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To: i-node who wrote (931242)	4/20/2016 12:20:47 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572758

To tell you the truth I had a "You mean Sylvester Turner is mayor now?" moment the other day. I'm outside the city limits and haven't been paying attention I guess. Houston has a water handling problem and he should be talking about addressing that. Built on swampy ground much of which was once rice and sugar plantations - my old house was on former rice growing land - made much worse by all the construction and paving with asphalt and concrete. A really heavy rain - which they're going to get being so close to the gulf - shuts the city down. Turner has been taking heat for the appearance that upscale areas are getting more in the way of assistance than low income apartment areas. Yesterday a news showed black people walking out of an area of apartments along Greens Road (and thus near Greens Bayou) while the city had trucks and skidoos out in the Meyerland Braes Bayou area. The criticisms might be legit. We had a worse rain period 12-15 years ago. I say that because we're near Cypress Creek and it hasn't been over the bridge near us THIS time but it was back then.