{"id":4472,"date":"2017-12-20T12:16:56","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T18:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/?p=4472"},"modified":"2017-12-22T15:50:52","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T21:50:52","slug":"the-bayous-alive-ignoring-it-could-kill-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/?p=4472","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The bayou’s alive\u2019: ignoring it could kill Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"
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America\u2019s fourth largest city is built on an ancient river network that flooded catastrophically after Hurricane Harvey. With 400,000 homes in the watershed, achieving resilience is the Texan boom town\u2019s greatest challenge<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n
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\u00a0<\/strong>By Tom Dart<\/a> in Houston, The Guardian<\/a>, <\/em>UK<\/p>\n

Dec. 20, 2017<\/p>\n

Buffalo bayou\u2019s waters flow east for more than 50 miles from fast-vanishing western prairieland, through Houston\u2019s centre and out to its heavily industrial ship channel.<\/p>\n

Long before the city\u2019s tangle of freeways were built, the bayou\u2019s existence helped draw settlers in the 19th century. But after thousands of homes flooded this August as Hurricane Harvey ravaged the city, proximity to water is increasingly seen as a liability.<\/p>\n

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\u201cPrevious generations understood that you came here to make money and that was it,\u201d says Susan Chadwick, executive director of Save Buffalo Bayou<\/a>, a local advocacy group.<\/p>\n

The notion that Houston<\/a> could be pretty as well as practical came relatively recently to a city where a climate-controlled tunnel system links 95 blocks so that office workers need not venture outside. \u201cPeople don\u2019t come here for the nature experience \u2013 never did. It was not a hospitable place. It was a place you\u2019d pave over,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

Read the rest of this story in The Guardian.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

America\u2019s fourth largest city is built on an ancient river network that flooded catastrophically after Hurricane Harvey. With 400,000 homes in the watershed, achieving resilience is the Texan boom town\u2019s greatest challenge \u00a0By Tom Dart in Houston, The Guardian, UK Dec. 20, 2017 Buffalo bayou\u2019s waters flow east for more…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4472"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4490,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4472\/revisions\/4490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}