SpiceWare's Blog

I saw some of that in the Austin area recently. Cracks in the earth big enough to lose a foot in.

And you're in the Sugarland/Missouri City area, right? You're used to day-long thunderstorms so heavy you can't drive 'round this time of year. Yeah, pretty crummy.

I'm in Fresno, located on 6 @ 521, it's between Missouri City and Pearland.

 

Yep - normally it's raining so heavy we get flooding. Coastal plains are so flat that it makes it difficult to divert water. Large sections of my neighborhood were set aside for flood control. They've been dug down to hold flood water, those are the easements that I bike in. I think they used the dirt from there to raise up the houses as all the homes are elevated with a gentle slope from the house to the road. It seems to work well as I've often seen the houses in the older neighborhood behind mine with water up to their doors, while at my house I've only ever seen it up to the sidewalk.

 

I'll add some photos of the easements after I ride tonight.

Weird - we got a decent amount of rain yesterday afternoon and when I took the bike out last night the cracks are bigger, and more numerous, than before!

Weird - we got a decent amount of rain yesterday afternoon and when I took the bike out last night the cracks are bigger, and more numerous, than before!

 

Ever water a potted plant where the soil has dried out? The water goes straight through and out the bottom. Rain on dry ground doesn't soak it up, it just erodes it away.