After 3 inches of rain shut down a Katy community, residents want to know what went wrong
. Developers can submit applications to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, arguing that floodplain designations should be changed because of physical changes they’ve made to the landscape. One such revision covered both LakeHouse and the swath of land immediately to its west, which is having lots prepared for a community called Sunterra.
"Three inches doesn't sound like a lot," he said."But three inches over an hour is the same as 15 inches over a day -- both of those are hundred-year events," or rain events that the government has determined have only a 1 percent chance of happening in any given year. In addition to the speed at which the rain falls, factors such as whether the ground had already been soaked by previous rains, reducing its capacity to absorb water, can change how water drains.
A board member for the community said he had received hundreds of emails after the road filled with water, and dozens of residents showed up to a meeting on Tuesday with Jones to hear what steps were being taken. One asked who had approved the plan for a new road that floods; another asked why the new lane of the road was visibly lower than the old one.
As to questions of why the new road is being built lower than the old one, Scott said it came down to flood projections and costs.
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