Re: Re: Bad weather in Texas

Shame all that water can't be collected and used next summer.


> [Original Message]
> From: Pam Evans <gardenqueen@gmail.com>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Date: 10/18/2006 9:17:09 PM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Re: Bad weather in Texas
>
> We've had up to 7 inches in one day and it was OK here.  Of course I have
a
> pier & beam foundation, and my property is on a slight incline towards the
> back.  All my beds are constructed to stand up to temporary run off
> conditions and it works well, even when the driveway resembles a river.
> Makes me wonder if I should have been a civil engineer - LOL.
> And this clay will soak up a LOT of water.  The streets flood of course
but
> that is only temporary.  But that hasn't happened in a very long time.
>
>
> On 10/18/06, TeichFlora@aol.com <TeichFlora@aol.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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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> Pam Evans
> Kemp TX
> zone 8A
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