Did Cutting The Mangroves Impact Flooding?

With reference to the flooding now going on in KW, Assistant City Manager John Jones is right: "There is nothing [they] can do about it." Now, that is. The City should have thought about this possibility before it cut the mangroves near the flooded area without a permit.

What city officials didn't mention in their attempt to explain that it wasn't the cutting of the mangroves that caused the flooding is that there is silt now filling up the culverts and that the water has no where to go. Of course, it wasn't the cutting of the mangroves that promoted that. Yeah, right.