I know there were parts of New Orleans that were out of the flood plain. And yes, there are parts of Houston that have never been flooded like this.
That’s why they call them 1,000 year floods. It doesn’t mean “never.” It means in recorded history.
thanks.
We were in a flood in 1986 - they called it a 100 year flood. Our street was inclined and we were downhill and flattened out. In 1987 a worse (wider and deeper) flood hit, they called it a “500” year flood.
We think of N.O. when Katrina is mentioned, but way more areas than N.O got hammered.
N.O. almost survived with minimal flood\water damage then the levees broke.
Houston has flooded often...memorial day week 2015 - the whole city flooded. Then flooded again memorial day week 2016.
Interesting article here: https://weather.com/storms/severe/news/houston-flood-history-may2015-allison
However, nobody is claiming they have seen anything like Harvey - already a record rainfall in U.S. - a levee 50 miles south of houston was breeched - how bad, don’t know but evacuation was ordered. Reservoir overflowed. 2 Damns overflowed.
I can’t imagine what this would be like if it stayed a CAT4 storm.
Interesting article here about Katrina v Harvey.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/28/us/hurricane-katrina-harvey.html?mcubz=0
Just damn...