Reply #8: Considering what happened last year in Atlanta, they really do need to take a hard look at flooding

[haele]

What might not have flooded even in a "100 year deluge" ten years ago may have so much concrete and asphalt around that the water has no where to go but "up" - directed into city and suburban streets by curbs, walls, and housing, where before, it would just run off into the natural channels and dissipate into the ground.
I know it's expensive - the area where the house I used to own got re-degnated as a flood zone because of all the development. Even large backyard lots (which used to be common in that area) used to keep flooding down, but with houses doubling and tripling up on what used to be single lots pretty much everywhere, there's just no soak area anymore; it just goes out into the street and turns into swimming pools.

Haele