America is a first world coun-

>America is a first world coun-

try.

>36 inches of rain in 2 days

name a place on the planet that could handle that.

Lewisville Texas could

It's too first world. kinda weird saying that about Houston but they got like 6 million people and most of it is covered by concrete and pavement

Dude, anywhere that gets that much rain is gonna flood. We copped something similar in Brisbane, Australia about 6 years ago. No amount of planning is going to mitigate a flood of this sort of magnitude.

And yet our third world countrys ass is worth more than every other country on the planet

>Lewisville Texas

get back to me when that actually happens there

You would never expect my driveway to flood.
Two days ago it was an outlet for a river.

He's a dumbass.
I'm close to Lewisville, Texas and that place is such a shit hole it can't even handle the hood.

Well this is fourchinz.
I figured he was lying. Also as a Texan, it's a well known shithole.

This.
Its cheaper to deal with the damage of that one monster flood once in a decade than invest billions in a super overkill drainge system that you may be not see in use in a life time. Its fucked up, but thats how shit works.

Do you even know what the definition of a first world country is user?

All of Japan.

UAE is worth more. It just that we use to be at one point and now the rest of the world keeps putting their hands out and liberals keep wanting to put money into it. Remember we have a multi trillion dollar deficit. Other then the American people, China is the one we owe the most to.

As a non-texan not really caring about how many millimeters of water on a Taiwanese crocheting board; how is Odessa TX in general?

Weeb.

I've never been. Bay area here.

guess again laddie

Actual answer.

Anywhere in southeast Asia during monsoon season.

without flooding?

Only tokyo dipshit

banda aceh, no worse for wear

Yeah I suppose that's part of the system rilly.

Well, your president said climate change is a chinese hoax

tough shit

The Ocean

Climate change is a Chinese hoax

...

He's got you there.

>As costal US areas develop a monsoon season.

That's from the Boxing Day Tsunami. Not a tropical storm.

i stand corrected.

hehe

First of all hoe, Lewisville is on Vista Ridge. That water would just be lifted into lake Lewisville or fall into Coppell.

I think if that much rain fell in India you'd be counting the dead in the low hundreds of thousands.

thank you, i needed this chuckle.
>sign in captcha "AUSTIN"

So the fucking Ocean is more advanced than the US

>Climate change is a
paid rhetorical slogan

The best part is that the red states will see the most negative effects from it. We can add that one to the list of ways in which the retards continually vote for their own demise.

>hurricanes didn't occur until after globowl warning began

Phillipines after getting its shit licked by typhoon Haiyan. No where in asian deals well with natural disasters. Ive been a part of four HADR efforts here and even advanced countries like japan are woefully unprepared.

Not this big.
People used to be like "oh a hurricane, I'll probably be fine," and they were fine.
Now they're like "oh a hurricane, I'll probably be fine," and then they die.

>mfw its the liberal cities that get wiped out
>mfw mostly transplants from commiefornia get btfo
All according to kekaiku

just ignore the retards that think global warming is anything but the seasons changing.

fucking flat earthers and "lick the back of your hand and it smells like pussy" dipshits are in the same fucktard category.

user the self-proclaimed value

o rly

dumb as fuck
thx for kek

It's true tho

(((((Nothing ever in any nation no matter how wealthy goes out of date))))

The Netherlands.

Sahara Desert

without flooding?

>the ocean

was already funny enough.

>most of it is covered by concrete and pavement

That's it's own while issue.
Development completely changes the natural drainage and flow of water.
Engineers try to figure out how o deal with it but they don't really know until it's put to a real world test because it's just too big and complicated.
You can easily create as many new flood areas as you eliminate.

Last August Obama put in place a bill to dedicate more money to preparation for floods and hurricanes. In January Trump trashed it to save money. But at least America is going to be great again soon.

Yup, we teach the rest of the world how to defend theirselves from flooding.

Antarctica

People study this shit tho
It helps to have a lake nearby, watersheds and shit

Fake news

>America is going to be great again

we were never less than great.

No it cant you fucking retard parts of Lewisville flooded a few years ago.

>6 million
Don't over exaggerate

Best time for Trump to push his infrastructure reforms and projects is right now. This is the shit he campaigned about. He literally called US infrastructure third world and needs a major overhaul.

Munro, Vicente Lopez

No, it wasn't Lewisville proper.

grizzly steepe

i will never understand the buiulding of cities in an area that is below the sea level

you would drown any wildlife that lives in the desert

EZ

6 million is an understatement if anything

Dam looks like it's functioning exactly as designed.

>Literally cucking the atlantic ocean.

...

How can the US be a first world country and not have real houses?

Apart from it's the North Sea, not the Atlantic that the Delta Works face

Brazil

cause never had torrential rain and flooding before. Climate change believers are gullible prats that believe anything.

You do realize Houston voted for shillary right?

Netherlands, the Dutch are pro in water management. The majority of it's residents live below sea lvl.

Houston is only bad in certain parts. My buddies in houston aint got any flooding. Just wind and rain.

Also if india got hit by this 50 years ago they would still be rebuilding.

This is how the country would look like without their dykes, flood barriers, etc..

They took on nature and won.

>hurr Houston is all I see on duh TV so dats the only place it's floodin

The hardest hit areas are actually the suburbs and rural areas surrounding the city. See:

This is what happens in countries where the government (local, state, fed, whatever) looks at the budget and cuts maintenance for a year or two to balance the books or grant a tax cut to the rich.

The next administration doesn't want to raise taxes, so the missing maintenance stays missing.

Ten years go by. Nothing breaks. What's the worst that can happen?

And the years pass, and no one is spending the money on maintaining the infrastructure, and now it's finally beginning to collapse and no one can afford to do anything about it.

Well done Republicans. You've tax cut your way to destroying the nation.

America is a continent, not a country. stupid.

i didnt think that bill dealt with money but rather just set higher fema standards.

Trust me. If it rains 50 inches in 50 hours in Amsterdam, there's going to be problems. What's the average yearly rainfall in the Netherlands? I bet it isn't 50 inches.

This is the 3rd year in a row that Houston had a 500-year storm. They need to get their shit together.

it never rains inches here.

We use the metric system, like more advanced civilizations.
Hence, we'll be ok with water.

>tax cut
pathetic narrative
but hey run for office
without a clue how govt is funded
you should fit right in

good luck on that conversion

most drainage is designed to 1-5-10-20 or 100 year events, if this much rain hasnt been seen in this area before then that would explain the failure/innability of the stormwater system

>Climate chang

Protip: pointing to a single storm system as your "told ya so", especially when Texas hasn't had one in quite a while, makes you look like a fucking dumbass.

This is only the beginning, user.

see

In other words, "we'd be fucked." and "No, it doesn't rain anywhere near that much in one year, and barely in two years." But since you don't have any logical response, you'll just mention something about the metric system.

Climate change is not something you will notice. There isn't going to suddenly be huge storms. You aren't going to wake up one morning and the ocean, which is now boiling, is 10 feet higher. The only people who will notice it are people who study data going back centuries. A single weather event, or even a few storms over the course of a few years is not a product of some cataclysmic change in the climate. This storm in particular was a hurricane like any other its size. The massive damage was caused because it sat there dumping rain instead of breaking apart and moving inland. That's a product of the countless variables involved in weather patterns, not a climate change boogeyman.

Climate change believer believes in what experts in their field are saying. You believe what some guy on youtube is saying.
YOU are gullible.

>experts in their field
neither one of you faggots could muster a free thought under duress

its 2am, i am 2 lazy to look up facts n shit haha.


still think inches is a fucked up system though

>This storm in particular was a hurricane like any other its size.
>The massive damage was caused because it sat there dumping rain instead of breaking apart and moving inland
Pick only one.

>Pick only one.

Reading comp 101. First statement addresses the storm itself. Second statement addresses the overall condition of weather patterns nationwide which resulted in the storm hanging out.