They're both correct, just in different contexts.
However, I don't think that using a population figure for an incorporated city and purposefully excluding the 5+ million people living in the surburbs of that city (however loosely you care to define 'suburb') is particularly useful when pondering the effects of a rain storm.
The flooding doesn't stop at the city line.
There's not really a perfect metric, alas, but incorporated city limits is a particularly poor one, IMO.
]]>slew of propaganda equivalences
You're too subtle for me.
entire conceptual framework
Postulating that someone as dull-witted and brutish as I even has a conceptual framework is asserting facts not in evidence.
Why, most people question what my first language is, because is certainly can't be English. I can barely put one word in front of another.
Business MBA
Now that's a low blow. :-)
And I lived thru that 6 Sigma corporate conceptual delusion shit, paid a lot of good money to therapists to block it out of my memory, and I don't thank you for bringing it (back) up.
]]>Ponder for a moment the difference between "bad" and "3 sigma event". This difference isn't subtle.
Filing this under ... why am I wasting my time responding to Miss Line Noise ?
]]>I don't know what source you are using for population
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Metropolitan_Statistical_Areas
claims Dallas-Fort Wort at 4 and Houston at 5.
There are several competing MSA lists.
]]>Houston and its suburbs have a population of 2.303 million persons.
According to the US Census, the Houston MSA (Metropolitan Statistical Area) is estimated to have a 2016 population of about 6.7 million people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Houston
The city of Houston ( sans suburbs ) is about 2.2 million.
As of noon today, the reported death toll is 5.
Houston is nick-named "the bayou city". It floods "all the time". This looks like a 3 sigma event ( or so ) however. Hurricane Carla in 1961 was pretty bad ... the population then was a fraction of what it is now, though.
The whole metro area is "in the flood plain". (I think the highest point in the metro area is 45 feet ASL. ) We used to joke that Houston floods whenever there is a heavy dew, or whenever 3 drunks spit at the same time.
Many 10s of thousands of construction workers are in their pickup trucks driving to Houston from all over the country "as we speak".
]]>Was amusing to see Mrs. Line Noise reaction to the injection of facts to the discussion :-)
Now, in re: "they can't afford to fly abroad to begin with".
Uh, now, you're just giving me the piss, right ?
Until 5 or 10 years ago, US citizens could travel to Mexico, Canada, and the vast majority of the Carribean without having a passport, so it was quite a bit more uncommon to have one. Now, you have to have one to take a cruise, or hop a flight to Cancun, and those are common vacation destinations from the US. ( memo to self ... time to renew passport )
]]>And if I were really smart, I'd know better than to waste my time replying to someone whose posts are commonly indistinguishable from line-noise.
]]>A quick google search for "U.S. Passports issued returns:
"According to the State Department, there are 113,431,943 valid passports in circulation, which means 36% of Americans own a valid passport (and therefore 64% do not)."
I suppose deciding whether 1 out of 3 is 'uncommon' is a value judgement.
]]>Hmmm.
http://constitutionus.com/#a1s7c2
Article 1, Section 7, Clause 2
" ... If any Bill shall not be returned by the President within ten Days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the Same shall be a Law, in like Manner as if he had signed it ..."
]]>http://phys.org/news/2016-10-driverless-truck-uber-otto-colorado.html
"A self-driving truck built by Uber's unit Otto made a pioneering delivery of beer in Colorado last week, Otto announced Tuesday.
The 18-wheel semi loaded down with Budweiser made the 120 mile (200 kilometer) trip from Fort Collins through the center of crowded Denver to Colorado Springs using only its panoply of cameras, radar and sensors to read the road. The truck carried a professional driver, but he simply monitored the progress from the truck's sleeper berth behind the driver's seat."
]]>I suspect someone, after a bit of introspection, realized that they had just created a competing slate, and were soliciting people ... oops.
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