What is it about Houston?

[TheWorldNewsOrg]

What is it about Houston?

 

 

[James Thomas Rook Jr.]

I designed a 10.000 year storm model for Savannah River Site (Dept. of Energy, near Aiken, SC), for a radioactive waste burial grounds, which was silly, as it would be part of the Atlantic Ocean ... and no records exist, it was calculated using a great range of assumptions and questionable formulas. ... but Houston supposedly is a 500 year storm, which would have cost billions of dollars to design for, and may turn out as a 1,000 year storm before it is finished.

NOBODY can afford to plan for every possible emergency.

Putting up barriers to prevent a person from running into porcupines is an example.

I used to work in Houston, and it has flooding problems with a five year storm, and less ... and cannot afford to design for normal annual rainfall without underpasses into the city flooding.

Theoretically, you have a thousand year storm every thousand years ... practically you can have two in one week.