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Water, Water, Everywhere - NOT
Jul. 22nd, 2014 08:05 amI've always lived a good distance from the Trinity River, which snakily winds through all of the Dallas-Fort Worth area (and why these "towns" grew up here in the first place). The last time I saw it flood was when I was a young girl. The Army Core of Engineers has been working on it ever since the 1949 flood, well-known in Fort Worth history as the flood that took out the first two floors of the Montgomery Ward building.
(That building, by the way, survived the floods only to be structurally hit by the 2000 Fort Worth tornado, which again it managed to survive, and is now a really great shopping and living plaza. It was unknown at the time if the building would still be able to stand or would require demolition. It's like the building that never dies. I imagine fire will be it's next big test of time.)
Either way, I keep wondering when the Trinity will flood again. It's only a matter of time. The engineers have done their best to prevent smaller, more often flooding, but that doesn't change the fact that it's still a full-sized river, so it's quite destined to flood again - you know, once we stop being in a major drought. :-/
Speaking of droughts - I'm trying to decide if the Kazakhstan dam was a good idea or not.
Anyway, this post has been brought to you by this awesome video of an arroyo filling up from a flash flood. I picture in my mind the guy getting the images and then thinking to himself, "Well, crap. I was supposed to be going to grandma's house across the street and totally forgot about that. Oops."
(That building, by the way, survived the floods only to be structurally hit by the 2000 Fort Worth tornado, which again it managed to survive, and is now a really great shopping and living plaza. It was unknown at the time if the building would still be able to stand or would require demolition. It's like the building that never dies. I imagine fire will be it's next big test of time.)
Either way, I keep wondering when the Trinity will flood again. It's only a matter of time. The engineers have done their best to prevent smaller, more often flooding, but that doesn't change the fact that it's still a full-sized river, so it's quite destined to flood again - you know, once we stop being in a major drought. :-/
Speaking of droughts - I'm trying to decide if the Kazakhstan dam was a good idea or not.
Anyway, this post has been brought to you by this awesome video of an arroyo filling up from a flash flood. I picture in my mind the guy getting the images and then thinking to himself, "Well, crap. I was supposed to be going to grandma's house across the street and totally forgot about that. Oops."
