ardly:
A full eclipse and now flooding it must be Nibiru and the End of Days.
Nah - there's boils, frogs, locust all to come yet.
They're trying to clean it up, but they're really only just going through the motions.
. . . and if you're a first-born, I'd be checking my insurance policies, if I were you.
travis_farmer:
what about the raw sewage?
It is a problem. In large Texas cities, like Houston, moving sewage through the city involves "lift stations". Lift stations use large electric pumps. Large electric pumps require electricity. When the electricity fails and it will be days / weeks until service is restored ... The rest is left to your imagination.
Potable water is also a problem. In order to remain sanitary the water has to remain pressurized. The pressure is maintained by large electric pumps (supplemented with water towers).
And another thing - why is it always referred to as "raw sewage"?
There's a cooked variant?
Nah - there's boils, frogs, locust all to come yet.
Well maybe snakes and alligators.
At least people are being sensible and not falling for that silly Chinese Global Warming conspiracy.
Do you think when The Donald is in Houston he will notice the National Guard cannot use the sewage flooded freeways and will consider it might be a good idea, and cheaper in the long run, not to build critical infrastructure where it can flood?
AWOL:
And another thing - why is it always referred to as "raw sewage"?
There's a cooked variant?
Yep. Raw sewage hasnt been treated at all. After its gets treated, its grey water.. or cooked sewage 
Candidate for stupid statement of the week,
Do you think when The Donald is in Houston he will notice the National Guard cannot use the sewage flooded freeways and will consider it might be a good idea, and cheaper in the long run, not to build critical infrastructure where it can flood?
I think you should consider submitting yourself to the next Dunning-Kruger study.
Candidate for stupid statement of the week,
Why is the comment stupid?
Trump cancelled flood protection regulations days before Harvey hit
Trump promised to spend billions on infrastructure projects. He appears to have cancelled the regulations to make it easier to get projects approved without considering that, in the long run, building hospitals etc where they will flood is not smart.
I don't think that agreeing with the American Society of Civil Engineers that the regulations were a good thing means I have delusions of cognitive superiority. In light of Harvey do you think Trump will reinstate the regulations or not?
travis_farmer:
so, if you live in a flood zone, and the hospitals are beyond that, and you have some sort of life-threatening medical emergency. how long do you want to wait for the ambulance to get there, and once there, how long of a ride do you want before you get the needed life saving surgery?infrastructure is placed where it is needed, so that it can be utilized as quickly as needed. and there is a huge difference between a normal flood zone, and the unanticipated storm flood zone.
i agree, if a hospital is placed right on the coast, 2 feet above high-tide, then it is in a dumb location. but i personally have never seen that extreme.
Look at your television. The regulations that Trump rescinded gave agencies three options to establish the appropriate level of flood protection;
- use the best climate science available to inform their decision
- build two feet above the 100-year flood elevation for standard projects and three feet above for buildings like hospitals or evacuation centers
- build to the 500-year flood elevation level
After seeing cities repeatedly flooded why would it not be sensible to keep these regulations for new projects?
Did they go just because they mentioned "climate science"?
It is more expensive to build up ground or raise buildings on stilts but at least you have a facility you can rely on and the cost is far less than losing it at the very time you need it, having to evacuate it and then replace the destroyed equipment and perhaps rebuild.