Give Trump a pat on the back for those Texas floods

@3Dogmatic when is the time to review the root causes and look for ways to prevent them?

As far as politics in this case, who threw the proverbial first stone? Who immediately blamed predecessors for lack of better preparation?

@samueltyler2 Trump's impact on all science is troubling.

@exexec that is an understatement.

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@kodiac sorry, when i said democrats, I assumed that you woud be smart enough to know i meant meant those whose identities meant something and we could recognize. If this is the best you can do, so be it!

@kodiac I remember when Obama cut NOAA funds, because it was right after the big Thailand tsunami. Any third party? Americans get no sympathy, then.

@22Michelle the topography of the Guadalupe river is not conducive to retention ponds or ditches. They had almost a years amount of rain fall in one night. The area is limestone hills and sand. They also had a smaller flood the week prior and the sand was saturated thus reducing the amount of absorption.

To give you a scale of the amount of water, the reservoir down stream (Lake Travis) was in drought status. It is not up over 60 feet from where it was, all from one night of rain.

I am probably more versed in retention/detention ponds and ditches than most here. Being a Houston native and seeing the results of hurricanes and tropical storms, I can say that they work up and to only a certain degree. I stand by my original statement that there is no mitigation for that type of flood.

@3Dogmatic So Lake Travis the reservoir went from drought to 60ft level. In other words it absorbed a great deal of water. aka mitigation, that would have contributed to the flooding. So why aren't there other reservoirs to assist flood prevention?
If you're saying the cost of such mitigation / prevention has been considered and rejected that's a very different thing, but you've given evidence of the potential of flood prevention while also saying such flood prevention is not possible?

@22Michelle there are four reservoirs along the Guadalupe river. The problem is the area between the lakes. Normal amounts of rain (3-5”) at a time causes minor flash floods but the area handles it well. When it receives 25+ inches in a matter of hours, problems arise that cannot be mitigated. The local authorities bare some blame for not putting flood sirens along the river, but the state is stepping in to remedy that. The other problem that was discovered was that the remote areas lacked cellular signal and the alerts were not received. My oldest daughter was at Lake Buchanan (the Northern most reservoir) during that weekend and said she got the alerts starting around sundown on the 4th. It is just a tragic event.

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