Used to be, houses were just built on the available grade if they had a concrete slab or were built using pier and beam construction. These days, they build subdivisions by bringing in lots of dirt to make the houses higher. This ends up funneling the water into the streets significantly deeper than when the houses were just built on grade or on piers. With the slab on existing grade or with piers, you might have a flood that raises the water level 1 ft over the entire area. If you have a slab on existing grade, you're going to get 1 ft of water in your home. If you have a house built using pier and beam construction, you might have 1 ft of water *under* your house. These days, with all the dirt that gets brought in, that 1 ft of flooding might turn into 4 ft of flooding in the streets because the streets now need to hold all the water that used to be on your property, but within a smaller area. They're getting somewhat better in that they are requiring the developers to set aside space for retention ponds, but I doubt that they hold as much water as the dirt that they brought in to raise the lots. If they do it right, then you end up with streets that flood, but you can still park your car high enough to not flood it. As we've seen lately, that's not always the case.
I talked with Dragonheart today by e-mail, he's in Katy Texas adjacent to the Addicks dam area. So far he is on high ground with the flooded streets up into the yards but neighbors a couple streets over are not so lucky, they are lower and have water in their homes.
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I've never been to Texas.
I envision it to be all flatlands.
About water level.
Am I correct????
Davis Mountains
East Texas
Texas Hill Country
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Definitely not. For one it's a huge state. There are many different areas w/ varying terrain and climates. Some parts are foster but the whole state is not.
We were just in Texas a little less than 6 weeks ago. Son performed with a drum & bugle corp in the Alamodome in San Antonio and in Dallas (didn't see that show). Stayed in camp grounds in Van Horn, Kerrville, outskirts of San Antonio and in Davy Crockett Forest.
Hard not to love Texas.
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms *shall not be infringed*.
"The greatest danger to American freedom is a government that ignores the Constitution."
- Thomas Jefferson
"While the people have property, arms in their hands, and only a spark of noble spirit, the most corrupt Congress must be mad to form any project of tyranny."
- Rev. Nicholas Collin, Fayetteville Gazette (N.C.), October 12, 1789
Does all of Hawaii look like this:
There's a lot of various topology, but in the Gulf Coast area and eastern parts of the state, we pretty much have an average elevation rise of 1 ft per mile.
On the other hand, we also have areas like this:
But there's also a lot of the state that is as flat as this:
Looks like beautiful country.
All the movies and TV shows I've seen show only desert and flat lands.
Person could get lost in those hills.
Yeah, you get away from the big cities and it's a pretty nice place. If you stay in the cities, you are stuck with concrete -- a LOT of concrete.
Just remember, those movies and TV shows are often filmed in California, so they might not exactly match the terrain that we have here.
But there are a few desert like areas out west. We tend to not live there though.
Houston flood preparation:
BLUE BONNETS !
I wonder if there's a Texican alive today whose Mother didn't place him in a field of Blue Bonnets and take his picture?
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That would have been before fire ants arrived in Texas.BLUE BONNETS !
I wonder if there's a Texican alive today whose Mother didn't place him in a field of Blue Bonnets and take his picture?
Now would be a good time to take revenge on the fire ants...they are floating in 'islands, rafts of ants...kill them all, Queens and larva included with one swift blow of a propane torch!That would have been before fire ants arrived in Texas.
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Nawh, there's plenty of areas where we didn't get flooded.
We drove to Houston today. About 120 miles to downtown. Had an doctor appointment scheduled.
I was expecting to see devastation from the flooding. Expected to see water everywhere.
I was very surprised.
It looked like pretty much like normal Houston, except the lack of traffic.
The water is gone, for the most part, but talking to the doctor and nurses that live there, we could tell how bad it had been for those that live near the Medical Center.
We are on a hill and had no damage, just inconvience.
We were very lucky.
Well, the Med Center area has flooded for as long as I can remember and that was even from just *normal* rains. Too much trouble to fix a bad design, so they just keep making the same mistake over and over again.
The doctor said he lives in Bel Air, where ever that is, had about a foot of water in his house. Second time for him.
Said he had enough, he is selling his house and moving elsewhere.
Excellent doctor. Hate to lose him, but I can't blame him.
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