Three More Houston before and after pics......

[USALiberal]

[dalton99a]

1. Kick

[Matthew28]

2. Mindblown

[Demtexan]

3. You get used to it.

My street looks like a river right now.

In the old days house were built on cement blocks in yards. Smart people back then.

Now the old houses are tore down and town houses are built. No yards.

I a sitting in a old house in a yard .

My home is not flooded.

[USALiberal]

4. Good news for you! n/t

[Pope George Ringo II]

5. Your biggest change isn't even your house

All that new construction has paved over a lot of the drainage you were relying on to stay dry.

[Demtexan]

6. Yep.

Townhouses everywhere.

Cement everyways.

Shame.

No zoning no planning.

[Duppers]

7. Reminds me of this Joni Mitchell song

Big Yellow Taxi

They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel *, a boutique
And a swinging hot spot

Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot

They took all the trees
Put 'em in a tree museum *
And they charged the people
A dollar and a half just to see 'em

Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot

Hey farmer farmer
Put away that DDT * now
Give me spots on my apples
But leave me the birds and the bees
Please!

Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot.

[Demtexan]

9. I love that song.

It is true.

My old neighborhood was so cool.

Little single family house in yards.

Now over priced crappy built town houses.

There is a song called "Little Houses".

Fits what the neighborhood looks like now.

I will either sell or raise the house higher now.



Shame to.

[BruceWane]

22. No zoning, per se

But we do have a lot of "land use" regulations. Right now, new construction of any kind has to have analysis of paved area and water retention area has to be included in the construction plan.

This is why so many newer residential developments here have "Lake" in their names - there's always some sort of retention area to offset the new pavement, and the developers make this into a feature.

This certainly hasn't always been so, and the retention regulations don't affect old construction.

Harris County Flood Control District has been purchasing some large areas of land in strategic places throughout runoff zones to build major retention areas, but it's a work in process.

This event is beyond any reasonable planning, though. Some areas on the south side of the city were reportedly getting 10+ inches of rain per hour for 3-4 hours Saturday night.

News just said the this is being classified as a 800 year flood event. But considering we've had serious flooding 3 times in 3 years now, I think all the old benchmarks have been *washed away*

[Demtexan]

23. We need zoning with teeth.

Townhouses should never have been build in certain places.

Houses have been build in flood prone areas.

My old neighborhood and other old neighborhoods were built with common sense.

My neighborhood is well over 100 years old.

Houses were built in yards on blocks.

Water would go under your house not in your house.

You cannot pave over a swamp.

Houston is built on a swamp.

Mother nature will have her way.

We need to grow but with planning and common sense.

Money was doing to much talking.

[Bengus81]

12. Monitoring a weather station in Spring NW of Bush Intl...

Last edited Sun Aug 27, 2017, 04:54 PM - Edit history (2)

Over 19 inches of rain from Sat plus Sun. The station is showing an rainfall rate avg of about 1.42" per hour. You look at radar and then look at it two hours later and nothing has moved,spinning in the exact same position.

[Duppers]

8. Wow, shocking.

[Demtexan]

10. I-10 by my house is floated again.

It is built below ground.

[USALiberal]

16. Good luck! n.t

[Honeycombe8]

11. OMG. Devastating. nt

[mcar]

13. Staggering

[question everything]

14. I don't get it. Didn't the mayor of Houston tell them to stay put

that he remembered the mess of so many cars jamming the roads?

[WhiteTara]

15. That is mind boggling. nt

[USALiberal]

25. It is! n/t

[chwaliszewski]

17. Holy crap!

[klook]

18. Horrifying

They have oil there, right? I guess the Republicans will deign to help the city then, and the humans will benefit.

[oasis]

19. This will take months to repair.

[Ligyron]

20. Ho lee shit!

Almost unimaginable 'til you see it.

[CrispyQ]

21. No words.

[Stuart G]

24. Horrible..!!!k and r..