We've had this sand dust blowing through and have been hoping for some wild sunsets, but nothing came of it except for heavy rains. Didn't even have any breakthroughs of the sun to light up the sky and water.
Anyway, this image is from one of Houston's two major flood control areas. In most times, these are just parks with soccer fields, dog parks, fishing lakes, picnic areas, bike trails and so on. But when heavy rains and storms come through, water is diverted to the park through an all encompassing bayou system. Pretty amazing stuff when you have a look at it.
When Harvey came through a few years back, this was one of two major flood control areas. The primary water reservoir (not shown) nearly filled, so the operators had to make the choice between i) overflowing the reservoir and flooding all of West Houston and more or ii) initiating a controlled release through gates that flooded everything along the bayou (the reservoir bayou empties to the Gulf of Mexico). Basically, choose the level of your destruction, although one choice was far more predictable than the other.
Houston is largely recovered by now but there are lingering effects. I was checking into photographing bats under one of the bridges near the city, but found out that the colony was destroyed and displaced by Harvey flooding. Water rose, flooded the bridge, and sealed the bats in a watery grave. There's hope that they're recovering, but I haven't found any recent images.
(2020-0629)-Misc-GBPSunset0022 by Super Nobody, on Flickr
