It's really a Texas thing to build homes and businesses on bayous and creeks for some reason.
Its really getting pretty ridiculous tbh.
Modern technology can only do so much, and we could have the very best drainage systems, but any semblance of logic is thrown out the door when it comes to city planning. Flooding a car or house feels like such a norm now, I think people just view it as an inconvenience, rather than a deterrent.
Someone once told me if you own a home down here. "If you dont flood, eventually your foundation will give you issues".
Just answered my question. But there has to be SOMETHING they can do to prevent this sh!t. I don't even know what a bayou is. It's a swamp, right? They can't just build dams to divert the water certain directions in case of heavy rains. Remember, I literally don't know nothing about this type of sh!t and I'm truly just asking. Sh!t seems like it'd be preventable especially for a city that size with that many resources?
A bayou is just a Southern term for a small river. I read way back that Houston has more miles of bayous than N.O. Dont know how accurate that is, but I wouldnt be surprised.
The history and attitude of the city is really what it boils down to. Houston didnt come into its own until after hurricane hit Galveston in the early 1900s. EVERYTHING shifted to the city further north, and the Ship Channel was built to make the Houston Port. Until then, the city was just a small Gulf Coast city that was a New Orelans light in almost every way. After the Oil Boom, we just blew up. Bulldozed and raped the land to make way for everything. Our bayous were some of the most polluted rivers in the 70s and 80s. And the city's attitude was build, build, build.
When our Addikks Dam and other flood control measures were built, it was meant for the population and the layout of of bayous at the time. We did such a crummy job 60 years ago, we even paved a ton of the bayous. Took out the trees and build houses next to them, using the bayous as drainage ditches.
So what we have is a city built around a landscape, with a population, and the conditions that no other major city except maybe New Orleans deals with. But they're right next to the Mississippi. We're peppered by these bayous, surrounded by concrete. No drainage system can prevent water from not going anywhere.
sh!t's interesting and scary at the same time. I don't wanna move to Houston no more 
