Army Corps of Engineers opened floodgates at the Addicks and Barker reservoirs during the rains associated with Harvey. Not only are we ignoring the same magnitude of risk in our metropolitan area, but we even are engaging in a supreme denial of reality by proposing to build a fancy new park for hundreds of millions of dollars in the Trinity River floodway.Ībout three weeks ago in the Houston Press, Dianna Wray wrote a great piece about what happened to Houston’s fancy Central-Park-wannabe park along the Buffalo Bayou after the U.S. The answer is that Houston, bent on growth and money, didn’t want to hear the trumpet. Houston also is learning why that truth wasn’t trumpeted loud enough for all to hear. Army Corps of Engineers would have to be spilled open one day and that, when that happened, people would die and property would be destroyed. Houston is learning, to its dismay, that government officials and politicians knew decades ago that two vast reservoirs built 70 years ago by the U.S. Everything awful that happened to Houston was known beforehand. As terrible and heartrending as the impact of Hurricane Harvey was on the people of Houston, the sick backstory was almost worse.
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