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                            success: function(){
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</script><p>For the last two years,&nbsp;Pro Publica and&nbsp;The Texas Tribune have been cooperating on <a href="https://projects.propublica.org/houston-cypress/" target="_blank">a series of stories</a> about Texas and its lack of preparedness for this kind of catastrophe. For those stories, reporters interviewed a battery of scientists who told them the same things scientists have been telling reporters and the world for at least a quarter-century.</p><p>We have talked about it here because, for the last 20 years, the old elite in Dallas pushed a project that flew in the face of the known science on flood control. A new, younger, more environmentally sophisticated leadership team in the city just killed that project, the Trinity toll road, but we still dwell among the shadows of the old regime and its claptrap flood-control system. </p><aside class="pullquote">For the last 20 years, the old elite in Dallas pushed a project that flew in the face of the known science on flood control. <ul class="socials ai-socials pq-socials">
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</li> </ul></aside><p>The basic science is known, nailed down, not controversial. It is the basis for a national policy and philosophy in the Netherlands called &ldquo;Living with Water.&rdquo; This science is news again every two years or so in this country only because nobody here ever believes it or acts on it. </p><p>Our nation has ignored science, and it has done so at the peril of exactly what we see unfolding in Houston. People here and in metropolitan areas all across the country are fools if they believe they are in any way immune from what Houston is suffering today. We are all connected in this.</p><p>In fact, in the days ahead, watch closely what happens with dams and reservoirs both here and in Houston. I haven&rsquo;t seen any public discussion yet of the fact that Dallas is preparing for rain here by releasing large volumes of water from its reservoirs, sending that water downriver on the Trinity toward Houston. More on that, maybe, in the days ahead.</p><p>Meanwhile &mdash; and for the sake of getting the conversation going &mdash; let&rsquo;s stipulate to something odd. Let&rsquo;s agree to ignore half of the scientific picture, which has to do with global warming and the effect that warming seas have on storm generation. </p><div class="ads middle placeholder" data-vmg-ad="Middle" data-vmg-format="lazy"></div><p>It&rsquo;s a lot to ignore. After all, the fact that the Gulf of Mexico has been warming is a simple matter of measurement, and the fact that a warmer gulf gins up bigger storms is a simple question of physics. </p><p>But let&rsquo;s steer clear of that side of the issue because anything to do with climate change tends to push people&rsquo;s ideological buttons, and then reason is out the window, curiosity is dead, the conversation is over and there will never be another Thanksgiving Day dinner. We can&rsquo;t have that.</p><div class="img-box ">
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<!-- /.img-box --><p>The side of the question we ought to be able to talk about &mdash; and the side that was so relevant here in our 20-year debate over building a new expressway inside our flood-control system &mdash; doesn&rsquo;t necessarily depend on climate change. This piece is entirely about population growth, land use policy and sprawl.</p><p>The<a href="http://dallasobserver.com/news/flood-money-6402216" target="_blank">&nbsp;first story <i>The Dallas Observer</i> published </a>about the Trinity toll road, on January 22, 1998, talked about a national White House study usually called &ldquo;the Galloway report&rdquo; after Gerald E. Galloway, a former academic dean of West Point and chairman of the commission that produced the report in 1994. </p><p>The big news in<a href="https://www.floods.org/PDF/Sharing_the_Challenge.pdf%20" target="_blank"> the Galloway report</a>, based on a global review of scientific and engineering data, was this: All of the money the United States had paid for massive public works to control flooding over the previous half-century not only had failed to improve flood safety at all, but the spending and the big public works projects actually were making flooding much worse.</p><p>The Galloway report was no global warming screed. Like the Dutch national policy based on many of the same findings, it dealt almost entirely with land use and population growth. Or to put it in more accessible terms, the 'burbs.</p><p>And to simplify even more, the basic finding of the report could be expressed as a popular line from an old Broadway musical: &ldquo;The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain.&rdquo; According to the Galloway report, the rain that nature visits upon us must fall mainly upon vast, permeable areas of soil that are capable of sponging it up. The planet just can&rsquo;t handle the volumes of rain unleashed from the skies any other way.</p><div class="ads middle placeholder" data-vmg-ad="Middle" data-vmg-format="lazy"></div><p>Rivers and streams are mere overflow mechanisms, like rain gutters at the edges of a roof. When we shut off the sponging mechanism of the soil by capping and hardening it with rooftops and concrete, we begin to increase the volumes of runoff by a steep geometric progression.</p><p>And then we build stuff to try to squeeze the water even more. Push it over here with a levee. Stop it there and pile it up behind a dam. Tell nature what to do with her water.</p><aside class="pullquote">Someday, Mother Nature comes back to survey her lost terrain, sneers at the ditches and dikes that mankind has scribbled across the land, and takes it all back in one voracious, roaring bite. <ul class="socials ai-socials pq-socials">
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</li> </ul></aside><p>The Galloway report showed how those kinds of public works projects goose up a bad game more quickly by facilitating faster sprawl and more development. All of a sudden, according to the claims of local politicians and people making money off sprawl, vast new territories have been rendered safe from flooding by each newly completed project. So more previously permeable soil gets capped off and sealed, and that algorithm of disaster gets kicked up another notch.</p><p>The lie in all of this is Harvey. Someday, Mother Nature comes back to survey her lost terrain, sneers at the ditches and dikes that mankind has scribbled across the land, and takes it all back in one voracious, roaring bite.</p><p>The only answer &mdash; what the Dutch began doing decades ago &mdash; is to make a deal with nature. OK, Mother, we will give you back these vast, muddy plains that will be left forever soggy and permeable, undeveloped, in other words, if you will let us protect these dense urban centers.</p>
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