Houston Flooding

Interesting tweets on Houston flood control from some random dude.

Some excerpts:

In the 90s. Houston was getting large enough that relying on groundwater was starting to cause subsidence problems

— Matt Corbett (@CorbettMatt) August 28, 2017

The powers that be decided (wisely, mostly) to slowly convert all the roads into a giant rain collection network

— Matt Corbett (@CorbettMatt) August 28, 2017

so every time an asphalt road needed to be repaved, it got replaced with curb & gutter concrete w/ big storm sewer underneath

— Matt Corbett (@CorbettMatt) August 28, 2017

I read it on the internet so I know it must be true.