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re: Tropical Storm Nicholas - Flash Flood Watch for South Louisiana
Posted on 9/12/21 at 8:35 pm to RummelTiger
Posted on 9/12/21 at 8:35 pm to RummelTiger
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The natural landscape is altered with the construction, thus causing rain to pool in places that it naturally wouldn't.
Correct.
Also, every new subdivision and shopping center replaces ground that used to absorb water.
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Posted on 9/12/21 at 8:37 pm to Bestbank Tiger
Every new subdivision or shopping center has to detain to pre development levels.
Posted on 9/12/21 at 8:38 pm to RummelTiger
Yep and we should be replacing regular cement with porous cement that will allow draining right to the soil . Jefferson Parish is like 80 cement and it makes drainage harder to move the water.
Posted on 9/12/21 at 8:39 pm to Mr Sausage
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Every new subdivision or shopping center has to detain to pre development levels.
Posted on 9/12/21 at 8:40 pm to Mr Sausage
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Every new subdivision or shopping center has to detain to pre development levels.
Posted on 9/12/21 at 8:41 pm to Cosmo
Well, I guess I am going to get to experience this flooding everyone talks about here. THe floods all have names. Tax Day flood. Harvey, Memorial Day, etc....
I wasn't here for any of them but they seem to be pretty notable events. This could really suck for a few days.
I wasn't here for any of them but they seem to be pretty notable events. This could really suck for a few days.
Posted on 9/12/21 at 8:41 pm to lsusteve1
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I get that part but the 30+ " rainfall totals aren't normal.
There's a climate element that few will be willing to acknowledge but it's more of a multiplier than a direct cause. Just gooses the rainfall rates a little.
We've had a lot of cases recently where steering falls apart when storms are coming in. Probably a function of all the tropical systems getting into the gulf in recent years, a few of em are going to stall. The big flood events have almost all been tropical (and August 2016 was warm cored and doing efficient warm rainmaking like a tropical cyclone).
You combine with that development turning areas with soil into concrete that just runs off, and you get more floods.
Posted on 9/12/21 at 8:43 pm to t00f
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Yep and we should be replacing regular cement with porous cement that will allow draining right to the soil .
You know, assuming there isn't some fundamental flaw in the porous concrete I don't know about since I'm not a concrete doctor.
Posted on 9/12/21 at 8:44 pm to Cosmo
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People built on high ground back then
Now we build on whatever is available
For sure.
I read Rummel’s post as if he meant an entire region and not neighborhoods/suburbs.
Posted on 9/12/21 at 8:45 pm to Prominentwon
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I read Rummel’s post as if he meant an entire region and not neighborhoods/suburbs.
Bruh, you think I'm slow...like Oweo?
Posted on 9/12/21 at 8:46 pm to Mr Sausage
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Every new subdivision or shopping center has to detain to pre development levels.
Every project in the Louisiana coastal zone that has destroys a an acre of wetland has to mitigate on site or elsewhere through mitigation banks.
If you find where we put those replacement wetlands please let us know.
Posted on 9/12/21 at 8:47 pm to supadave3
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Well, I guess I am going to get to experience this flooding everyone talks about here. THe floods all have names. Tax Day flood. Harvey, Memorial Day, etc....
What part of town are you in?
Posted on 9/12/21 at 8:48 pm to FlyinTiger93
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It’s hit the 500 year flood plain twice in the last 5 years
Yeah, there are some detention projects planned for the area, but they haven't happened yet. Thankfully there is a good portion of the property outside the floodplain that I plan to build on. I'm eventually going to put some tree house short term rentals down in the floodplain.
Posted on 9/12/21 at 8:50 pm to rds dc
I don’t post really ever, but This is super important to me. I am bringing my husband, who has terminal brain cancer to MD Anderson for his monthly check up tomorrow and his appointments are Tuesday. Do y’all think we should reschedule? I don’t want to get stuck in Houston with the rain.
This post was edited on 9/12/21 at 8:51 pm
Posted on 9/12/21 at 8:50 pm to RummelTiger
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Bruh, you think I'm slow...like Oweo?
Posted on 9/12/21 at 8:54 pm to Tigergal9311
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Tigergal9311
Would it be too difficult to mover to the end of the week or next week? If not, then maybe that would be a better idea - especially with the Space City Weather guys being bullish on flooding.
Prayers to you and your husband.
Posted on 9/12/21 at 8:56 pm to RummelTiger
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Would it be too difficult to mover to the end of the week or next week? If not, then maybe that would be a better idea - especially with the Space City Weather guys being bullish on flooding.
Prayers to you and your husband.
Rummy's right, I wouldn't be looking to go to Houston early this week unless you really need to. Not being a doctor though, couldn't really say what you should do.
Also where are you coming from?
Posted on 9/12/21 at 8:57 pm to billjamin
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What part of town are you in?
Before you judge, remember that Im new to Houston.
Off 290, about 3 miles from the Beltway.
This post was edited on 9/12/21 at 8:57 pm
Posted on 9/12/21 at 8:57 pm to RummelTiger
Thanks! I will call them tomorrow before we leave. I’m in Lafayette so we have a small drive. Hopefully we can move it to latest this week. Next week we head to Disneyworld for a yolo trip we have wanted to take for a decade.
Posted on 9/12/21 at 8:59 pm to Duke
Thanks, I’m coming from Lafayette
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