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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (1029536)	9/4/2017 11:51:02 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573898

You need to know more about the geography here. There are places flooding that shouldn't have. Drainage is the problem. Houston is actually almost certainly better designed to move heavy rains fast than the cities you named. Houston's bayous and highways and streets have been designed to move lots of water for decades. The Addicks and Barker reservoirs to protect the Buffalo Bayou area flowing though the middle of Houston were built in the late 30's. They were adequate till the land behind them was developed and that's only been in the last two decades. Now they aren't anymore. The rain guage closest to me shows - in 24 hrs prior to date at 9:55AM: 8/25 0" 8/26 3.8" 8/27 11.3" 8/28 9.3" 8/29 4.6" 8/30 0.5" 8/31-9/4 0" 29.5" over 5 days. I got these numbers from harriscountyfws.org. Water was highest here on the 28th and 29th. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Your beliefs about humidity are nonsense. You can't go past 100% humidity at any given temperature. 100% humidity will bring on rain with any slight change in elevation of the saturated air. And the earth's temperature hasn't changed by that much over the last century. More importantly, here in the continental US, we've had very little if any warming over the past century. In 1989, NOAA admitted there'd been no warming over the previous century in the US: NASA and the UK's CRU agreed as of 1999, the US had had little warming: Whither U.S. Climate? By James Hansen, Reto Ruedy, Jay Glascoe and Makiko Sato — August 1999 Empirical evidence does not lend much support to the notion that climate is headed precipitately toward more extreme heat and drought. in the U.S. there has been little temperature change in the past 50 years, the time of rapidly increasing greenhouse gases — in fact, there was a slight cooling throughout much of the country NASA GISS: Science Briefs: Whither U.S. Climate? --------------------------------- I cannot stress enough the significance of development in west Harris County (aka the Katy Prairie). I used to live in the Meyerland/Westbury areas that have flooded three times over the past 3 years. Flooding wasn't a big concern then. I know people who'd lived there for decades. Never flooded. I remember seeing Braes Bayou filled with water but it didn't go over in the late 90's. Thank God I moved before this started. The flooding problem is the paving of the Katy Prairie which is upstream to Braes, Buffalo Bayous and Cypress Creek. Maybe I should move out of Harris County? Developers are not held responsible for flooding problems they create downstream.