Those "once in 500 years floods" happened twice in the past few years

said a guest on Rachel. And he asked the rhetorical question: with such heavy traffic goes through Houston, why was nothing been done to be ready?

Or, as I added, why were not the lessons of Katrina applied? If at all? The whole Gulf Coast is susceptible. You keep developing large metropolitan cities - with bayous in the middle? - and no one stops to think about possible disaster?