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Originally Posted by KC911
One other tidbit on the news....Houston area has lost/developed half of their wetlands over the past few decades....just like 'Nawlins....those are Mother Nature's way of absorbing events like this, and when they're gone, the damaged is magnified. I would NOT be putting my life at stake based upon historical flood maps, etc. It just ain't worth it.
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I live near a town that floods often due to the low speed of the water, flat ground, and building a city in a river basin. What used to stand for the flooded areas in a given rain event, now don't seem as bad, while other areas are inundated with water due to all the new shopping center parking lots, built up wetlands, and more roads/infrastructure. They srtill get 3-4' of water on Main Street, but less buildings getting damaged because of the buyouts from the flood fund.
There is no getting rid of the kind of volume of water that the Texas coast is dealing with right now, and all the new construction makes the problem magnafied even further.