The Wordsmith's Forge

I've been thinking about this a lot. As much as I've been liking Houston, I don't think it's a good idea to settle here permanently. It's already a crapshoot pretty much every time it rains heavily as to whether there will be actual flooding. We live in an older neighborhood with good drainage and our house is set far enough back from the street on enough of a slope that the house itself is unlikely to flood (it didn't during Harvey and most of our neighbors were also okay) but the streets around here do fill with water pretty badly.

It's sad because this is a lovely and vibrant city with a lot of great things going for it and if the situation were different I'd be more than happy to settle here.