By way of Patrick Non-White: a series of tweets from Matt Corbett about how flood planning and storm runoff works in Houston.
A Houston floodsplainer:
(caveat, I'm not a pro, just someone interested in how my city works. If a real pro finds an error, please LMK)— Matt Corbett (@CorbettMatt) August 28, 2017
If you click on that first one, you should be able to follow the rest of the (long) thread from there, though you might have to skip over some stuff about cheerleading.
I’m also not an expert, and haven’t lived in Houston for (mumble mumble) years now, but this fits in with what I do know. I especially appreciate his discussion of the evacuate/don’t evacuate decision: it was more than just partisan politics, it also involved differing sets of priorities.
just a different value judgement. Judgement calls are as much about being able to live with a choice being wrong
— Matt Corbett (@CorbettMatt) August 28, 2017