[timestax]

I've been told by long-time locals that, because Houston is so flat, the highway system was designed to become water catch-basins during severe storms. This was intentional to keep the water out of neighborhoods. This is why the roads become impassable and the city gridlocks, but the homes don't flood.

So try to keep off roads during rainstorms !

[deport]

Don’t streets in most subdivisions set below the homes they run in front of?
Thus streets are part of the drainage plan.

[Political Junkie Too]

You betcha!

Many downtown businesses will release their employees by 2:00PM if there is a forecast of heavy sustained rain.

Do people remember the rainstorm during the NBA playoffs a year ago? People who left the Toyota Center after the Rockets/Warriors game were stuck overnight on the freeways.

Houston knows what happens when it rains here, but NOBODY has experience managing the fallout of a Category 4 hurricane that stalls outside your city for two days and throws the "dirty side" rains at you non-stop.

-PJ