re: SW LA getting rocked by severe storms this morning.

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yet the mayor and the weatherment are spouting a bunch of climate change bs instead of admitting the problem

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You do understand it’s more than one problem, right? Also, let me know when you find a city that doesn’t flood if 15” of water falls on you in less than a 10 hour time frame.

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we're getting rain the next 3 days. we can handle more rain (in terms of flooding) in most places b/c there is drainage that works. it just can't handle a ton dumped in an hour or whatever. however, some areas are f'd. too much development in southern areas of Calcasieu the past 20 years in rice fields has (1) removed those fields as drainage areas and (2) put housing in historic area of drainage/water accumulation during rain

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Morgan field will eventually cause drainage problems in that area.

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That's brutal, but I'm sorry I can't help but laugh at the "caution wet floor" sign up

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They had to put the sign up, there were Aggies at the hotel.

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We will have dozens of people come in and tell us that there is no way for anyone to plan for these 500 year rains since they only happen every 500 years.

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You can certainly plan for them, but affordability of houses in neighborhoods designed to a 0.2% annual chance flood elevation is the issue. You are correct though that people don't understand risk because they never get a proper explanation from the housing industry on what it means.

Replying to latest post.

My buddy has a fancy rain gauge and sent me this text. We live at the corner of Hoo Shoo Too and Jefferson.

“ My rain gage recorded 13.1” yesterday. 10.9” of it between 7pm and midnight.”

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Morgan field will eventually cause drainage problems in that area.

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It won't fix all the drainage issues but they put some massive retention ponds in when they built those neighborhoods. Still are digging them as they add on too.

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You do understand it’s more than one problem, right?

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So give me the climate data that supports the climate change stuff because out of the top 10 rainfall events for LC many were 40-50+ years ago

Also they should have pictures of the same kind of flooding in LC from the events in the 1940s and 50s

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You can certainly plan for them, but affordability of houses in neighborhoods designed to a 0.2% annual chance flood elevation is the issue.

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I think you missed my point. It seems we are having 500 year rains far more often now in South LA.

This is true and is an issue in the majority of the country.

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it just can't handle a ton dumped in an hour or whatever. however, some areas are f'd. too much development in southern areas of Calcasieu the past 20 years in rice fields has (1) removed those fields as drainage areas and (2) put housing in historic area of drainage/water accumulation during rain

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the really southern areas didnt really even flood except in some low lying areas. Thats not what happened.

1) the city still has a ton of drainage issues from the hurricane

2) you had a 100 year storm of 15" in less than 12 hours. Drainage is designed to handle basically an average 100 year event. This was mroe than that

3) most of the worst flood was on lake street due to contraband backing up. why is it backed up? because water levels were already high before the storm.

the areas that flooded didnt use those fields as drainage. And as far as historic flooding events....sure those flooded as expected but the ones along lake have never really flooded.

its not like LC is flooding all the time, but drainage is a big issue in the city. Alot of it is BS by the city. For example, my terra saint neighborhood is missing close to 20% of the drains that are on the approved plan by the city council. no changes were approved by the council, yet the subdivision owner was allowed to get away with this bullshite because the city didnt check and is not good at checking and forcing their had even when they do get out there.