Why Did Houston Flood?
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- Hurricane Harvey's rainfall broke continental U.S. records. Here's how cities like Houston can better prepare.
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Building on a swamp at sea level probably wasn't the best idea of all time.
Steven Bringhurst Truth
when a city like Houston, gets that big, it floods, turns to swamp, the to sewer.
Steven Bringhurst although that is very true, I don’t think anyone in the past thought Houston would become as big and spread out as it is. However, it is all our fault for not building or planning appropriately unfortunately. We have recovered and yet still are recovering in specific areas but it doesn’t excuse the truth that we are on wetlands
Port cities have to operate near the coast... just sayin.
Houston is well above sea level, between 50 and 150 feet above. The water drains quickly once it stops raining. The problem is there are only a handful of creeks and bayous to move all the water out of the city. With all this development not enough is soaking into the ground and it is running off into the creeks and bayous, they overflow and flood neighborhoods. Houston also has a poor drainage system in many parts of the city they has not kept up with development.
Okay I've been a Houston area resident most of my life--to me it's simple we got a historical storm and got over 50" of rain in 4 days!! What more needs to be said.
Hmmm... excellent point BUT .. since it does flood so much, even without massive hurricanes, maybe we could come up with a way to deal with the flooding. Maybe. Houston keeps growing but it could go UP instead of OUT! :-) Look at Hong Kong! I guess cause it's cheaper to build outwards? But is it REALLY cheaper?? People say, we wants a yard ... but the "yards" are like nothing! Postage stamp sized lots with McMansions everywhere! Ugh! Houston is my hometown but I still don't want to live there! When I was a kid, we actually had seasons, but now? It's HOT and WET, or warm and wet! LOL No thanks!!
Stop building on wetlands. Houston is a mistake, destroy that disastor city.
Apperantly We We're Not Ready
The Earth is Flat
haha, was searching for a flat Earth comment, on a globe why will water stall in one place, oh they ll say it is because of the houses around there :D
Laura Mac it is not flat
Why don't you draw me a map of this flat Earth. You know one on which distance and bearing have any relationship what so ever to observed reality. No flattard has ever been able to, you know why? Because you're all fucking morons.
Calm down it was a joke
+Jack Hunter,. it's in the bible,. that must mean the bible is a joke after all.
They have over built which has ruin the natural water shed or drainage . Southeast of gulf gate and 610 which is also pearland ,Pasadena,Missouri, stafford , sugar land, south main from astrodome to south west freeway drains to Gulf of Mexico.all these areas overbuilt since 1968 until present
And the decisions will no be so tough as most of the residents in these flood zones were forced to live there due to high taxes pushing them out of areas that don't typically flood. This will be another opportunity to run out culturally deemed undesirables (who in this case are hard working families that have lived in these communities for generations). Just like in New Orleans lower wards. These people will have no affordable homes or communities to flee too.
So, if this is a wetland area and it has been even before Native Americans arrived from Asia, why do they blame "climate change"? 🤔🤔🤔
Because we got 52" of rain in 4 days....
Andrew Self no you dumbass because the water can’t go anywhere
@@candacechanel2950 No city in the world could sustain fucking 5ft of rain in 5 days fucking dumbass
I fink you got up their nose mifter in the comments.
@@JavierSanchez-dq8ie Mark rivers/bamboo
Houston we have a problem
and it's called; Trump.
Great Cornholio ya cause the almighty trump can control the weather....
hahahahahaha
AwkwardYet cmon man I understand ur way to make light out of the situation but people died not something to joke about
AwkwardYet
Land Developer: "We don't need no stinkin' wetlands!"
Left or Right, all officials are always into making $$ with Real Estate developers
Captain Rorvik You're not serious..we the esrth the coastland need wetlands...
Hello Captain, nature might be smelly, but ignoring it will cause more suffering. The land developer is making a good point that doesn't serve you I guess
Wetlands are just that, wetlands. To change wetlands so that people can build near then is like asking for big trouble because wetlands are places of natural catchments of excess water and when you see them low, that's because of times when there is little rain or enough rain that fills these wetlands and around them. But in time when you cop 50+ inches in a day, those lovely wetlands will fill to a capacity that would stretch for miles across the entire lowland. People and their stupid ideas of building near wetlands, lowlands, swamplands, and those greedy developers and estate agents who couldn't careless about what will happen to these suburbs in case of flash floods, they're always after your money, but they also make sure you're not going to be told that you are buying a parcel of land at the 'bottom of a dry lake'. Then when disaster strikes and the dry lake becomes wet lake again, what will happen to all those suburbs caught in flash storms and floods? There you are. Now you understand. Er.. one moment, did I just says 'now you understand'? LMAO! These natural events of flash storms and floods have been going on for millions of years, yes, but at least humans may have been on earth for half a million or more years, you're telling me from such experience of being flooded is new that you don't know about where to build or don't understand how Nature works. I mean, are you that stupid not to know that never build in lowlands, wetlands and swamplands which are anywhere between sea level and million year old hollow depressions where rivers usually flow and lakes or wetland, or swamplands have formed? I also don't understand why choose a plot of land to build a home by a low lake, near wetland and or swamplands when the risks are higher by the fact that there are snakes, crocs, mosquitoes, risk of heavy rain, flash floods, raising water and sinkholes? When you buy a home, what have you got in your mind? Do you listen to greedy sales agents who tell you enough bullshit to brainwash you to make a purchase? Best places to buy a property or build a home is by undulated hills of less step slopes. Stay away from large, yet very long rivers because when these giants fill from flash floods they will raise really high and you will not be able to escape by road.
Advice from Michael C, who lived in flood prone areas of the great Goulburn River in Shepparton, now lives in Melbourne on an elevated hillside for 17 years and no risk of floods despite having had some serious storms over these years.
Chi-Congo WAS wetlands. Is this REALLY progress?
Take a lesson from Japan. They have one hell of a flood control system in place.
because it got 50" of rain and it's not on a hill, any city would flood under those circumstances
He's right. Dump 50 inches of rain on Denver and see what happens.
777dingo you would be surprise how floods are regular here in Houston
New York City wouldn't flood with 50 inches of rain because all of the rain would go straight into the oceam
J Gio Sanchez 🤦♂️
I hope that was a facepalm emoji...because that is excactly what I felt when I read his comment.
There were a combination of things that contributed to Houston flooding.
Richmond Harrell you must be a fucking genius! Are you on Donald's Trump Gabinete???
Sergio Hernandez if you're gonna be that sarcastic to him why not be as sarcastic to the video makers since they are the ones over simplifying things
Idylchatter Water was nothing new,the (amount) of water was.
It's all good, people of 2101AD won't know what Florida is
Sold home in Katy in April and left TX. It's unbelievable the development in the wetlands... and it's not slowing down.
So they had to elevate homes
so why'd you leave Texas? lol
Not Sure who cares, 👋🏻
What never gets mentioned in any discussion is the composition of local soils. They are known as Vertisols which are self mulching, highly expansive clays. Bone dry, they can absorb up to 1” of water then become impermeable like concrete as the clays expand. That’s why rice is a good crop here... they hold water.
Reasons why:
•Massive Amounts Of Rain
•Near The Coast, Which Means The City Is Low And Easy To Flood
I'm 32 feet above sea level and whoever built my neighborhood here in Webster had a good idea bc we have never flooded.
It's flat, paved, sits on Beaumont clay.......oh, and they got 52"+ of rain in just a couple of days.
From Ontario Canada, I hope Houston survives. I wish I could help.
do worry we are
Houston will survive! Houstonians are not quitters! :-) But thanks! I live in Alaska now, and have been crying today, watching drone footage. It will take a long time, but ... well, you can knock a Texan down, but you cannot keep us down!
Matt Brine time for Irma now
Matt Brine Houston water is contaminated th-cam.com/video/yLpQ8ohCO_I/w-d-xo.html
Thanks
I live in Houston and I am blessed that it didn't flood on my street
Nicole Cortez I didn’t get flooded either? What side of town are you from? I’m curious about what areas did not get flooded
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Lost me at climate change. The city has always flooded for my entire 5 generations of family living there in Galveston and Houston. It floods more now due to over expansion. Building in a flood plain etc... but not climate change.
I live here in Houston and we had a major storm some years back that was called Allison Allison had nothing on Harvey he came with a vengeance it's definitely something I would never forget it's going to be a year this month since that. Disaster hit Houston
I say no city, muchless a wetland, swamp, prairie can handle 20 inches of rain in 48hrs...you can have the best drainages, but if it's overwhelmed...not a chance to escape a heavy deluge of rain. You can build retention ponds, water absorbment pavement, and other stormwater reduction runoff, but its just a fraction of reducing a flood and it doesn't help when most of Houston's Freeways are below grade which should of been at or above grade...thank the past city engineers for that...Also Houston is the merging hot zone for rich tropical moisture and Low pressure systems passing through. When you have that combination it means severe weather, and heavy rains...note: Harvey, stalled fronts, and low pressure systems passing by. The biggest role that plays a part of severe weather and flooding is Global Warming...1 degree higher every ten years...CO2 is the culprit, Trees are the way to go, they filter CO2 and replace it with O2...and soak up water to grow...
NOVA . instead of painting a hopeless picture - I propose following solutions:
A) build houses with flood prevention in mind (build in a higher ground (creating higher ground) + waterproof the basements (or no basement at all)
B) create flood dams to protect towns and roads (not a temporarily version plz)
C) dig massive candles to channel water away form city and into rivers.
I am sure we can do better than just look depress every-time that a hurricane is passing by.
Houston already does all of that. A) I have yet to see a basement here, and am more likely to see piered houses in heavy flooding areas. B) The big problem with larger floods is that the overwhelm the flood dam, making the need for a controlled release. I'm talking about major dams too. C)We have what we call bayous. Glorified drainage ditches in town if you ask me. Do a google image search on the Houston bayou system, some are massive. Even with all of that we still flooded, having the dirty side of a hurricane sit over you for days will do that. A city can only build and prepare so much.
Be smart, stop building in flood areas that were originally wetlands. Houston, TX is a mistake.
we have the power and technology to minimize any flood impacts ... why not use it?
FL33T WOOD the same could be said about Mexico City and Venice. Both cities are many hundreds of years old. Never underestimate a people's stubbornness/stupidity when it comes to the place they call home.
Two words: GLOBAL WARMING!
Boot Comrade Trump and his republicon cronies out of Washington!
This a load of CRAP! No area can sustain 40+" of rain and not flood. Also why woould you use weather modification on your own citizens and cause billions of dollars in damages. The Houston-Galveston region has a flood control agency, they have created hundreds of retention ponds and reservoirs all over the area. They also made new businesses and subdivision to build retention ponds to offset the new developements. There are several large bayous to help carry the water to Galveston bay. I live a 1/4 mile from major bayou and thanks to 2 large retention ponds near by the bayou never overtoped. It crested 1 foot below the top. The Houston region is quite large and spread out. When the video mentions the other 2 floods they did not effect the whole region but a small area. My house did not flood and the streets remained clear. You can twist news stories to suit your agenda. If you not live in the area it is hard to understand.
Chris Campbell thank you!
Thanks Chris! True to form, PBS never misses a chance to promote their climate change BS.
i noticed at the end, service announcement paid for by one of the Koch brothers funds. 🤔
"why did Houston flood" um let's see could it be because they got 56" of rain from a hurricane.no that can't be it let's blame someone
to much concrate -no flooding space
There are actually tons of concrete drainage systems...including an unfathomable network of massive drainage tunnels. Literally some of them reach 30ft wide that i have seen. We have multiple direct drains straight to the coast. (Much faster than the river could provide)
HERES WHAT WILL HAPPEN......EVERYONE WILL TAKE AS MUCH TAX MONEY AS THEY CAN GET, NOTHING WILL BE DONE OTHER THAN SOME REBUILDING AND THEN, IN A FEW YEARS, MORE OF THE SAME......THATS WHAT PEOPLE ALL THE TIME, EVERYWHERE IT FLOODS.
God Bless everyone in Houston 😔😔
I'd say the biggest problem is that all of our bayous converge into one. It's clear since that's the one that's still flooded over a week later as everything drains into it
Build houses in a natural wetland,this is what you get,just sayin'
Building houses by a fault line is stupid too(California). Building in a city that's going to be underwater(New York)Is stupid. Building houses un tornado Alley is stupid. Just shut up bro. Houston is strong
I used to live in Sandalwood/Lakeview for just over 16 years from 1963 to 1979. If I had a dollar for every time Buffalo Bayou and Hibury Street flooded, I'd be a multi-millionaire. I understand many Sandalwood homes had water coming to within inches of their front and back doors!!!
Same with the Gessner / Briar Forest homes. Had to ditch a car on more than one occasion around there,
Why government allowed to destroy wetlands ?
majid Ashif - $$$
Because people needed the space and living in a swamp would suck. Washington, DC is built on what use to be swamps. Just need proper drainage and less 4 feet of rain.
Everything's boils down to capitalism 🙄
majid Ashif - I would say it's more corruption than capitalism. True capitalism has checks built into it. But when the government has all the power and takes bribes to look the other way, that's just plain old corruption. It happens in all forms of government and economic framework.
Murica
What would we do without tragic twinkly piano music to inspire our sympathies and emotion.
Unprecedented? What about tropical storm Allison in 2001? Very similar to Harvey, but much more widespread damage, and a lot more people drowned in the Houston area (21 if I remember correctly - with Harvey I don't believe there were any drownings in the Houston area). Also Harvey was much more hit and miss, affecting pockets of neighborhoods, a lot of Houston area only had flooding in the streets with none in homes. A lot of the flooding with Harvey in homes only occurred after they opened the dam to release the water from the reservoir. Allison was much more widespread. As usual, too much propaganda passed off as news.
Yeah, most of the flooding was street and partial yard level. It’s unfortunate, but the water had to be released from the damns to avoid failure. I remember watching the guy making the announcement. He was very somber and said that his house would be one of the ones flooded by the release procedure.
“Hey Patrick what am I now?” Uh the Atlantic Ocean? “ “no I’m Texas” “what’s the difference?
please show this to Mr. TRUMP for whom America is first, Mother Nature last...
Nahe M Trump and his supporters don't believe in science, so they will call it fake news and move on.
Narata
Hahaha! Yea, that's it exactly.
Man vs Nature
Nature will alaways win
We go from Houston to climate change right st 1:38 Propagandaaaaaa
i know alot of people will say, blah blah blah fuckin blah... do not live in a possible flood area period!!
Climate never stops changing..
Sorry not buying it.I think your science has been corrupted by the left.Much like they have corrupted journalism.Science is heading for the same fate.I think you and our scientists are very narcissistic in thinking our species can change..one way or another our climate.Our planet is way way more resilient than you think and can handle anything the likes of man can do.
The problem isn't that the climate is changing. The problem is that it's changing at an exponential rate so dramatic that most life on Earth won't be able to evolve or adapt quick enough to survive. Again and agian, the evidence points directly at humans add the cause. The little bit of CO2 we have been adding to the atmosphere is tipping the scale, throwing the environment off balance, and we just keep adding more. There will be a mass extinction if we continue at this rate of imbalance. And we can't just one day decide to change once it gets too hot. There is about a 100 year lag. What we do today won't take any effect until 100 years from now, this is why we have to take action now.
Dude, the idea that practically all the experts from around the world have been conspiring together and fabricating evidence in order to gain money doesn't make sense. There is a lot (and I mean a lot) more money in producing evidence against the climate change theory [or the theory of evolution]. Why would these highly intelligent individuals and groups choose to lie for less money? What is the motive?
Honestly, it makes perfect sense...
Option #1 - There ~is~ climate change -
"Yes, Sir, we've found evidence of climate change, and we'll need more money to study it..
What's that, you ask? Why yes, yes we just need to do this, this, and this...
And yes, I just happen to have a company alllll ready to go...to ~help~ you get this solved...
I'll get that contract all written up for you, just sign here, and I'll need a check...
Option #2 - There ~isn't~ climate change -
"No sir....There's really nothing we need to do, because we really aren't noting any substantial changes... Climate changed long before we ever got here, and will keep changing long after we're all gone....
What's that? You mean I'm done? You don't need me any more?? But I have a family to feed...
I neeeeed your money..... Wait! wait! I was wrong! There IS climate change!! And you need me!!
Noooooooo!!!! I'm meltingggggggggg......
So yeah.... There's a reason that you can get people to say there's climate change, and they'll be happy to tell you they know how to fix it for you.... (please see Al Gore)
They simply don't make any money if there isn't.... Just sayin'....
Please explain the Ice Age.... Please explain the Great Flood of 1900... Please explain the Great storm off the Florida coast of 1715, when all the Spanish ships were lost... Climate has been changing long before we got here, and will change long after we're all just dust... Climate has been changing for, quite literally, billions of years...
It is so sad 😣 I am Praying for all that lost there homes from to storm, or had to live everything they know behind, I hope everyone is ok. PRAY for the people of Huston Texas
Is ok I’m from Houston and it flooded 2 feet and it did not come in (from north Houston)
We have an outstanding drainage systems in Houston, it's simply the sheer amount of water dropped rapidly that caused the flooding.
Houston floods when I pee too hard. Its the drainage system. My brothers street looked like a bomb hit it. While mine was perfect and he lives five minutes away.
Simple ... Horrific zoning allowed by your corrupt politicians. The rich got the higher ground ... Hmmmmm
The FPV Life are you fucking stupid
We are all puling together to do what we can, from where we can, how ever we can. it's beautiful! Don't forget to laugh!
Houston needs to return the land to its natural state -- that's the only way to stop flooding in the future.
Thanks trump.
Last time I checked Trump can't control the weather
+Jack Hunter, the last time i checked Trump couldn't control anything,...
Great Cornholio
😂 damm
Obama built that...right?
What would an updated video say about Imelda?
i sent flowers to houston but you said you didnt need em ....lol
420jerrett lol what
Lalaforreal Forrealforreal it's a reference to rae sremmerds song "black beatles" I'm the beginning it says " sent flowers but you said you didn't need em"
Logan Garcia I forgot that lyric. Remember now.
Clay .C. Tf are you talking about
I once told a co-worker of mine that if New Orleans had gone through this, most of their city would be gone as they are below sea level. Kinda gives you a little perspective, doesn't it?
The problem is the type of people in office and the people that vote for them. Texans aren't big believers in climate change or green solutions. Maybe this will help change their attitudes.
literally all they say is " its always flooded here". i mean they have a fucking sea in their backyard... HOW does that not tell you something is wrong.
I think its too blame facility in Alaska for the future of the tehas
It was a geoengineered hurricane. Check out YT vid "weatherwar 101". All info there.
Oh horse manure!
Geo-Engineering may have been done to help lessen the hurricane
Gerry the moron is a moron. Got your Super Male Vitality at hand Gerry?
Jack Knight, Gerry thinks the NWO, or the Jews, or the Illuminati, or the Bilderbergs (hard to say which) have a secret weather machine they will kill us all with. He's a fucking loon!
Frank Kelley Shut your white ass up broke boy
Watching this in preparation for hurricane Florence. My city is where it's supposed to make landfall as a cat4 this week. 😕 our city was flooded out like this from Hurricane Matthew (but wasn't on the news like this) so we are very concerned.
Keep in mind... Houston is 105 foot above sea level...not 1 or 2 feet. Over 4ft of rainfall in a few days...im sorry unless you live on a mountain side or the top of a rolling hill .. youre gonna flood. I live in Houston, i work in chemical plants in Pasadena, when ever river breaches its banks... due to northern rainfall on top of what we had..there is no chance.
It's probably due to the recent and ongoing Solar flares. Here in Melbourne, Australia, It's still very cold and wet, unusual in September which it has always been sunny in Spring and temperatures of 25-26C. But this year we've had too many solar flares. I design homes in flood prone areas. It's my invention, so I cannot expose the design here for someone else to take the credit.
Spring 2024: PHYS-1415-W02-Physical Science I, Hopefully we will be ready for the next big storm.
to people who say " i send thoughts and prayers" NO STOP IT!
sending something that would actually help like clothing, supplies, food. first aid equipment, volunteering yourself to help rebuild the town. only people who pretend to care and really, but JUUUST dont care enough to do anything about it,
send thoughts are prayers, its empty. meaningless.
you are only saying "sending thoughts and prayers" to make yourself feel better. about not lifting a finger to actually help. who are you trying to fool?
From Houston, as much as I’d like to think things will change here, they won’t. We have to many corrupt politicians in local office. Our city funding has never taken infrastructure seriously, ever. It’s like watching a rat race, instead of maintaining roads we already have they build 42 more. Take it a step further. Major boulevards and sections of the city flood in normal day to day rainstorms. Years and years, there have never been legitimate plans placed for action to prevent or maintain flooding. I love living here, for the culture, economy, shopping and diversity, however the political procrastination really kills me, and let’s face it our city.
When you dump megatons of steam into a storm system you create massive flooding. Thats why all the Cooling towers at every single power plant and chemical plant were going full blast as the storm passed over. They seeded it with hot water.
So much money is going into the defense budget that there simply isn't enough for infrastructure. And even the defense budget is completely paid for by increasing the national debt.
If anybody watches this and thinks that Electromagnetic Machines & or Equipment & Man made Water Vapor Generation wasn't the MAIN FACTOR as to why this crazy weather we see ALL AROUND THE WORLD !! Need to do some serious Research !!
Please remember get an ELECTRICIAN too DISCONNECT your household POWER from the grid before attempting any cleanup at home after the flooding. Here are some tips too help in the last video you will need to measure and trim down the drywall sheet before installation remember its always easier to cutout a bit larger then too small. Triple check your measurements for accuracy.
1.www.popularmechanics.com/adventure/outdoors/tips/a8231/4-rules-for-electrical-safety-after-a-flood-14261065/ Electrical safety after flooding.
2.th-cam.com/video/W2oLM5yZM5w/w-d-xo.html Drywall removal flooding.
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Thank god it said climate change instead of global warming lol.
Build a huge manmade canal in the middle of Texas size of the Empire state building that wide may be it will flood no more the water got to go somewhere have it going straight out to the ocean
Well. Living here in north Houston my whole life. The lakes around here are not flood control devices. They are pleasure lakes and can only take a few feet of water. Houston was maintaining until addicks reservoir and lake Conroe went full open on food gates. Upon this happening it flooded the downstream areas badly. Same thing happened years prior yet no one wants to or can go after the SJRA or army corps for gross negligence. Best part of Houston is the people. Neighbors and family with boats and big trucks trying to save people. No one sees color or religion in times like these.
Can't believe it's coming on 6 years. I grew up in Houston and even tho the drainage is good, the city is flat as a pancake and covered in concrete. When you get that much rain in such a short time, there's little to be done. I owned 3 different homes there from the late 70s into the 90s and always carried flood insurance, even tho it wasn't required. A decent rainfall and streets are always under water. The worst thing about living in a flat place is how long it takes the water to subside. On the upside: there isn't a city in the country that could come together and rebuild as fast as Houston!! The "can do" Texas spirit lives on there.
I'd give anything to go back and experience my house being flooded in Harvey again. Cause my wife would still be with me. Just lost her in December. Harvey flooding our house was nothing compared to losing my wife.
"and restoring prairies and wetlands" BUT MUH DEVELOPMENT!!! AMERICAN NEEDS MORE STRIP MALLS Riiiiiiiight
This was predicted by Prophet Sadhu Sundar Selvaraj, from God, well in advance. Along with the destruction of cal. from earthquake . Turn to Christ.
Flooding-prone areas should have building codes adjusted radically. Traditional single-family wood houses should be gradually replaced by high-rise concrete multi-family buildings in Houston. Before that, from a tech point of view, land/marine double-use cars can be manufactured much easier than the automated cars, and aluminum-based building materials (columns, sheets, spongy filling) can be used in place of wood-based materials to build water-proof 1st floor of single houses in areas prone to flooding.
we moved from Houston in '77 - there was talk of Houston's SINKING then. Well, guess what. It sank.,,Now it's a really large frog pond.
The flood was caused by a combination of natural weather patterns that were intensified by humans tipping the scale. Humans ARE expediting climate change(natural occurring event). Also it doesn't help to that humans are destroying nature's natural barriers that would've helped to prevent a disaster like this. The Houston floodplains are 75 percent smaller thanks to human development. This flood shouldn't have been this bad.
Duh! Four and a quarter feet of rain across a flat, 10,000 square mile area (metropolitan area of Houston), will flood every time. There is NOTHING you can do to alleviate the destructive power of trillions and trillions of gallons of water.
You are kidding me ..... Massive amounts of rain make the ground flood ? Damn you learn something every day.... That was sarcasm by the way.
I'm curious...does Houston have a sophisticated drainage system like Mexico City? Take a look at videos like TEO on you tube. We might need to improve what we already have...
There are alot of blames to go around for the floodings. Houston has suffered 3 major floodings in the last 3 years. Climate change is here to stay. Houston will continue to grow, and have more development. The question is how we can minimize the flood damages with all the given conditions: a better infrastructure planning (zoning and updated building code based on scientific knowledge, retention pond capacity requirements for new developments, better bayou run-off planning for current residential areas, etc.) can be a very important factor to minimize human misery and losses to property when (not if) the next flood comes. Asking the tough questions, and searching for answers now, will go a long way for many of us to be more prepared and better equiped for face the future.
It rained 52 inches in two days here. Thats why. This report brought to you by people who live in New York. Painful.
Imagine what would happen if this were hill country? Instead of softly flowing standing water, there would be torrential flash floods that can knock down whole houses and drown hundreds of people within minutes. Developers have pushed and pushed to force beautiful rural areas into cities swelling and swollen with taxes for more and more "amenities" when these cities are sitting ducks for dangerous troubles. We all owned land, 200 years ago. We could grow our own foods and have our own small businesses. We could today have that plus our cars and modern conveniences were we not subject to the relentless taxation and regulation of property. We have bought city homes in areas that looked so beautiful and safe, only to find that we are prone to electrical black outs, raw sewage spills, and other problems of contaminated water from floods, etc. Crime and traffic jams all await us in the cities. Why not stop the forced annexation of rural areas and leave the homeowners there to themselves with their large lots and safe water wells, and septic tanks. If people want to live in the cities with all the risks, so be it... but stop forcing people into higher taxes and cities with forced annexation. Let the rural areas protectively surround the cities with their abundance of grasses and soil and farms and ranches. Stop treating people like they were animals needing to be contained in tight little human containment centers.... cities. And we need to pray for those people who believe humans are animals needing to be contained and curtailed.
YEAH...!! Then Houston would've had only 19ft. of Water instead of 20ft.
Good Thinkin..👍👍👍
Because our mayor has no clue how to prepare our city... they keep building freeways in low areas and buildings where water has to run. They just make money dont care about our city.
Are we going to prepare for the next thousand year flood or will we need another one to prove that such a thing is possible?
I've seen two one-hundred year and one five-hundred year and now my first thousand year flood in the twenty-two years I've lived here in Houston. I know, the Corps of Engineers will raise the level of the Addicks/Barker dams.
0:43 ummmm.. Thats a pic of Florida if im not mistaken. Katrina hit Louisiana.. EVERYONE should know that. I was in harvey.
Concerns over who used what bathroom are mute now. God is in control. Now we have something to be concerned about. Give God praise and glorify His name. Thank you Lord Jesus and please forgive us.
It's really just a geometry problem. And we should just be honest - it isn't solvable. The issue can be seen clearly by looking at just two facts: 1. Water only goes down hill. And that means towards the coast. 2. As you get nearer to the coast, there is logarithmically less land. That is - there is more land draining than there is land to drain into, and by an exponential scale. So, because of the geometry of the land itself, and the geometry of the elevation gradient, all water is focused at a point on a thin line: the coastline. Nothing can change this. Even if the whole region was prairie and woodland, the ground, which is always saturated in late summer, would refuse to take up more water and would mail it all coastward. The only solution is not to live on a coastal flood plane.
'greenfield' spaces, 'bio-swales', etc won't do dick when the ground is saturated, and that cannot help but happen when a lot of rain comes. Seems to me that the solution would be wide shallow concrete channels strategically placed to quickly evacuate waters with less resistance than going through people's houses on their quest for sea-level. Unfortunately for the 'eco-fundys' or whatever they are called, the engineering problem of keeping people safe and dry does not align well with their pre-determined solutions.
Solution to these problems are clear, unless you think prayer will solve it. Solution is clear as in it is the case for Louisiana, just got to move away - relocation. Don't build any new houses and apartment which have been damaged, let nature reclaim it. Those areas will flood in about half century by sea anyway. You don't have to take climate change seriously, but fact is it is coming to get to your home with next storm or your children have to face them. All these ideas that to build roads that soak water to soil is, in large, useless and pointless. Even raised houses would be ridiculous as well in few decades.
1:17 that’s the pre school I went to as a kid. Noah’s Ark Preschool.
I guess not mentioning Addicks res wasn’t important in this vid? My moms place in memorial went from 2” to over 6’ when they released that res. Dumb video
Developing infrastructure on a known flood plain was grossly irresponsible to begin with. The damage to households here is immeasurable! Texas is a big wide open state, why does everyone want to live at the conference of multiple waterways?
I think if we redesigned our infrastructure and fixed how the water runs off,,fix the piping so that it runs off in another area of the river or wherever,,, reroute where the water runs off,,,, and maybe if they cleaned their drains of trash from time to time,,it wouldn't get clogged and so backed up.....they don't cover those drain openings with a filter or screen like covering to catch the trash and other debris.....this is from years of sewage back up,,never cleaning it out and improper systems design and put in place..
The world is in trouble there's gigantic social problems, there's weather catastrophe one after another, there are people being killed over religion. There's spiritual wickedness in high places, brothers an sisters call on Jesus and save yourselves and recruit others to be saved. Before you know it the great day will be upon us act now!!!! Before it is too late Jesus says I am the way the truth and the life. No one comes to the father except through me and it is so true!!!!!
It flooded cause the sewer system has never been upgraded in the last 25+ years.... It's been the same for that long blocked passages that's should be open. Pumping stations shut down that's why
Would the drainage system in the video I'm providing the link to be beneficial for flooding in Houston?
The only reason I'm asking is because someone mentioned Houston on that videos comments section.Here is the link:
m.th-cam.com/video/JJu1rBnm5zM/w-d-xo.html
Because its Noahs day. In our day and time. Maybe there was a flood in the past, however, think, it's happening again, in our time!!
Thats it elevate your home. problem solved. Sewer lines water lines power lines all below swamp level no. Ya that it do it and all those 1000's of miles of concrete parking lots and sidewalks, highway lanes have nothing to do with it.
maybe it flooded because 50 plus inches of rain fell pretty quick. I really is pretty simple.