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To: Texan5

Been wondering if the roads were OK - No washouts or low-water crossing problems on the way back and forth?

I know your house is high up above normal water levels.


32 posted on 05/28/2015 12:03:08 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

No wash outs, but most of the low water crossings were impassable for several hours. The counties to the east toward Austin were hardest hit-for the most part, they have no restrictions on development in their rural areas and so are heavily populated, especially the waterfronts of rivers.

That is a lot of people and buildings in an area that will predictably flood big-time every 15-20 years-not a smart place to build a neighborhood, no matter how scenic it may be.

This county is pretty much all rural, has a population of only around 19k, and has a moratorium on commercial development and a 5 acre minimum for a single residence well and septic-two of the counties next to it have similar restrictions, and they didn’t have heavy property losses, either.


33 posted on 05/28/2015 12:36:36 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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