Law Humor

By Judge Jerry Buchmeyer

This contribution and its title from James A. Newsom of Houston (Munister, Sprott, etc.). James explains that this excerpt is from "an utterly fascinating deposition of an engineer/hydrologist in a case in which plaintiff's claim inverse condemnation due to flooding.

Q. I see handwritten notations toward the top of the graph showing approximately 14.4 inches and, and below that, 12.14 inches.

Is it not true that if you use a HEC-1 discharge area of 78.2 square miles for the drainage area, what would correlate with rainfall of 14.4 inches, and if you use the FEMA drainage area of 92.7 square miles, that would correlate, for this time period, with a rainfall of approximately 12.14 inches in the Clear Creek Watershed?

A. For some reason, it's not calculating now ... [dramatic pause] ... but this is an attorney's calculator.

Full post as published by Say What! on November 20, 2009 (boomark / email).