[GH85Carrera]

Howdy all.

Hump day again. We did get some rain last night, just over two inches, whoo hooo. Maybe more today.

Talking to a client that is a consultant for cities with flood control was interesting. Evey city has old paper maps that are inherently limited in accuracy. They are old so don't show new development and they were done at a low accuracy to save money. Some cities that had flooding in areas hired accurate serial surveys and the residents were up in arms because their houses were suddenly in the flood plain and their insurance rates went way up. The meant the city needed to spend millions to improve drainage and they don't have the money to pay for that so they just kill the high resolution accurate surveys and go beck to sticking their heads in the sand waiting for the floods that will come. Then they get FEMA to come pay for the damage and get some federal grant money. That is the definition of politics. Kick the problem down the road and let the feds thrown money at it, even if it will cost orders of magnitude more to recover from a disaster, the politicians just call it an act of god.