1/ #Harvey is dumping unprecedented amounts of rain on Houston.https://twitter.com/DoubleHornPhoto/status/901782532399800320 …
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3/ Climate change plays a role. So does Houston's utter lack lack of zoning, and relentless development in flood-prone areas.
4/ The city has paved over over 166,000 acres of mostly former coastal prairie since 2001, land that held highly absorbent grasses.pic.twitter.com/S8fVic3McS
I think that's exactly what they are proving. Greedy, unrestricted development is the problem.
When cities flat refuse to plan and they use FEMA as policy. Sucks.
Well that didn't work out so well. FEMA is MIA down here. Starting to see Coast Guard choppers over Houston. Other that that, No Feds
Respectfully. Too soon for this.
NO zoning. Short-term economic gains vs. long-term flood risk, impermeable cement vs absorbent grasses, overpeopled & too few escape routes
Wow. And it's just the beginning
Parallels to 1930s Dust Bowl are remarkable. How many times must we suffer catastrophic man-made ecological disasters bf heeding scientists?
People want to live the way they want to live. Choose a home in a flood plain near the Gulf and this is part of the equation.
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