Featured When it rains, let it pour – straight into a rain barrel (Jill Carroll – Houston Chronicle, 5/27/16) “If recent weather patterns persist, those of us living in the greater Houston area will have more water than we know what to do with. Most of that water will run off houses, streets and parking lots and into storm drains,…
Featured Climate change, runaway development worsen Houston floods (Frank Bajak – Seth Borenstein – The Columbus Dispatch, 5/18/2016) “With clay soil and tabletop-flat terrain, Houston has endured flooding for generations. Its 1,700 miles of man-made channels struggle to dispatch storm runoff to the Gulf of Mexico. Now the nation’s fourth-largest city is being overwhelmed with more frequent and more destructive…
Featured Threats to prairie show tension between growth, flood protection (Mike Snyder – Houston Chronicle, 5/16/2016) “Imagine a sponge. Now imagine that you had access to something that would make this sponge – an inherently absorbent object – many times more absorbent. Something that supercharged its capacity to soak up and hold liquid. That’s a fair description of the grass…