Why did Houston flood? | Let's Talk | NPR

Why did Hurricane Harvey cause so much flooding in Houston? Part of the answer lies in how the city was built – but the rest of the story is about a massive, slow-moving hurricane that brought record rainfall to Southeast Texas.

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[nfuzion]

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[Backyardmech]

50+ inches of rain in 2 days would flood anywhere. Houston had the zoning law ideas brought before its city council 3 times and it got kicked out. Most industrial complexes around the city were there before the neighborhoods. I agree more concrete is going down before drainage is considered. That needs to be addressed. Climate change isn’t the the problem in this matter, but massive expansion without due diligence of the impact of water being withheld from soaking into once permeable ground that’s now a parking lot. I live in what was not in any known flood plain in 12’. Been flooded twice in 2 years (I blame a new freeway built next to my subdivision for killing the more permeable soil area, along with engineering SNAFU’s) and both rain events were just nature being a freak and the new development didn’t do any better for it. I don’t want to hinder growth for business and mobility, but I do want some damn research, and some damn accountability from developers when it comes to throwing up “Sodasopas” and everyone floods after they throw down acres of concrete.

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[markw]

52 inches of water in a few days would flood any city

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