UPDATE
I am impressed, not only did they pick up our heavy trash they also picked up the garbage and recycle.
Heavy Trash
I don’t know about the rest of the city, but in my neck of the woods, heavy trash pickup was already behind schedule. I told my wife yesterday as we were cutting a large branch that fell during the storm that they were waiting for this to happen so that we could place the debris by the curb.
Let us see how long that debris will be left out there throughout the city before people get tired of seeing it. Failure to do pickup the debris will rest solely on Whitmire’s shoulders. Kathy Whitmire lost as mayor because she failed that test.
Whitmire and more lanes
Eight years ago, Mayor Sylvester Turner, in his first annual address to TAG, called for a “paradigm shift” in the city’s mobility, citing the need to focus on more than just solo drivers and vehicles.
Whitmire, citing the frustration of many suburban commuters, has spent much of his first four months shifting back – at least symbolically. Source
More lanes mean more concrete, which means more water going into the storm sewers and bayous. Guess what, Mayor? Flooding is probably the most important issue that will impact Houston. You may not know it or care even if you did. Want proof Mayor?
Five years ago, Hurricane Harvey ravaged Greater Houston and the Texas Gulf Coast. Harvey hit our region as a storm, dumping as much as 60 inches of rain in some areas over four days, producing $125 billion in damages, and killing 36 people in Harris County alone. Source
Whitmire, you want more concrete so that our neighbors to the north and south can travel faster while in Houston?
Bayous and flooding
The bayous are widened to help with the flooding, so immediately, the state and you want to dump more water on our bayous. Think about it that will lead to flooding again.
I live near Brays Bayou, the state wants to dump a lot more water in the bayou with its work on 288. Keegans Bayou is being widen so it will dump more water into Brays Bayou.
Montgomery County and Liberty County allow their water to be dumped into Harris County, but you, John Whitmire, want to be nice to our neighbors?
Harris County leaders are calling on officials from surrounding counties to do more to combat future flooding. This comes in the wake of flood waters from Montgomery County inundating much of northern Harris County.
Judge Lina Hidalgo thanked Harris County’s first responders for ensuring the county made it through the flooding of the past several days without a single fatality, conducting more than 200 rescues. But Commissioner Tom Ramsey said that’s no thanks to surrounding counties.
“There’s an event like this that tells us that my neighbor to the north, Montgomery County, needs to do more on flood mitigation because every drop of water that flows from Montgomery County comes into Harris County through Precinct 3,” Ramsey said. Source
We hope that you are better at doing than talking; talk is cheap. I will count the days, weeks, or months before the debris is picked up. Or maybe you can waive that magic wand to fix things.