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we can't really get on the freeways and
go anywhere we have about a half dozen
family friends that have had to evacuate
these are two-story houses that they've
just kind of walked out of
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we live on the Gulf Coastal Plain the
coastal prairies the wetlands everything
that was here before us if it was built
to flood we've paved over a lot of those
habitats that provide a service in terms
of soaking up floodwaters there's
nowhere for this water to go other than
to flood out into homes and into the
community and such
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we have higher evaporation which have
poor water in the atmosphere and it's
got to go somewhere and so if you start
having torrential rainstorms
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the more green space we can get out
there the better it is the problem is
it's very difficult to take these
develop properties and turn them back in
the green field as a region we're gonna
have to make some tough decisions I
think about how we decide to develop in
the future our challenge is how do we
deal with those floods and you know what
mechanisms do we put in place to make
sure that we keep people out of harm's
way
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