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Re:The U.S. Flooded One of Houston’s Richest Neighborhoods t... by lostboys67 on Thursday November 16, 2017 @09:34AM (#15712857)
You could say it serves them right (rich people) for building in a flood plain - it's normally the newer less nice areas that get flooded in the UK - as in the past they where considered to risky
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Re:The U.S. Flooded One of Houston’s Richest Neighborhoods t... by an_account on Thursday November 16, 2017 @10:19AM (#15713280)
One thing not mentioned in this article is that there has been a lot of new housing development inside of the reservoir (upstream). So they had to start releasing water earlier because they couldn’t let it fill up as much as originally planned when the reservoir was built.
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Re:The U.S. Flooded One of Houston’s Richest Neighborhoods t... by Dirlewanger on Thursday November 16, 2017 @10:05AM (#15713142)
Seriously. I know one generally shouldn't blame victims, but it is their fault in this case. Humanity's hubris needs to be checked every once in a while. I hope the federal government prevails (though admittedly it doesn't look good for them).
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Re:The U.S. Flooded One of Houston’s Richest Neighborhoods t... by jasonmaydie on Thursday November 16, 2017 @09:41AM (#15712920)
technically every location can become a flooding plane if you build a man-made dam in that geographic location
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Re:The U.S. Flooded One of Houston’s Richest Neighborhoods t... by freeloop3 on Thursday November 16, 2017 @09:52AM (#15713006)
technically not true because there needs to be water to dam for the plane to be flooded.
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