Harvey 2.0 Was it Intentional?

Image from Reduce Flooding

WATCH: On October of 2023, Commissioner Tom Ramsey brought up his concerns in a presentation regarding flood mitigation specifically pertaining to Colony Ridge, The San Jacinto River and East Fork.

Months later, Commissioner Ramseys concerns about these issues were confirmed. These issues could have been addressed and resolved, but due to the Commissioners Court abuse of the Flood Bonds, this catastrophic event occurred and one might go as far to say it may have allegedly happened intentionally.

After the Commissioners Court meeting, Texan Reporter Holly Hansen submitted a PIA pertaining to the Flood Department’s communications about Colony Ridge in which Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee immediately appealed to the State Attorney General Ken Paxton. As of right now, I believe Holly still has not received an answer. Harris County leads in PIA appeals compared to any other county in Texas by 800+ appeals. Why would the County Attorney run on a campaign of ‘transparency’ when the office appeals almost all of our PIA requests? What do they have to hide?

What’s precarious pertaining to the San Jacinto River Water Authority, is that they increased the rate to 71,835 cubic feet per second, which is close to what happened during Harvey in 2017.

On May 2nd the release was at 66,100 Cubic Feet which was attached to the SJRA website as well.

How is it possible that over $222 million was spent on dredging the San Jacinto River and yet they had a similar event as Hurricane Harvey which produced 50 inches of rain with storm surges for 20 inches of rain?

Here you can read an informative analysis written by a Kingwood homeowner and mechanical engineer post hurricane Harvey; Harvery Analysis

Below El Commandante made sure she was dressed appropriately and made an effort to accessorize for her photo op.

As most of you know, Harris County Commissioners Court has changed the language of the FLOOD BONDS numerous times adding LMI (lower to middle income) and Social Vulnerability IndeX into how they allocate the spending to flood bonds.

On 12.14.21

in a 3-2 Party Line vote Lina Hidalgo, Adrian Garcia and Rodney Ellis voted to change the formation of the Harris County Flood Bonds which Harris County Constituents Voted for. Citing ‘equity’ even though SIxty One Percent of funding had solely gone to Lower to Middle Income neighborhoods.

Ellis, Hidalgo’s and Garcia’s claims were that LMI neighborhoods were being ‘neglected’ turned out to be a false statement. According to FOIA reports, over the past twenty one years the lower income neighborhoods received more funding for flood bonds as opposed to higher income neighborhoods;

See Graphs thanks to Bob Rehak of Reduce Flooding

Their claims that higher income neighborhoods receive more money in flood bonds is a lie. This *equity* and *social vulnerability index* is most likely a cover to misappropriate money from our county

If the county runs out of flood bonds. The higher income neighborhoods will not be eligible for HUD funds, costing taxpayers 9 TIMES more for a large portion of the flood bond. This will most certainly cause extreme distrust in local government for poor management of these bonds.

To finish this article off, former Commissioner Jack Cagle who was pushed out of office through redistricting thanks to Civis Analytics handiwork during the 2020 Census left his 3 points as to why he would not vote for Agenda item 17