I Think

The brand new Grand Parkway is a perfect example. All that pavement going up has to drain the water back and it fills the intersections where the exits are located, which have drains that can only handle light showery days, it seems.

EB, keep talking with us.

this miss is horrid.. as you know.

Report when you can,

It has not rained in some hours. I have the windows open and a nice breeze is coming in. More rain is in the forecast, but as I have said, floods are not in the cards for this neighborhood. The only actual weather related problem we have suffered from, in 18 years living here, was from hurricane Ike. I am in high hopes our luck continues in this vein.

I swear there are no civil engineers (et al) here, much less city planners with brains. Maybe, but it seems not. I take it as the same where you are. Problem is that voters, not all just stupid, don't have enough info, or if the info is sent to then, do no read it.

That is my gripe here, contractors seem not to have a clue about drainage.

Glad re that your area is ok,,

I swear there are no civil engineers (et al) here, much less city planners with brains. Maybe, but it seems not. I take it as the same where you are. Problem is that voters, not all just stupid, don't have enough info, or if the info is sent to then, do no read it.

Thing about it is, they want to move people and so they build all these stupidly designed freeways. The promise of mobility entices people to buy and the home builders are no smarter than the freeway designers. The sprawl and flood potential feeds on itself.

I'm not arguing with you.

I worked, via our firm, for a top builder re the U.S.
I eventually got out of it, pissy woman that I am, but also did stuff I now question.

No. No arguments. These forums sometimes make us feel we are in an argument when we are not. I am a little better at figuring that out now than when I first started.

When we lived in Naperville, IL, our home was on ''higher land," and when it rained we didn't have any flooding problems, and we had a basement. Some homes in our neighborhood had flooding problems. Our home in Sunnyvale is also on higher land, and we can see the water drain down to the lower street.
Just luck.

Some of the streets are still like rivers, here. My daughter's neighborhood is an island she can't get off of. I had planned on driving to Decker Prairie today, but I doubt I can get where I want to go.

As you know, our son lives in Austin. Do you know how hard they were hit?

The TV doesn't mention Austin.

I saw a map of the flood. It seems to have missed Austin.

More rain today. It started about ten minutes ago.

But the sun did come out a while ago. They are giving tomorrow a 50% chance of more rain.

More rain falling out there.

RG Ratcliffe
1 hr · Austin, TX ·
Happy San Jacinto Day! And since I'm often guilty of looking at the dark side of history, remember this: The Texian troops slaughtered Mexican soldiers as they tried to surrender by standing in the bayou with their hands up shouting, "Me no Alamo." The bodies of the dead Mexicans were left unburied on the San Jacinto battlefield for more than a year until cows started eating their bones and it made the milk taste bad. And finally, the Mexican soldiers who were captured were taken to a "prison" on Galveston Island that essentially consisted of a square of dirt walls with guards on top. The soldiers lived largely without shelter. Sand crabs ate at their clothing. Many agreed to be sold as slaves just to get out of the prison. One of these men was sold to the estate of Alamo commander William B. Travis. About a year later, the Mexican and Travis' Alamo slave Joe, ran away. Travis' estate posted a reward of $50 for their return. They were never captured. History just never is as clean as we want it.