{"id":9469,"date":"2015-05-23T14:55:04","date_gmt":"2015-05-23T14:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9469"},"modified":"2015-05-23T14:55:04","modified_gmt":"2015-05-23T14:55:04","slug":"might-it-be-time-to-examine-flood-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9469","title":{"rendered":"Might it be time to examine flood control?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Is it just me, or are others out there wondering about the quality of our storm-drain system in Amarillo?<\/p>\n

My wife and I have lived here now for slightly more than 20 years. My memory at times is a bit foggy, but I’m pretty sure this is the worst rain event we’ve seen since we moved here from the Gulf Coast — where we used to get a lot of rain<\/em> in a very short period of time.<\/p>\n

The city has its hands full this Memorial Day weekend. We just came back from a grocery run and discovered water had flooded from McDonald Lake, across Coulter. Motor vehicles were stalled as\u00a0motorists tried to slosh their way through the muddy water.<\/p>\n

Us? We were OK, as we drove our big ol’ 3\/4-ton truck through it without any difficulty.<\/p>\n

In our two-decades plus here, this is the first time we’ve seen that much water<\/em> across Coulter.<\/p>\n

The other traditional trouble spots I’m quite certain are disasters this morning.<\/p>\n

Well, once City Hall gets through this situation, I’m hoping the city’s senior administrative staff sits down and has a serious after-action meeting to discuss ways to improve matters for the next big rain event.<\/p>\n

It also might be good for City Manager Jarrett Atkinson and Mayor Paul Harpole to conduct a press conference to explain — in detail — what happened out there and whether the city has any plans afoot to try to correct it. You know, things like drainage construction or perhaps fine-tuning its emergency response — if it’s needed — to help folks cope with what this most unusual weather event.<\/p>\n

It’s been a long time coming. Most of us are quite grateful for the moisture (a term that seems quaint, given the volume of water that’s fallen from the sky).<\/p>\n

Residents of a modern\u00a0American city, though, shouldn’t have to worry about flooding every time\u00a0it pours.<\/p>\n

Or is this what we can expect — all the time?<\/p>\n\n

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Is it just me, or are others out there wondering about the quality of our storm-drain system in Amarillo? My wife and I have lived here now for slightly more than 20 years. My memory at times is a bit foggy, but I’m pretty sure this is the worst rain event we’ve seen since we … Continue reading Might it be time to examine flood control?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[290,308,327,2418,2966,2969],"class_list":["post-9469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-amarillo-city-hall","tag-amarillo-flooding","tag-amarillo-rainfall","tag-jarrett-atkinson","tag-mayor-paul-harpole","tag-mcdonald-lake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}