{"id":14081,"date":"2017-08-29T11:49:15","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T15:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=14081"},"modified":"2017-08-29T11:49:15","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T15:49:15","slug":"houstons-flooding-shows-what-happens-when-you-ignore-science-and-let-developers-run-rampant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2017\/08\/houstons-flooding-shows-what-happens-when-you-ignore-science-and-let-developers-run-rampant\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston\u2019s flooding shows what happens when you ignore science and let developers run rampant"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Much of the flood damage from #HurricaneHarvey to #Houston is due to direct disregard for wetlands preservation. How does saving the beavers and pond critters save you from floods? Well, it probably doesn’t completely, but paving over the wetlands, which are awesome at absorbing flood waters in their natural state, creates a big, big problem when it comes to a major storm like this. Flood waters have nowhere to go…no place to absorb them…no buffer zone, except the Houston Underground and everybody’s basement.
\nSo hey…let’s have less regulations, and allow people to keep building in river valleys and on lake shores. Let’s run pipelines through everywhere and pave over everything as fast as possible. Yeah, OK.
\nLook, it’s not just about oil spills and saving the owls…it’s about building smart, and with forethought and responsibility. It’s about loss of life and property, that could’ve been prevented with some educated planning, rather than unbridled urban sprawl.
\nAnd ps. It’s about #ClimateChange.<\/p>\n

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Much of the flood damage from #HurricaneHarvey to #Houston is due to direct disregard for wetlands preservation. How does saving the beavers and pond critters save you from floods? Well, it probably doesn’t completely, but paving over the wetlands, which are awesome at absorbing flood waters in their natural state, creates a big, big problem […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[14,480,456,132,429],"tags":[523,159,33,530,552],"class_list":["post-14081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-facebook","category-jamie-gray","category-news","category-shared-link","tag-blog","tag-facebook","tag-jamie-gray","tag-news","tag-shared"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9882,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2016\/10\/clowns-flood-the-streets-of-nyc-but-not-for-the-reason-you-think\/","url_meta":{"origin":14081,"position":0},"title":"Clowns flood the streets of NYC but not for the reason you think","date":"October 17, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Can these clowns surprise unsuspecting New Yorkers with a dose of love? #NYC #clownshttp:\/\/on.mash.to\/2e1r2rZ","rel":"","context":"In "blog"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":14639,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2017\/10\/john-oliver-federal-flood-program-is-trapping-vulnerable-homeowners\/","url_meta":{"origin":14081,"position":1},"title":"John Oliver: Federal Flood Program Is Trapping Vulnerable Homeowners","date":"October 31, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"#FloodInsurance. 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