What happens when a city has a 100-year flood... 4 times in 20 years?
Category
🗞
NewsTranscript
00:00We're designing for a 100-year storm, we're designing for 13 inches of rain in 24 hours.
00:12A 100-year storm, a 100-year storm, a 100-year storm.
00:20Rainfall rates of 8 inches in 3 hours, so this is just unprecedented.
00:25I've never seen anything like this in my life.
00:28History being made here in Houston.
00:35Sixteen and seventeen inches of rain within a 24-hour period.
00:38Never seen water this high.
00:40Overwhelmed by historic flooding.
00:43Four to six inches.
00:47Like I've really never seen.
00:48So historic, historic, historic.