But not all leaves are equally doomed some have developed "short cut" veins that, like back roads connecting bigger highways, provide additional outlets for the water.
In Oakland, California, student protesters marched onto a big highway and stopped the traffic.
Among those arrested were five employees of Italy's biggest highway maintenance company.
Moreover, in America, it takes between nine and 19 years to plan and build a big highway.
"They just might be a little car on the big highway, but they were emblematic of what goes on at a whole lot of places.
It is next to a railway line, only a few miles from a big highway, and less than 120 miles from Delhi.
A couple of years ago they built a big highway that stretched over the garages, connecting the edgeland of my childhood with some other edgeland.
Last year, for example, limited-service hotels, like the big highway chains, fared best in a bad climate, with profits off only 9.4percentt.
"I would like to see an exchange, a very big highway so we can keep going back and forth," she said.
Miami to West Palm is one big highway with endlessly repeating combinations of McDonald's, Pizza Hut and Wal-Mart, the DNA of large, loud, consumerist America.
