As i know a lot of the members on this forum are from the USA, I was wondering if you could provide some engineering opinions on the texas floods, and perhaps we could even discuss some opinions on what may have reduced the impact. (I did think of posting this in the climate change thread, but that part of the site is terrifying!)
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Texas Floods
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I have not looked at the issue in any depth, I'm in no way familiar with that part of the country, nor am I able to comment on contributing factors, such as slope of grade or surface roughness changes, or drainage area and local storage means to reduce the risk in the future. Anyone here familiar with the region and able to comment?
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I did see something on linkedin stating that the summer camp was built within flood zones which is an obvious issue, but feel that these floods were a true definition of "flash" and my question is more around why they happened and how (if) it could have been prevented and what the likelihood of reoccurrence is
I also saw on facebook a tinfoil hat blaming trump for cloudseeding - (if this is the case he must be onto something as I do not believe cloud seeding is that good and generally a 10-20% increase on expected rains. Could this percentage increase have been the last straw? )
I also saw on facebook a tinfoil hat blaming trump for cloudseeding - (if this is the case he must be onto something as I do not believe cloud seeding is that good and generally a 10-20% increase on expected rains. Could this percentage increase have been the last straw? )
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