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As Houston Matters prepares to celebrate its 10th anniversary, we continue our series of conversations about how things in the city have and have not changed in the past decade. Today, we talk with experts about past storms and efforts to minimize the effects from future floods.

Our Ten Years series explores a decade of flooding and efforts to mitigate it.

Codirector of the speed center. it was established ten years ago to address severe storms and their impact on the gulf coast area. professor blackburn thank you for joining us tonight. im glad you were able to join us. >> thank you. >> today the army corps of engineers decided to open up the spillways west of houston, west of the downtown. as far as i understand its basically a way to save the dam to preserve the integrity of the reservoirs, to save a greater amount of people. the short term res...

Country in figuring out how to cope and deal with these kind of new unprecedented storm events. but its going to take every bit of creativity that we have. >> jim blackburn, co director of the speed center at rice university in houston. thank you for helping us understand this. this is very sobering coming from you. >> really appreciate your taking the time, rachel. >> thank you. all right. weve got more ahead tonight. stay with us. ♪ music

Then? >> not yet, no. the waters were rising but we werent flooded. i understand they have to do what they have to do to save houston but that accelerated the process. >> they have to do what they have to do to save houston. this is reporting about a family directed affected by the controlled release. even on day four of this disaster in houston, people who are not flooded yet may yet find theyre flooded tomorrow or the next day as the effects of the storm continue to crescendo and as officials ...

Changing and will be skewing to more severe events. thats what were seeing. weve seen two 500-year storms in the last ten years in certain parts of town. and i have no idea what this storm is going to evaluate as but certainly way beyond a hundred-year storm. i think the year hundred-year rainfall is virtually meaningless today. and the faederal emergency management are the ones who come up with this. and i think this affecting everybody in the united states. i think houston has a chance to be a...