Why Did Houston Flood?
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- Hurricane Harvey's rainfall broke continental U.S. records. Here's how cities like Houston can better prepare.
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Building on a swamp at sea level probably wasn't the best idea of all time.
Steven Bringhurst Truth
when a city like Houston, gets that big, it floods, turns to swamp, the to sewer.
Steven Bringhurst although that is very true, I don’t think anyone in the past thought Houston would become as big and spread out as it is. However, it is all our fault for not building or planning appropriately unfortunately. We have recovered and yet still are recovering in specific areas but it doesn’t excuse the truth that we are on wetlands
Port cities have to operate near the coast... just sayin.
Houston is well above sea level, between 50 and 150 feet above. The water drains quickly once it stops raining. The problem is there are only a handful of creeks and bayous to move all the water out of the city. With all this development not enough is soaking into the ground and it is running off into the creeks and bayous, they overflow and flood neighborhoods. Houston also has a poor drainage system in many parts of the city they has not kept up with development.
Houston we have a problem
and it's called; Trump.
Great Cornholio ya cause the almighty trump can control the weather....
hahahahahaha
AwkwardYet cmon man I understand ur way to make light out of the situation but people died not something to joke about
AwkwardYet
Because we got 52" of rain in 4 days....
Andrew Self no you dumbass because the water can’t go anywhere
@@candacechanel2950 No city in the world could sustain fucking 5ft of rain in 5 days fucking dumbass
I fink you got up their nose mifter in the comments.
@@JavierSanchez-dq8ie Mark rivers/bamboo
Sold home in Katy in April and left TX. It's unbelievable the development in the wetlands... and it's not slowing down.
So they had to elevate homes
so why'd you leave Texas? lol
Not Sure who cares, 👋🏻
because it got 50" of rain and it's not on a hill, any city would flood under those circumstances
He's right. Dump 50 inches of rain on Denver and see what happens.
777dingo you would be surprise how floods are regular here in Houston
New York City wouldn't flood with 50 inches of rain because all of the rain would go straight into the oceam
J Gio Sanchez 🤦♂️
I hope that was a facepalm emoji...because that is excactly what I felt when I read his comment.
There were a combination of things that contributed to Houston flooding.
Richmond Harrell you must be a fucking genius! Are you on Donald's Trump Gabinete???
Sergio Hernandez if you're gonna be that sarcastic to him why not be as sarcastic to the video makers since they are the ones over simplifying things
Idylchatter Water was nothing new,the (amount) of water was.
What never gets mentioned in any discussion is the composition of local soils. They are known as Vertisols which are self mulching, highly expansive clays. Bone dry, they can absorb up to 1” of water then become impermeable like concrete as the clays expand. That’s why rice is a good crop here... they hold water.
From Ontario Canada, I hope Houston survives. I wish I could help.
do worry we are
Houston will survive! Houstonians are not quitters! :-) But thanks! I live in Alaska now, and have been crying today, watching drone footage. It will take a long time, but ... well, you can knock a Texan down, but you cannot keep us down!
Matt Brine time for Irma now
Matt Brine Houston water is contaminated czcams.com/video/yLpQ8ohCO_I/video.html
Thanks
Take a lesson from Japan. They have one hell of a flood control system in place.
Land Developer: "We don't need no stinkin' wetlands!"
Left or Right, all officials are always into making $$ with Real Estate developers
Captain Rorvik You're not serious..we the esrth the coastland need wetlands...
Hello Captain, nature might be smelly, but ignoring it will cause more suffering. The land developer is making a good point that doesn't serve you I guess
Wetlands are just that, wetlands. To change wetlands so that people can build near then is like asking for big trouble because wetlands are places of natural catchments of excess water and when you see them low, that's because of times when there is little rain or enough rain that fills these wetlands and around them. But in time when you cop 50+ inches in a day, those lovely wetlands will fill to a capacity that would stretch for miles across the entire lowland. People and their stupid ideas of building near wetlands, lowlands, swamplands, and those greedy developers and estate agents who couldn't careless about what will happen to these suburbs in case of flash floods, they're always after your money, but they also make sure you're not going to be told that you are buying a parcel of land at the 'bottom of a dry lake'. Then when disaster strikes and the dry lake becomes wet lake again, what will happen to all those suburbs caught in flash storms and floods? There you are. Now you understand. Er.. one moment, did I just says 'now you understand'? LMAO! These natural events of flash storms and floods have been going on for millions of years, yes, but at least humans may have been on earth for half a million or more years, you're telling me from such experience of being flooded is new that you don't know about where to build or don't understand how Nature works. I mean, are you that stupid not to know that never build in lowlands, wetlands and swamplands which are anywhere between sea level and million year old hollow depressions where rivers usually flow and lakes or wetland, or swamplands have formed? I also don't understand why choose a plot of land to build a home by a low lake, near wetland and or swamplands when the risks are higher by the fact that there are snakes, crocs, mosquitoes, risk of heavy rain, flash floods, raising water and sinkholes? When you buy a home, what have you got in your mind? Do you listen to greedy sales agents who tell you enough bullshit to brainwash you to make a purchase? Best places to buy a property or build a home is by undulated hills of less step slopes. Stay away from large, yet very long rivers because when these giants fill from flash floods they will raise really high and you will not be able to escape by road.
Advice from Michael C, who lived in flood prone areas of the great Goulburn River in Shepparton, now lives in Melbourne on an elevated hillside for 17 years and no risk of floods despite having had some serious storms over these years.
Chi-Congo WAS wetlands. Is this REALLY progress?
I live in Houston and I am blessed that it didn't flood on my street
Nicole Cortez I didn’t get flooded either? What side of town are you from? I’m curious about what areas did not get flooded
It's all good, people of 2101AD won't know what Florida is
Reasons why:
•Massive Amounts Of Rain
•Near The Coast, Which Means The City Is Low And Easy To Flood
I'm 32 feet above sea level and whoever built my neighborhood here in Webster had a good idea bc we have never flooded.
God Bless everyone in Houston 😔😔
I remember in 2012 Woodstock Virginia, United States. A flood hit us i was 7 years old, being a little girl I didn't understand nothing about a flood. All I remembered was seeing ambulances coming in my neighborhood, and 2 men carrying my family. 1 men was carrying my older brother and I, the other man was carrying my older sister and mother.
My kitty unfortunately passed away or maybe ran away during the flood, we tried taking her but there was no time. But the mother cat survived.
It is so sad 😣 I am Praying for all that lost there homes from to storm, or had to live everything they know behind, I hope everyone is ok. PRAY for the people of Huston Texas
Is ok I’m from Houston and it flooded 2 feet and it did not come in (from north Houston)
I live here in Houston and we had a major storm some years back that was called Allison Allison had nothing on Harvey he came with a vengeance it's definitely something I would never forget it's going to be a year this month since that. Disaster hit Houston
My neighbors dogs are still missing 😢 he was a sleep when it flooded he went to his backyard and his dogs were gone 😭 hope someone found them and is giving them love and care
did they find them?
@@CHRISTICAUTION yes, a happy ending
NOVA . instead of painting a hopeless picture - I propose following solutions:
A) build houses with flood prevention in mind (build in a higher ground (creating higher ground) + waterproof the basements (or no basement at all)
B) create flood dams to protect towns and roads (not a temporarily version plz)
C) dig massive candles to channel water away form city and into rivers.
I am sure we can do better than just look depress every-time that a hurricane is passing by.
Houston already does all of that. A) I have yet to see a basement here, and am more likely to see piered houses in heavy flooding areas. B) The big problem with larger floods is that the overwhelm the flood dam, making the need for a controlled release. I'm talking about major dams too. C)We have what we call bayous. Glorified drainage ditches in town if you ask me. Do a google image search on the Houston bayou system, some are massive. Even with all of that we still flooded, having the dirty side of a hurricane sit over you for days will do that. A city can only build and prepare so much.
Be smart, stop building in flood areas that were originally wetlands. Houston, TX is a mistake.
we have the power and technology to minimize any flood impacts ... why not use it?
FL33T WOOD the same could be said about Mexico City and Venice. Both cities are many hundreds of years old. Never underestimate a people's stubbornness/stupidity when it comes to the place they call home.
I'd say the biggest problem is that all of our bayous converge into one. It's clear since that's the one that's still flooded over a week later as everything drains into it
Okay I've been a Houston area resident most of my life--to me it's simple we got a historical storm and got over 50" of rain in 4 days!! What more needs to be said.
Hmmm... excellent point BUT .. since it does flood so much, even without massive hurricanes, maybe we could come up with a way to deal with the flooding. Maybe. Houston keeps growing but it could go UP instead of OUT! :-) Look at Hong Kong! I guess cause it's cheaper to build outwards? But is it REALLY cheaper?? People say, we wants a yard ... but the "yards" are like nothing! Postage stamp sized lots with McMansions everywhere! Ugh! Houston is my hometown but I still don't want to live there! When I was a kid, we actually had seasons, but now? It's HOT and WET, or warm and wet! LOL No thanks!!
Stop building on wetlands. Houston is a mistake, destroy that disastor city.
It's flat, paved, sits on Beaumont clay.......oh, and they got 52"+ of rain in just a couple of days.
What would an updated video say about Imelda?
Houston Rised up after that with the Astros Winning the CHAMPION SHIP was what we really needed and NOBODY will take that from US.
😢
We have an outstanding drainage systems in Houston, it's simply the sheer amount of water dropped rapidly that caused the flooding.
I once told a co-worker of mine that if New Orleans had gone through this, most of their city would be gone as they are below sea level. Kinda gives you a little perspective, doesn't it?
We are all puling together to do what we can, from where we can, how ever we can. it's beautiful! Don't forget to laugh!
to much concrate -no flooding space
There are actually tons of concrete drainage systems...including an unfathomable network of massive drainage tunnels. Literally some of them reach 30ft wide that i have seen. We have multiple direct drains straight to the coast. (Much faster than the river could provide)
Why government allowed to destroy wetlands ?
majid Ashif - $$$
Because people needed the space and living in a swamp would suck. Washington, DC is built on what use to be swamps. Just need proper drainage and less 4 feet of rain.
Everything's boils down to capitalism 🙄
majid Ashif - I would say it's more corruption than capitalism. True capitalism has checks built into it. But when the government has all the power and takes bribes to look the other way, that's just plain old corruption. It happens in all forms of government and economic framework.
Murica
This is just gonna bring us back together and make us stronger✊🏻
Every house can have a well where rooftop water is stored so when Rains happens, first well can get filled, you can use well water in summer for all kinds of things.
Climate never stops changing..
Sorry not buying it.I think your science has been corrupted by the left.Much like they have corrupted journalism.Science is heading for the same fate.I think you and our scientists are very narcissistic in thinking our species can change..one way or another our climate.Our planet is way way more resilient than you think and can handle anything the likes of man can do.
The problem isn't that the climate is changing. The problem is that it's changing at an exponential rate so dramatic that most life on Earth won't be able to evolve or adapt quick enough to survive. Again and agian, the evidence points directly at humans add the cause. The little bit of CO2 we have been adding to the atmosphere is tipping the scale, throwing the environment off balance, and we just keep adding more. There will be a mass extinction if we continue at this rate of imbalance. And we can't just one day decide to change once it gets too hot. There is about a 100 year lag. What we do today won't take any effect until 100 years from now, this is why we have to take action now.
Dude, the idea that practically all the experts from around the world have been conspiring together and fabricating evidence in order to gain money doesn't make sense. There is a lot (and I mean a lot) more money in producing evidence against the climate change theory [or the theory of evolution]. Why would these highly intelligent individuals and groups choose to lie for less money? What is the motive?
Honestly, it makes perfect sense...
Option #1 - There ~is~ climate change -
"Yes, Sir, we've found evidence of climate change, and we'll need more money to study it..
What's that, you ask? Why yes, yes we just need to do this, this, and this...
And yes, I just happen to have a company alllll ready to go...to ~help~ you get this solved...
I'll get that contract all written up for you, just sign here, and I'll need a check...
Option #2 - There ~isn't~ climate change -
"No sir....There's really nothing we need to do, because we really aren't noting any substantial changes... Climate changed long before we ever got here, and will keep changing long after we're all gone....
What's that? You mean I'm done? You don't need me any more?? But I have a family to feed...
I neeeeed your money..... Wait! wait! I was wrong! There IS climate change!! And you need me!!
Noooooooo!!!! I'm meltingggggggggg......
So yeah.... There's a reason that you can get people to say there's climate change, and they'll be happy to tell you they know how to fix it for you.... (please see Al Gore)
They simply don't make any money if there isn't.... Just sayin'....
Please explain the Ice Age.... Please explain the Great Flood of 1900... Please explain the Great storm off the Florida coast of 1715, when all the Spanish ships were lost... Climate has been changing long before we got here, and will change long after we're all just dust... Climate has been changing for, quite literally, billions of years...
Unprecedented? What about tropical storm Allison in 2001? Very similar to Harvey, but much more widespread damage, and a lot more people drowned in the Houston area (21 if I remember correctly - with Harvey I don't believe there were any drownings in the Houston area). Also Harvey was much more hit and miss, affecting pockets of neighborhoods, a lot of Houston area only had flooding in the streets with none in homes. A lot of the flooding with Harvey in homes only occurred after they opened the dam to release the water from the reservoir. Allison was much more widespread. As usual, too much propaganda passed off as news.
Yeah, most of the flooding was street and partial yard level. It’s unfortunate, but the water had to be released from the damns to avoid failure. I remember watching the guy making the announcement. He was very somber and said that his house would be one of the ones flooded by the release procedure.
My house is less than 15 minutes away from downtown and the streets were flooded with water high up to your knees. It was unbelievable, crazy. Thankfully my house and family members were okay
Same I live in Webster 30 minutes away down south and we stayed dry, we have some properties surrounding us that soaked up all the water so that even though were 32ft above sea level, we stayed dry.
Watching this in preparation for hurricane Florence. My city is where it's supposed to make landfall as a cat4 this week. 😕 our city was flooded out like this from Hurricane Matthew (but wasn't on the news like this) so we are very concerned.
Build houses in a natural wetland,this is what you get,just sayin'
Building houses by a fault line is stupid too(California). Building in a city that's going to be underwater(New York)Is stupid. Building houses un tornado Alley is stupid. Just shut up bro. Houston is strong
This a load of CRAP! No area can sustain 40+" of rain and not flood. Also why woould you use weather modification on your own citizens and cause billions of dollars in damages. The Houston-Galveston region has a flood control agency, they have created hundreds of retention ponds and reservoirs all over the area. They also made new businesses and subdivision to build retention ponds to offset the new developements. There are several large bayous to help carry the water to Galveston bay. I live a 1/4 mile from major bayou and thanks to 2 large retention ponds near by the bayou never overtoped. It crested 1 foot below the top. The Houston region is quite large and spread out. When the video mentions the other 2 floods they did not effect the whole region but a small area. My house did not flood and the streets remained clear. You can twist news stories to suit your agenda. If you not live in the area it is hard to understand.
Chris Campbell thank you!
Thanks Chris! True to form, PBS never misses a chance to promote their climate change BS.
i noticed at the end, service announcement paid for by one of the Koch brothers funds. 🤔
Thank you.
Months later seeing these pictures still makes me sad, this is my only home.
i sent flowers to houston but you said you didnt need em ....lol
420jerrett lol what
Lalaforreal Forrealforreal it's a reference to rae sremmerds song "black beatles" I'm the beginning it says " sent flowers but you said you didn't need em"
Logan Garcia I forgot that lyric. Remember now.
Clay .C. Tf are you talking about
We go from Houston to climate change right st 1:38 Propagandaaaaaa
I’d really like to know how full the reservoir’s were prior to Harvey. I took my first drive ever up Westheimer parkway 2 weeks prior to Harvey, and it was flooded pretty good from heavy rain a few days prior to that, for instance there were trees that were a foot deep in water. I also did some mountain biking at the anthills(which is right beside the buffalo bayou, which is we’re at least some of the barker reservoir drains into) at least twice in the two weeks before Harvey. The water level did not seem high or fast at either time, and I have seen it very high before and fast moving as I now rent an apartment right next to buffalo bayou. I suspect that they waited too long to release the reservoirs and then had to release them when it was way too late, I also wonder if they released any of the water from 2 weeks prior to Harvey.
What would we do without tragic twinkly piano music to inspire our sympathies and emotion.
please show this to Mr. TRUMP for whom America is first, Mother Nature last...
Nahe M Trump and his supporters don't believe in science, so they will call it fake news and move on.
Narata
Hahaha! Yea, that's it exactly.
The Earth is Flat
haha, was searching for a flat Earth comment, on a globe why will water stall in one place, oh they ll say it is because of the houses around there :D
Laura Mac it is not flat
Why don't you draw me a map of this flat Earth. You know one on which distance and bearing have any relationship what so ever to observed reality. No flattard has ever been able to, you know why? Because you're all fucking morons.
Calm down it was a joke
+Jack Hunter,. it's in the bible,. that must mean the bible is a joke after all.
As a trucker whenever I got a load to haul in or out of Houston and just a little rain would swamp the highways and streets downtown and suburbs especially industrial areas would be affected.
I used to live in Sandalwood/Lakeview for just over 16 years from 1963 to 1979. If I had a dollar for every time Buffalo Bayou and Hibury Street flooded, I'd be a multi-millionaire. I understand many Sandalwood homes had water coming to within inches of their front and back doors!!!
Same with the Gessner / Briar Forest homes. Had to ditch a car on more than one occasion around there,
The problem is the type of people in office and the people that vote for them. Texans aren't big believers in climate change or green solutions. Maybe this will help change their attitudes.
literally all they say is " its always flooded here". i mean they have a fucking sea in their backyard... HOW does that not tell you something is wrong.
Simple ... Horrific zoning allowed by your corrupt politicians. The rich got the higher ground ... Hmmmmm
The FPV Life are you fucking stupid
“Hey Patrick what am I now?” Uh the Atlantic Ocean? “ “no I’m Texas” “what’s the difference?
Well done.
Thanks trump.
Last time I checked Trump can't control the weather
+Jack Hunter, the last time i checked Trump couldn't control anything,...
Great Cornholio
😂 damm
Obama built that...right?
It was a geoengineered hurricane. Check out YT vid "weatherwar 101". All info there.
Oh horse manure!
Geo-Engineering may have been done to help lessen the hurricane
Gerry the moron is a moron. Got your Super Male Vitality at hand Gerry?
Jack Knight, Gerry thinks the NWO, or the Jews, or the Illuminati, or the Bilderbergs (hard to say which) have a secret weather machine they will kill us all with. He's a fucking loon!
Frank Kelley Shut your white ass up broke boy
Trees, wooded areas are coming down at an alarming rate to make more commercial, residential neighborhoods. So much development without a thought to the possible consequences.
I remember the memorial day floods it was really the night before memorial day and we were in a 1990 jeep Cherokee we put it in 4×4 and were still being dragged by water
The punch that don't kill me it makes me stronger Houston Texans will be back better and stronger than before
This exactly what’s keeping me from moving down there DAMN I wanted to move there but I can’t risk it
Dallas doesn't flood.
@@notsure6187 damn this was two years ago lol guess what ? I’m in Dallas now lol I just moved here this pass summer
Such a dramatic way of saying "we need dirt"
1) To construct extreme big watershed only urban area around Houston city 2) To move entire Houston city to north into inland 200 miles.
My thoughts and prayers go out to all the flood victims, People by the cost lines must get to higher ground asap!
Can't believe it's coming on 6 years. I grew up in Houston and even tho the drainage is good, the city is flat as a pancake and covered in concrete. When you get that much rain in such a short time, there's little to be done. I owned 3 different homes there from the late 70s into the 90s and always carried flood insurance, even tho it wasn't required. A decent rainfall and streets are always under water. The worst thing about living in a flat place is how long it takes the water to subside. On the upside: there isn't a city in the country that could come together and rebuild as fast as Houston!! The "can do" Texas spirit lives on there.
I hope we don't go through something like this again
When a new neighborhood is developed remove dirt from the path of the streets and place it where the houses are built making the streets a waterway in the event of a hurricane. It won’t eliminate all damage or flooding but could reduce some damage to houses.
Because we got a ton of rain, bayous have been dammed up to prevent downstream flooding, and the county cut spending for keeping bayous cleaned out decades ago. The bayou by my house is not nearly as deep as it used to be 30 years ago and it's got trees growing in it.
I remember that day my house almost flooded I was young so I was scared but lucky somehow it did not flood
Apperantly We We're Not Ready
Bruh I was sopost to move to Huston a week and a half ago now I got to wait to next month's
Move there and get a great job in construction .. in TWO months!
When you dump megatons of steam into a storm system you create massive flooding. Thats why all the Cooling towers at every single power plant and chemical plant were going full blast as the storm passed over. They seeded it with hot water.
This reminds me of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.
It rained 52 inches in two days here. Thats why. This report brought to you by people who live in New York. Painful.
I'd give anything to go back and experience my house being flooded in Harvey again. Cause my wife would still be with me. Just lost her in December. Harvey flooding our house was nothing compared to losing my wife.
I have a feeling Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia are next😱
And my country is busy experiencing droughts.
Flooding-prone areas should have building codes adjusted radically. Traditional single-family wood houses should be gradually replaced by high-rise concrete multi-family buildings in Houston. Before that, from a tech point of view, land/marine double-use cars can be manufactured much easier than the automated cars, and aluminum-based building materials (columns, sheets, spongy filling) can be used in place of wood-based materials to build water-proof 1st floor of single houses in areas prone to flooding.
We definitely did not learn a lesson here. Five new houses on my street so far this year. 😢
if EVERY building had a rain water tank .... how much would have not added to this problem
I am so sorry I am cry now 😭😭😭😩😩😩🚣🚣🚣 all can do it I believe in I .
The grab and greed of developers certainly did not help paving over vast areas that could absorb heavy rainfall.
In addition: you should see the look on Denzel's face: SYNCOPY. Up Down.
Build a huge manmade canal in the middle of Texas size of the Empire state building that wide may be it will flood no more the water got to go somewhere have it going straight out to the ocean
After Katrina, who would've thought! We really thought we'd seen the worst.
Well
Gotta say, it was fun
Nature is nature, you do what ya gotta do, make the best of it when it happens
Nothing you can do about it
We got 20" in a few hours that Friday night. It didn't flood where i live but any city would flood if you got 50" of rain over a weekend
I didn't and I'm 32ft above seal level , we have green areas like the oilfield and cow fields that soaked up all the water plus good drainage. I live in Webster
Omg l really fell so sad for them😭😭😢
Very good perspective, good music and composition. Some people don't like the conclusions in the video. Wish you the best and all those affected. Things can be done and untill then real estate prices will collapse. Tornado's will come more regularly cause air and water will get warmer for at least a few decades unless a new ice age is on its way. Wind hasn't destroyed so much, flooding can be managed by taking the steps you concluded. It would have been better not to develop this area, but politicians and builders and the public loves money and beaches nearby
Been a lot cheaper to dig two deep canals to expedite the water back to the gulf. Houston is 80 ft above sea level.
Interesting
we moved from Houston in '77 - there was talk of Houston's SINKING then. Well, guess what. It sank.,,Now it's a really large frog pond.
Nothing will change, it will only get worse
My hometown has lost most of the houses, businesses, transportation, and jobs but didn't lose all hope.
was it crystal beach or somewhere on the bolivar peninsula?
So much money is going into the defense budget that there simply isn't enough for infrastructure. And even the defense budget is completely paid for by increasing the national debt.
Developing infrastructure on a known flood plain was grossly irresponsible to begin with. The damage to households here is immeasurable! Texas is a big wide open state, why does everyone want to live at the conference of multiple waterways?
They've paved paradise and put in a parking lot! Ooh lalala ooh!!
Keep in mind... Houston is 105 foot above sea level...not 1 or 2 feet. Over 4ft of rainfall in a few days...im sorry unless you live on a mountain side or the top of a rolling hill .. youre gonna flood. I live in Houston, i work in chemical plants in Pasadena, when ever river breaches its banks... due to northern rainfall on top of what we had..there is no chance.
Looks like the next big storm is about a week away.
FYI - streets and highways flooding is what is supposed to happen in Houston. The roads are built to act as river channels, so when people panic and say “interstate 10 is flooded!”, know that is what should be happening. The bigger problem is that a shocking amount of rain was received in a short period of time. The damns didn’t break and the road flood systems worked as intended.
absolutely insane what natural disasters can do to our homes
I'll take some of your water to us in BC
Lifting houses sounds really expensive, given how much has been urbanized. I don't think urban planners will invest in that