More "so-called" Visions

For Downtown Fort Worth.  Does downtown know there is an entire city out there?  How does a non-profit "oversee" downtown?

We can't wait to hear WHO will be donating their time to head the committee, receiving nothing in return.

Read the article in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, be sure and read the comments from THE PEOPLE.  Some made us laugh, this being one of them:

The "vision" is the continued looting of the taxpayers for the financial benefit of a few fat cats and politicians.  How about a vision of I-35W that doesn't look like a two lane parking lot?

In January, hundreds of "visionaries" will begin the yearlong process of designing the fourth, 10-year master plan for downtown Fort Worth.

Downtown residents, business and property owners, civic and government leaders and representatives from surrounding neighborhoods will be asked to participate in so-called visioning sessions conducted by Downtown Fort Worth Inc.

The process has worked well in the past, so Andy Taft, president of Downtown Fort Worth Inc., a nonprofit advocacy group that oversees downtown, decided to continue it.

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Fires and Floods

Go hand and hand.  Who would have thought?

FEMA fills you in.  So if a wild fire can cause a flood downstream, what else could?

Flood mitigation methods will also be discussed because flooding risks can jump after a wildfire, even in areas far from the fire that were not previously considered as having moderate or high flood hazards.

Flooding may be the last disaster wildfire survivors think they should guard against. When fire burns away vegetation, however, there is nothing to soak up the water from the heavy rainstorms that can occur in Texas. Storm runoff can cause severe erosion, mudslides and flooding.  

While the highest risk of flooding is for properties directly impacted by fire, it also rises for homes downstream or below scorched areas.

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