Marc Stephenson wrote:

To folks who don't know when Allison occurred, it was 2001.

I got carried away with my text because of open space coming into
inventory and the surge of interest in habitats in Harris County. And
that's a good thing - the open space, I mean. =


Marc Stephenson wrote:
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In article ,
J Kolenovsky wrote:
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bird sanctuaries, habitats, and community gardens/farms. The
Brownwood
subdivision in Baytown, TX was turned into a huge nature refuge,

http://www.enn.com/features/1999/12/...ytown_7399.asp

(this article is date-stamped 1999)

and

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/storm2001/982409. ...

(this article alludes to events 18 years prior)
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Not this has much to do with austin.gardening... but

Not directly but Harris Countians are getting into habitats which is
something Travis, Williamson and Hays counties ahve been into for a
long
time. We are coming around and sharing that fact.

this might give people the impression that the Brownwood situation
had something to do with Tropical Storm Allison.

No, readers. It did not.

I lived in Baytown
from 1960-1978 and my parents lived there until 1996 or so. There's
an aerial photo map on my office wall showing the houses and streets
of Baytown, including Brownwood, from 1973. I was there for the 25"
rains from Claudette in 1979.
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It's nice that something good eventually happened in Brownwood, but
it wasn't
because of Allison.

This is in the article from the
URL:http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/storm2001/982409

"The smattering of proposed buyouts in the Houston area of homeowners
flooded during last month's Tropical Storm Allison pales in comparison
to
the trauma of 18 years ago". =

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(If anybody goes to the Baytown Nature Center (which doesn't have a
"center"
facility from what I can tell)

HGMP only allows open air pavillions and this is referred to as a
center. Bathrooms are the only enclosed structures allowed on
mitigated
land.

on the site of the former Brownwood subdivision,
be sure to take plenty of effective mosquito repellant.)

Amen, Gulf Coast Prairie and Marsh land. =


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