Harvey will show why we need "big" gov't

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7. Agreed but it goes even deeper than that.

Many of those regulations that people complain about are there to mitigate the effects of nature. Especially the ones that are hated by developers like Trump.

Regulations require a certain amount of drainage to be the responsibility of the developer. Regulations require maintaining wetlands that help attenuate flooding. Regulations require developers to get the permission of a Community before they build something egregious.

The point is that without all of those regulations, these kinds of impacts would be seen even in a smaller storm.

The problem is basically that this storm exceeds every design standard imaginable. I design drainage in a very rainy part of the Country and this would overwhelm anything done here.