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Experts say the “bayou city” is so vulnerable to floods - not only because it is low-lying - because explosive growth in the metro area has added 25 percent more pavement in the last 15 years, replacing soil-rich wetlands that could absorb water with concrete suburbia.
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A Look At Why Houston Floods | NBC Nightly News

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@Chris-is1rd
@Chris-is1rd 7 жыл бұрын
I feel so bad for those folks. Aside from all the water damage, the smells after it drains away must be horrible
@belindaphillips2779
@belindaphillips2779 6 жыл бұрын
Chris temporary
@keithpurduecroft
@keithpurduecroft 7 жыл бұрын
No drainage, too much concrete.
@davidhough8116
@davidhough8116 7 жыл бұрын
Works in Los Angeles-concrete river beds drain to ocean
@thequake180
@thequake180 7 жыл бұрын
David Hough draining to the ocean doesn't do you much good when the land is below sea level.
@221bakeryny8
@221bakeryny8 7 жыл бұрын
Drainage doesn't do jack when you get 20 inches of rain in 18 houes
@rustyharvey6855
@rustyharvey6855 7 жыл бұрын
Inez Bakken maybe the hurricanes are racist or maybe Republicans have a hurricane button.
@lockedinnn
@lockedinnn 7 жыл бұрын
Rusty Harvey corny
@lacandacethediva754
@lacandacethediva754 7 жыл бұрын
I live in spring,Tx thank god we didn't get hit as bad in my neighborhood pray for Houston Tx we need it 🙏💕
@elli003
@elli003 7 жыл бұрын
The one common denominator for Houston's worst floods is the 'training effect'. C'mon 4 to 5 inch per hour rates will flood just about anything.
@kirkbenson3554
@kirkbenson3554 7 жыл бұрын
The result of greedy development !
@mollygirl8836
@mollygirl8836 7 жыл бұрын
Kirk Benson: True! Houston has essentially been turned into one big deep bowl. Ah...progress.
@RCFourFive
@RCFourFive 7 жыл бұрын
Stupid statement - development is mostly OUTSIDE the city limits.
@harrykuheim6107
@harrykuheim6107 7 жыл бұрын
So you live in a Tent I suppose Comrade ?
@saltcitytutoring8976
@saltcitytutoring8976 7 жыл бұрын
RCFourFive the county can enbact zoning rules.
@TheRibofJESUS
@TheRibofJESUS 7 жыл бұрын
I guess it pays off to live in a city with only a population of about 110,000 after all.
@RollingOrmond
@RollingOrmond 7 жыл бұрын
Me too! Las Cruces, NM.
@Andreas4696
@Andreas4696 7 жыл бұрын
I live in a town. 2500 people spread over 1000 square kilometers.
@sammas8103
@sammas8103 7 жыл бұрын
LegendMeadow must be great, you eventually get to meet and know them in person
@marveloussm9516
@marveloussm9516 7 жыл бұрын
It's Ya Girl, Jesus' Wife same! McAllen, TX
@raamyasharahla535
@raamyasharahla535 7 жыл бұрын
Yup Tyler Tx 100,000 and plenty of country👍🏾
@tbiggart1
@tbiggart1 7 жыл бұрын
We need to start placing restrictive zoning in flood prone areas. People build houses below sea level in Nawlins, next to bayou banks in Houston, and on barrier islands all over Florida. The houses flood or get blown away and the owners reach into our pockets and rebuild with federal disaster aid. We need to create zones where if you build, you are on your own for rebuilding, no government aid. The oldest part of New Orleans (the French Quarter) did not flood during Katrina. Why? Because 300 years ago the built buildings ABOVE the high water mark.
@johnsradios484
@johnsradios484 7 жыл бұрын
Bad planning , the water gotta go somewhere . There is a way to plan a city , but of course that cost more money . Can't have that .
@teamhex
@teamhex 7 жыл бұрын
No modern drainage system can handle this much water. The rivers are out of their banks...even if the concrete structures didn't exist...they would still be spilling out and flooding places. I'm 30 miles SW and this volume of rain is crazy. No drainage can handle 10+ inches of rain in an hour. If you haven't seen it, you can't even imagine it. You people love to make suggestions in retrospect, but you don't look at the big picture. Where I'm at we're 100 foot ABOVE SEA LEVEL. It doesn't matter because the water has no where to go once that much rain falls. Once the rivers get to a certain level your drainage systems don't even work.
@elli003
@elli003 7 жыл бұрын
You can't plan for a Cat 4 hurricane trapped between 2 high pressure systems forcing it to remain nearly stationery for 5 days without a catastrophic result. Remember, this covered over 50 counties and most of SE Texas. Even a 5 Trillion Dollar Drainage System would have been compromised by this event.
@AAA-bs8ey
@AAA-bs8ey 7 жыл бұрын
teamhex Didn't they clearly say the growth in population is adding to the problem and flooding has gotten worse with more infrastructure and concrete? Apparently it wouldn't be as bad if there were less concrete structures.
@lurker4now
@lurker4now 7 жыл бұрын
The growth in population is mainly to the outer parts of the city. Places that have never flooded are flooding. One of the nicknames for Houston is bayou city. We have drainage systems but when you drop half a years worth of rain in one day the systems that are in place are going to be compromise. I'm not even exaggerating. Half a year of rain the first day. Its been raining none stop since then.
@RCFourFive
@RCFourFive 7 жыл бұрын
Ignorant comment. Ill informed and speculative.
@ilovecanines
@ilovecanines 7 жыл бұрын
We knew that in the 80's! Why has nothing been done to prevent this problem from getting worse?
@Lugmillord
@Lugmillord 7 жыл бұрын
Money. That's the cause of most of these problems. Human greed.
@cmwky92
@cmwky92 7 жыл бұрын
Meanie Head seems minor compared to the quoted repairs of half a billion for the other flood. It seems better to make the effort instead of letting it happen and repair it every time
@mannylugz5872
@mannylugz5872 7 жыл бұрын
Because people dont want to spend money on flood control systems that may cause millions in dollars. Now they are seeing how wanting to save money, actually costs them more.
@Well_possibly
@Well_possibly 7 жыл бұрын
Look up permeable concrete. That is what cities need.
@RCFourFive
@RCFourFive 7 жыл бұрын
The waters where causing floods long before they arrived in the city - 40" of rain caused this flood.
@jediskunk67
@jediskunk67 5 жыл бұрын
Houston and New Orleans are the two major flooding cities in America!
@gainafunction1538
@gainafunction1538 7 жыл бұрын
well the swamps gone and filled up again, not that it was drained in the first place
@PurpleMcNuggets
@PurpleMcNuggets 7 жыл бұрын
Could it be the record breaking rainfall?
@777dingo
@777dingo 7 жыл бұрын
Anywhere would flood if you got 30"-50" of rain
@RCFourFive
@RCFourFive 7 жыл бұрын
Really? Vancouver is flat terrain that gets 30" of rain every day? You are full of it.
@ivantarantsov
@ivantarantsov 7 жыл бұрын
Not if you live on a hill...
@RCFourFive
@RCFourFive 7 жыл бұрын
@Sam LSD - has Vancouver ever got 45" of rain in 1 day?
@madmann1000
@madmann1000 7 жыл бұрын
LOL this fool said Vancouver gets 30'-50' of rain a day?!?!? Even rain forests don't even get that type of rain smh What a lot of people fail to realize is NO city could handle this type of rain coverage. Houston is probably one of the top cities when it comes to drainage. So what we've witness is what happens to a city with a good drainage system just imagine had this hit anywhere else. Also, many cities are susceptible to this type of weather. In 2009, the Peidmont region received over 20' of rain in a matter of days Black Hills flood in SD killed over 200 people and more. Don't think just because you're not near the coast that this can't happen to you. All it takes a perfect storm system with time to waste. .
@peterchan2095
@peterchan2095 7 жыл бұрын
Richmond would have been sunk. Vancouver is high ground.
@iiatargetanalyst3046
@iiatargetanalyst3046 7 жыл бұрын
Houston needs to boost highways. City infrastructure needs to be elevated. Avoid floods cause major damage
@tomhardware2254
@tomhardware2254 7 жыл бұрын
Show me one city in the world that can handle 40 inches of rain in 2 days. Then we can talk
@stayfrostypatrick
@stayfrostypatrick 4 жыл бұрын
I live in Houston and I have to agree. We need to keep those trees!
@cody_janssen831
@cody_janssen831 7 жыл бұрын
Were I live theirs not that many people and the drainage is super good about a day after the hurricane the water was gone and my ditches are huge and were about a 1/4 of a mile from the main ditch
@belindaphillips2779
@belindaphillips2779 6 жыл бұрын
Cody Janssen it's as if I were on an island and everyone around me flooded....
@richardnone5644
@richardnone5644 7 жыл бұрын
there is no question no zoning laws is the main issue in there flooding here in south florida we are also flat and low lying but we build everything about 8' above sea level which lets rain go into canals faster and then to the ocean so there is very little flooding even after a big rain some older areas of Miami were not built up and tend to flood even at high tide richard in fort Lauderdale
@mikesideburns9791
@mikesideburns9791 7 жыл бұрын
Overpopulation from 3rd world countries is partly to blame.
@htvlogs80
@htvlogs80 7 жыл бұрын
To many people rushing over there to TX cause of that state free tax.
@kingb6047
@kingb6047 5 жыл бұрын
DrWeeWe it’s the jobs
@GE4563
@GE4563 7 жыл бұрын
bellaire is a city inside Houston
@thereaper3003
@thereaper3003 7 жыл бұрын
Thank god for Little Rock, Ar. Keep our trees and our woods and the population the same. Houston is like a basketball court.
@j12torts
@j12torts 7 жыл бұрын
Tokyo has more people so you're telling me the greatest country on earth cant solve drainage?? Pathetic.
@nite82hawk
@nite82hawk 7 жыл бұрын
Well there goes my idea of moving to Houston.
@56jnomad
@56jnomad 7 жыл бұрын
Of all the reports and KZbins that have been made and submitted over the last week, nothing has been reported showing Buffalo Bayou east of Houston flowing into the Houston Ship Channel. What is the impact of White Oak and Buffalo Bayou flooding in the refineries and chemical plants along the Ship Channel and Hwy 225 in Pasadena, Deer Park and LaPorte?
@jknightmedia4946
@jknightmedia4946 7 жыл бұрын
There is not a city in the world that could deal with 50 inches of rain over 3 days!
@TheSportsPROgram
@TheSportsPROgram 7 жыл бұрын
This city is done..... this will just keep happening
@forreal245
@forreal245 7 жыл бұрын
This is what happens when you allow an entire other country to move in. Duhh.
@WmTyndale
@WmTyndale 7 жыл бұрын
BECAUSE THEY SPENT ATTENTION AND EFFORT ON SPORTS STADIUMS INSTEAD OF EFFECTIVE FLOOD CONTROL!
@Dbm_-oe7zv
@Dbm_-oe7zv 7 жыл бұрын
WmTyndale, it's because Houston has had multiple record rain falls in the course of a few days. No city could prepare for that
@RCFourFive
@RCFourFive 7 жыл бұрын
2nd dumbest comment on KZbin. I bet your reply will be the dumbest.
@darkslayer213
@darkslayer213 7 жыл бұрын
Which one is the first,RC?
@cubehire3653
@cubehire3653 7 жыл бұрын
Good but I hate the banners on all these new videos which blocks what I want to see.
@thomaslax39
@thomaslax39 7 жыл бұрын
I have trouble believing any city would be able to handle this amount of water over a 4 day period...infrastructure or not.
@DanielGarcia-zz9eg
@DanielGarcia-zz9eg 7 жыл бұрын
That's crazy, floods in Houston all around the loop and within but travel 20 mins on hwy 288 no flood. No flood in Freeport, no flood in Galveston, Rosenberg. What is going on. Almost like Houston us a big bowl
@misspretty1ification
@misspretty1ification 7 жыл бұрын
Sad😣
@PSYCHOLOGYZOOM
@PSYCHOLOGYZOOM 7 жыл бұрын
Why do Mcdonalds employees always act like their job is on the line when I ask for extra sauce??
@eaglefat9398
@eaglefat9398 7 жыл бұрын
Probably because it is, low level managers let there power go to their head and start to threaten the lower level employees jobs at every turn. Wielding power over people makes them feel in control and because they have no control over there actual life they over zealously threaten there employees to fill the gap.
@PSYCHOLOGYZOOM
@PSYCHOLOGYZOOM 7 жыл бұрын
No you wrong again, it is because I am black, they want to make the black man pay again and again!!
@hughrblackwell
@hughrblackwell 7 жыл бұрын
Stop paving the world.
@KingDiola123
@KingDiola123 7 жыл бұрын
The problem is our engineers not engineering waterway well enough and try to go by the least minimum to save money.
@purplemonkey7451
@purplemonkey7451 7 жыл бұрын
This situation is horrible and I have such sympathy for the people. But to be honest, why would anyone move there? Three million more people? Seems like tempting fate to me.
@TaccoToast
@TaccoToast 7 жыл бұрын
wow is that water?
@deborawilliams6390
@deborawilliams6390 7 жыл бұрын
I agree with this man 100%.
@CarlingfordDad2
@CarlingfordDad2 7 жыл бұрын
I feel so bad about this, because this is also our big problem in the Philippines, specifically in Metro Manila. I could say all are concrete and their is no original 🌱.
@cynthiahawkins2389
@cynthiahawkins2389 7 жыл бұрын
BTW "WWJD"?? I don't presume to know that..but my best guess...He would probably be in a boat, helping to rescue stranded Texans...
@kansasthunderman1
@kansasthunderman1 7 жыл бұрын
This is where the "Dig it up and pave it over" mentality gets us. Unlimited population growth and development is a disaster in the making. The San Francisco Bay Area and Southern California have populations over 12 million and their both on top of an earthquake zone.
@granskare
@granskare 7 жыл бұрын
this is going to cost a lot of cash.....did TX senators and congressmen vote against federal help for midwestern states?
@BRITTWOODNESHIE
@BRITTWOODNESHIE 7 жыл бұрын
This is why people should leave the trees and everything alone. House are not to be meant everywhere. Things were put in certain places for a reason. It hurts me to see so many damaged homes and people with nowhere to go. This is exactly why I tell people that they shouldn't judge homeless people because this could be any one of us in the blink of an eye.
@zeldapowers8094
@zeldapowers8094 7 жыл бұрын
Gas prices, food, water, electric is gonna get higher everywhere because of this tragic event..its gonna take a very long time to get all that water out and then after that all the buildings will have to be rebuilt. All the history has been destroyed. Very unfortunate event in history
@twistedthrottle8513
@twistedthrottle8513 7 жыл бұрын
fake news asking for us to subscribe ,what a joke ,
@leshughes748
@leshughes748 7 жыл бұрын
Number 1 landslide. Number 2 hurricane Harvey. Number 3. End of days.
@tybarker5038
@tybarker5038 5 жыл бұрын
I grew up here.. miserable place to be. Feels like it floods every year. Can’t imagine why one would settle where your house could flood full of crap water at any time.
@18Madison81
@18Madison81 7 жыл бұрын
we need some of that water for california. droughts are always an issue here
@jambojambo313
@jambojambo313 7 жыл бұрын
Looks like an average British summer.
@gloriouse4458
@gloriouse4458 7 жыл бұрын
NEW CITY PLANNERS ARE NEEDED 🌺MAY U ALL BE SAFE INCLUDING ANIMALS🐶😻🐾👨‍👩‍👧‍👧🌺
@donna713
@donna713 7 жыл бұрын
I live in Cypress, Texas and I've have been tormented by rapid development over the past two years... so much concrete, so much light pollution. Devastation almost at every corner, for example... another shopping center/gas station being built right across an already built shopping center/gas station.. beautiful wild sunflowers were the perfect landscape to their destruction but guess what??? They mowed them down .. only to landscape it with non native crap.. Harris county is a trap city... they want your money but don't truly care about you deep deep down. Because if they did, we would know it. But they keep building and turning us in to consumers.. traffic .. God the traffic! The crowds... it's very sad.. I say stop growing the city.. and stop it now. At least stop it for a 5 years or a decade.. there are other places to live on the planet than this crowded place ..
@Coolvids75
@Coolvids75 7 жыл бұрын
I'm with you Donna.
@Eclecticajewels
@Eclecticajewels 7 жыл бұрын
A very astute observation! Overdevelopment and overpopulation. With that HUGE amount of rain - of course "everywhere" is gonna flood especially when you're at sea level, too! These coastal cities need to really reconsider "rebuilding" when we've see catastrophic events like Harvey and Katrina.....Seems to me when you keep building and building on an area so close to the coast, in populated areas near canals & bayous (sp?) & you're AT sea level...it's unavoidable. I've wanted to move from here in the Northeast down south for the climate (warm weather, that is) & now I'm definitely reconsidering. If I do, I'll look farther North....Additionally, if i were faced with even a tropical storm, I'd evacuate. After being in a tropical depression on vacation in St. Lucia & getting 8" of rain in about 12 hours, I learned its better to error on the side of caution. Same goes for flood insurance. Better to have it than to NOT have it! Fwiw, if people are going to live in natural disaster prone areas = Be prepared. 3 foot snowstorms have taught me that! Have transportation to get out, money for lodging, etc.....Don't want to Monday morning quarterback but, when you aren't prepared (and when you don't use common sense regarding evacuation) you ultimately put OTHERS at RISK when trying to rescue YOU (as in Harvey now....how MANY have & will DIE doing the rescues?!?!)
@petreosfe
@petreosfe 7 жыл бұрын
Balmung
@belindaphillips2779
@belindaphillips2779 6 жыл бұрын
You can't stop the people from moving here....that's the problem
@jeremygreenidge5209
@jeremygreenidge5209 7 жыл бұрын
I thought that was the problem.
@vivahabbitvanassen
@vivahabbitvanassen 7 жыл бұрын
greed call it what it is. Stop building .
@belindaphillips2779
@belindaphillips2779 6 жыл бұрын
Viva Habbit Van Assen stop moving here then we won't have to build
@jeffjones4071
@jeffjones4071 7 жыл бұрын
The Human Factor!!!
@ucntcit
@ucntcit 7 жыл бұрын
Wow.
@daveo1690
@daveo1690 7 жыл бұрын
Didn't they say during Katrina that the biggest problem was man's destroying the wet lands south of New Orleans. Now it's covering the absorbing wetlands of Houston. Is it me,...or is there a trend here? Cover it with concrete, cut it down and we'll deal with it later. Well, later is here.
@eaglefat9398
@eaglefat9398 7 жыл бұрын
Or maybe 4 feet of water fell out of the sky covering dozens of square miles with in the span of a few days. Seems to me there would be flooding anywhere that much water comes down in that amount of time. And hurricanes are a naturally occurring event that has always happened and will alway happen no where is ever safe its earth get over it.
@RCFourFive
@RCFourFive 7 жыл бұрын
Its just you. The flooding was occurring UPSTREAM of Houston in adjacent rural counties. More water fell from the sky than all the rivers could drain to the ocean. This region flooded in 1900, 1925, 1929, 1935 and many times since then. Population has nothing to do with these floods
@undeadlizard368
@undeadlizard368 7 жыл бұрын
What a fine day for looting
@HeartzHugzKissez
@HeartzHugzKissez 7 жыл бұрын
They've already started in the Galleria/Uptown area.
@tammyh.1769
@tammyh.1769 7 жыл бұрын
thieves
@Well_possibly
@Well_possibly 7 жыл бұрын
Keksi, have some class. Stop being immature while you are at it.
@elli003
@elli003 7 жыл бұрын
And if they try to loot my house, they're dead meat.
@Tom-mn3is
@Tom-mn3is 7 жыл бұрын
Well possibly, that is the most pretentious thing I have heard all day.
@jamesdavis5096
@jamesdavis5096 7 жыл бұрын
A great news story would be Pontoon Beach IL. It is a smaller town but a good example of how the politicians keep issuing building permits, knowing where the water will flow, by planting trees to help absorb it(hundreds of trees). This known admission of prior knowledge make them guilty. They push homeowners out of their home by causing the flooding. Now they have built massive warehouses, with no place for the water to go, it is getting bad there.
@davidgrout1056
@davidgrout1056 7 жыл бұрын
First line of story - "In the nation's fourth largest city, floods are a way of life" followed by sound bite "I've never seen anything like it." Hmmm.
@belindaphillips2779
@belindaphillips2779 6 жыл бұрын
David Grout he was from new York lol
@FlowerofDissolution
@FlowerofDissolution 7 жыл бұрын
That was informative. Still, if knowledge of the problem already exists, why isn't that incorporated in building regulations and especially road regulations?
@JameZayer
@JameZayer 7 жыл бұрын
because remember... "durr regulations stagnate progress" according to most political spin you hear
@FlowerofDissolution
@FlowerofDissolution 7 жыл бұрын
JαmëŽǎɏe Ah, I forget, Americans despise regulations. They think regulations are an existential threat and how the government wants to control, not help, their lives. Well, good luck with that attitude (sigh).
@sammyjean5131
@sammyjean5131 7 жыл бұрын
The city built up way to fast and cheaply and developers got greedy and try to turn swamp land into subdivisions and this is what happens. Swamps are swamps for a reason.
@tmmle7
@tmmle7 7 жыл бұрын
An investment in porous concrete and limitations to population growth may help...but unlikely
@alisonmarie
@alisonmarie 7 жыл бұрын
I'll keep my snow.
@GR-qr8nv
@GR-qr8nv 7 жыл бұрын
The bigger issue is global warming, when all the ice caps melt, sea level would rise 240 feet more, making tsunamis and hurricane 5 to 10 times more severe, a global catastrophic event where all cities, inland and coastal cities would be wiped out. Truly nothing on Earth is meant to last. All we did was speed up our inevitable doom.
@eddieanderson9399
@eddieanderson9399 7 жыл бұрын
Someone just emailed me from Houston saying their wi-fi was down. huh?
@jamesfletcher9268
@jamesfletcher9268 7 жыл бұрын
Building on a flood plain guarantees this type of catastrophic flooding. Yet they will rebuild...only to be devastated again. That's the very definition of insanity.
@jwill6312
@jwill6312 7 жыл бұрын
James Fletcher Then we should evacuate California. Droughts, Wildfires,Earthquakes...no one should live there. Evacuate Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, people weren't meant to live in the desert. Florida sticks out like a sore thumb begging a hurricane to hit it, so lets get rid of that also.
@jamesfletcher9268
@jamesfletcher9268 7 жыл бұрын
Johnathan Williams Jesus...lay off the caffine. There are many natural disasters that we can do nothing about...but building on a flood plain is something that we can do something about. These areas are nature's way of protecting us from severe flooding by absorbing huge amounts of flood water...only now they have been developed and paved over. We do need to think about better housing and locations for people to live...it only makes sense. These floods will happen again. Peoples homes will be destroyed...that's for certain.
@jwill6312
@jwill6312 7 жыл бұрын
James Fletcher You need some caffeine to stimulate your brain out of the "snooze" mode its clearly in. Spare me the Pocahantas speech. You cant stop progress. The city is growing for a reason, its a great place to live. Instead of running away to whichever pockets of the Earth that are deemed perfect by youtube engineering geniuses like yourself, we need to do a better job with infrastructure. Thats not just Houston, the entire country's infrastructure is crumbling. They had a much worse flooding issue, in Tokyo. They didn't run away, they put their minds to work and engineered a solution. They built the "G Cans". I choose to believe in the resilience and ingenuity of mankind. You choose to cower like a dog and limit yourself.
@imwithme2389
@imwithme2389 7 жыл бұрын
ummmm SO MOVE PEOPLE
@ARon82
@ARon82 7 жыл бұрын
I know what city im never moving to!
@belindaphillips2779
@belindaphillips2779 6 жыл бұрын
AnthonyTube thanks we don't need anymore people here
@1972cableman
@1972cableman 7 жыл бұрын
IS NICE TO LIVE IN HOUSTON YOU HAVE TO ADAPT .....
@cheryl01234
@cheryl01234 7 жыл бұрын
who in their right mind wants to live there after this?!
@belindaphillips2779
@belindaphillips2779 6 жыл бұрын
Chloe Six everyone
@oflores7457
@oflores7457 7 жыл бұрын
KEYWORD. FLOOD LANDS
@atomicfusionvideo
@atomicfusionvideo 7 жыл бұрын
jacksonville florida largest city in america floooooded in matthew too... florida is hot humid and nasty humidity and water does not dry out ...like texas will.......all of it sad
@WiIdbiII
@WiIdbiII 6 жыл бұрын
In Houston We actually pay a TAX for the Rain. YES THAT's Correct!!! They call it a RUN OFF TAX. For the water Running off our property. But i think it's named for The Mayor Running Off with the Money!!
@dimaatik
@dimaatik 7 жыл бұрын
i will never live in Houston
@superduperjew
@superduperjew 7 жыл бұрын
Extreme precipitation. Anything but what every academy/institute of science is saying, huh? These 100 or 1000 years storms are happening every few years... MORE ENERGY IN THE ATMOSPHERE= MORE EXTREMES. I'm sure the increased concrete doesn't help, but let's not ignore the elephant in the room
@heidegger101
@heidegger101 7 жыл бұрын
too much concrete but nothing to do with global warming
@ramirobenavidez7871
@ramirobenavidez7871 7 жыл бұрын
This people are not baby. they said Friday that 25+ inch's were fall there in Houston .I know no money.4 million poor people live there.
@metalingus9997
@metalingus9997 7 жыл бұрын
They should do what LA did to its river. Concrete it up
@Coolvids75
@Coolvids75 7 жыл бұрын
Bottom line: too many people.
@eaglefat9398
@eaglefat9398 7 жыл бұрын
Nonsense, What do large groups of people attract rain? People have nothing to do with a hurricane hitting and dumping +50" inches of rain, hurricanes have alway happened, in fact we are in a hurricane low point there use to be around 3-5 hurricanes a year in the 90's.
@Coolvids75
@Coolvids75 7 жыл бұрын
It has nothing to do with attracting rain. Basically, a larger population means more development/concrete. Look at this video's description.
@RCFourFive
@RCFourFive 7 жыл бұрын
The video is full of crap. The rain deluge was creating flood conditions even in the rural non-concrete areas. Please educate yourself before commenting. You concept city is a downtown - this city is spread out over an entire county - and flooding was occurring UPSTREAM of Houston in adjacent counties before the water got here.
@Coolvids75
@Coolvids75 7 жыл бұрын
RCFourFive I have "educated myself". And please look at the number of likes for this video compared to the number of dislikes.
@eaglefat9398
@eaglefat9398 7 жыл бұрын
Oh so the concrete made 4.5feet of water fall from the sky across hundreds of miles within a few days. It flooded because of a crazy amount of water came down all at once, the amount of rain has nothing to do with the amount of concrete on the ground. 4.5 feet of rain fall does not mean 4.5 feet of rain spread across miles it means 4.5 feet of rain evenly came down everywhere all at once* (few days) across hundreds of miles. That much water will flood anywhere it lands even the middle of a sandy desert or in the grassy fields of farm land. Thats nipple deep water across a hundred miles all at once, they could be at the top of a mountain and that much water could not roll down the hill fast enough for it not to flood literally open flowing water does not move that fast. Here in south FL we get hurricanes all the time and we have giant water ways that flow into the ocean for the rain water to flow off into but even though they connect to the ocean the canals still flood because water can't flow out into the ocean fast enough to deal with that much water that quick and we only get half that much rain at best because hurricanes blow over us faster.
@uchibauki2515
@uchibauki2515 7 жыл бұрын
No dam
@double00shotgun
@double00shotgun 7 жыл бұрын
The reason it floods so much is because of the bayous
@dallasbreault289
@dallasbreault289 7 жыл бұрын
Katrina 2.0
@eaglefat9398
@eaglefat9398 7 жыл бұрын
I like how they are trying to blame people for the flooding SMH, building a city does not change the amount of dirt under it that can absorb water, in most cases they actually bring in fill/dirt to build up the ground. Any place at sea level that gets +50" inches of rain in a few days will flood because the ground gets saturated, just because theres a building there doesn't mean the water won't soak into the ground under it. Not to mention most of the ground around Texas is clay that drains very slowly if at all.
@elvisherrera5684
@elvisherrera5684 7 жыл бұрын
Why Houston flood because there is a hurricane with a lot of rain thats my guess!!!!!!!
@RCFourFive
@RCFourFive 7 жыл бұрын
Nonsense. YOU are totally ignorant of the facts. Rural areas away from the city are flooding due to the amount of rain. Once the rain stops and the rivers, creeks and bayous drain the flood event goes away.
@madmann1000
@madmann1000 7 жыл бұрын
Thank you. Everyone keeps saying the drainage system is poor. Houston has one of the best drainage systems in the country, believe it or not. It's equip to handle 2 to 3 inches of rain an hour. We were getting like 10 inches an hour with this system. In any other cities you would've had 10 story buildings underwater and death toll over 100.
@hm2473
@hm2473 7 жыл бұрын
Poor America under flood
@gerardomorales532
@gerardomorales532 7 жыл бұрын
I wonder what the homeless people at downtown doing right now?
@izzysvlogs9040
@izzysvlogs9040 7 жыл бұрын
When you think Britain is bad 😳
@freshboiali6520
@freshboiali6520 7 жыл бұрын
This is all because if the solar eclipse news said after the solar these stuff to happen
@TS-zo5wm
@TS-zo5wm 7 жыл бұрын
Human mainly problems
@linzierogers5024
@linzierogers5024 5 ай бұрын
The root cause? Money in poilitics.
@johnadams-rx6gf
@johnadams-rx6gf 7 жыл бұрын
Really lame last shot lol
@oflores7457
@oflores7457 7 жыл бұрын
Evacuate houston?? Or in another words HAY VIENE LA MIGRA!! And only like 2 white families and 6 black families left in houston!!! Jusk kiding GOD BLESS HOUSTON PEOPLE!!!!!!
@luiscruz1631
@luiscruz1631 7 жыл бұрын
Hey im still learning big deal wow that really got yah huh lol
@evelyntucker4551
@evelyntucker4551 2 жыл бұрын
Terrible
@ms.woodard8714
@ms.woodard8714 7 жыл бұрын
HAARP
@roguex9469
@roguex9469 7 жыл бұрын
Don't they have drains? Oh wait I need to rephrase that, don't have better drains? It's Texas the "best state in all of the U.S" according to residents. 🐎
@thackythac
@thackythac 7 жыл бұрын
Lets not forget how "self reliant" they are as well. I guess begging for help is what they see as self reliance.
@fionajordan6565
@fionajordan6565 7 жыл бұрын
ADDING 100,000 thousand non tax paying MEXICANS a year that need HELP . BUILD THAT WALL
@scoop6322
@scoop6322 7 жыл бұрын
Fiona jordan go start laying Bricks help your country
@FIVEPANCAKES
@FIVEPANCAKES 7 жыл бұрын
Forget about rebuilding those homes. The wall is what we need 😂😂😂😂
@楊晟-x5u
@楊晟-x5u 3 жыл бұрын
cuz they cheat
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