Houston flooded...again

What happens when a city has a 100-year flood... 4 times in 20 years?

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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.