Houston Flooding
A recent visitor to Houston, IPDG Arie shared a few thoughts on the city with respect to their recent catastrophe.
He shared that Houston, the 4th biggest city in the US, was exposed as a function of being both inland and reasonably flat.
He also shared that, as it gets very hot weather wise, a lot of infrastructure is underground and hence also at risk when flooding occurs.
Given that this event resulted in Christchurch’s total rain falling in a matter of days, the resulting severe flooding was therefore going to result in a major challenge to residents and the huge clean-up that follows.
Our thoughts and prayers go out to the people of Houston at this time.