Got Water?

Lubbock set a record for one day rainfall with 7.8 inches in a 24 hour period. This city floods with one inch due to the dumbass way it is laid out. Can anyone explain to me how not having drains in the curbs seem like a bright idea to the past city planners? When you run rainwater down your streets it creates rivers in your streets and lakes in your intersections. If you drain it down a storm sewer drain it goes UNDER ground, which keeps your streets LESS flooded. Any 1st grade student could figure that out, but engineers can't? Thats how Lubbock has always done things, fucked up and costly.