Welcome back to the Ford podcast. I'm your host Lance Armstrong. Thanks for

tuning in this week and each and every week. Any questions or comments concerns

send me an email the forward podcast at we do sport.com. Let me know what's on your mind. Fun

conversation this week with an old friend of mine kind of a trail running legend

but just keeps doing crazy stuff to make his his

status his legendary status just increase in my mind especially Ricky Gates I

think you all find it very interesting. I personally

there's not ever been a second of my 46 years on this planet where I woke up and

thought you know what I think I'm going to run across the country

3700 miles no but before we get to Ricky I want to I want to talk about my home

state of Texas and specifically everybody that was initially

affected by Hurricane Harvey but now which has become the obviously the much

bigger problem is the flooding in the Houston area.

It, you know, when we talk about floods and you talk about measuring them historically that, you know, a lot of times people talk about or you'll hear people talk about how it's a hundred year flood meaning

This type of a flood can only happen once every hundred years

Believe it or not they are talking about Houston

Texas now and the flooding there as a 500 year flood. Just think about that.

So the images are awful. I've been in touch with former

guest on the show Art Acevedo, the now police chief in Houston

Texas was once the police chief for a long time in Austin.

And he said to me via text that it is by far the worst thing he's ever seen and it potentially and most likely not only is just

going to get worse and so you know whatever you're into your thoughts your prayers please send them to the people

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