As Houston braces for Hurricane Ike’s arrival, Continental Airlines has canceled flights from Wichita to Houston after 8 a.m. Friday until Sunday morning. At the same time, Wichita is expecting rain and potential flooding from Ike.
If you’re a Continental ticket holder needing to rebook a flight, be sure to call the airline’s reservations line at (800) 523-3273. You also can go to the counter at Wichita Mid-Continent Airport.
Hurricanes and floods? What’s next, locusts?
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To anyone,
Could the flooding happening in NW Wichita, in areas I’ve never seen flood like this, be a direct result of filling in Cadillac Lake and building a Lowe’s?
Jerry – not that project specifically but our overall policies allowing filling in the floodplain is making things progressively worse. I would note that KDOT’s plan for Kellogg through Goddard will make it even worse.
When the assisted living facility next to Dillons at Central/Maize was built I was the lone dissenter on CPO. My reason: likelihood of flood. In 1998 it was evacuated by boat. I wonder if they have evacuated yet today?
This mess CAN be solved; but not by continuing to make it worse by filling in more floodplain.
I couldn’t agree more. I had seen flooding at the “usual suspects” like Central/Maize and along the Cowskin. I was truly shocked to see the amount of water at 21st/Maize and Ridge Road around Reflection Ridge. With losing Cadillac Lake, the trashing of the Ridge Road area between 29th and 37th St. N. and additional acreage of parking lots it appears the flooding concerns have moved north.
jerry – as long as the developers get everything they want this will only get worse. All this professional licensed geologist can do is watch. And periodically say “I told you so”.