Even to residents of the area, it's really unknown. |
If we get it over a three- or four-hour period, then we are in pretty good shape. The inlets have time to take it, and it drains off well. |
If you add up all the pumping capacity of all those stations, we can pump about 2½ billion gallons of water a day. That's about the amount it would take to fill White Rock Lake. |
Normally, we wouldn't have problems with street flooding until we get 1½ to 2 inches of rain. |
You would have had cars just floating down the freeway had it not been for this. |