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jmart wrote: Dang how in the world can you have gravel or roads like that so close to the city. I live here in rural Pa. and have to ride almost 11 miles and climb a 3 mile mt. to just get to some fire tower really hilly gravel crappy/rough/washboard roads.

Zman   Trinity Rive levees near downtown Dallas.   

jmart wrote:We're very fortunate here in Dallas to have this natural disaster waiting to happen.   I don't know the exact history, but my take on it is that our city was built along the paths of the Trinity "River". The Trinity name is so called because it is made up of multiple (three) rivers that interconnect.   When we get rain, the bottom land around the rivers flood really bad which would in turn flood our downtown and other areas.  Levees were built on both sides of the rivers to control the flooding.   Sorry for the long explanation.