Re: Bad weather in Texas

I don't know Pam......Houston is used to flooding and has areas in  every 
subdivision for run off water  to  help control  flooding...and even have a group 
of very knowledgeable folks who's full time job  is flood control. Areas have 
pumps that kick in automatically if they  flood, etc. etc. etc.  and yet we 
still flood despite these best  efforts.  
Many cities flood with as little as  5 inches of rain.....so one never  knows 
what would happen if it ever rains that much in a short time.  Water  levels 
have a way of rising up so quickly that pumps, storm drains,  etc. cannot 
handle it.  Hence the word Flash flood.  Look at the San  Antonio/ Austin and hill 
country area with all the hills, they thought  for sure they would never 
flood.....HA!  a few years ago, they had serious  flooding problems that 
overwhelmed many.  
I guess you have to have experienced that much rain, and the problems to  not 
wish for too much. 
Noreen
zone 9
Texas Gulf Coast
 
 
 
In a message dated 10/18/2006 11:03:02 AM Central Standard Time,  
gardenchat-owner@hort.net writes:

what's  even funnier is I wish we'd had the 10 inches and you had 2.  We  can
absorb it easily and you can't.   Lavon's little better than  a mudhole,
Tawakoni isn't much better.  Cedar Creek is low but not  terrible because of
the storms that skitter east of here and don't get to  this side of the lake.
We need about 30 - 40 inches to start getting caught  up.

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