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Below the Waterlines: Houston After Hurricane Harvey
August TV Drive is ongoing! Visionary Leader Andrea Bryant $25k matching challenge

Tag: 2021 Atlantic hurricane season

Weather

There have been so many Atlantic storms this year, forecasters have run out of names

Scott Neuman, NPR

Posted on November 2, 2021 · A particularly active Atlantic hurricane season has left no more names on the official list for the year. Forecasters had expected between 13 and 20 storms, but the newly formed Wanda makes 21.

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WEATHER

Power Slowly Returns As Greater Houston Begins Nicholas Cleanup

Lucio Vasquez / Paul DeBenedetto / Camilo Hannibal Smith / Sara Willa Ernst / Florian Martin / ShaVonne Herndon / Haya Panjwani, KERA

Posted on September 13, 2021 · Wind speeds reached 50 mph in Galveston after the storm made landfall along Matagorda Bay just after midnight, before slowly travelling Northeast.

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Hurricane Ida

Hurricane Ida Traps Louisianans, Leaves The Grid A Shambles

REBECCA SANTANA, AP / Kevin McGill, AP / JANET McCONNAUGHEY, AP

Posted on August 30, 2021 · A fearsome Hurricane Ida has left scores of coastal Louisiana residents trapped by floodwaters, while making a shambles of the electrical grid across a wide swath of the state in the sweltering, late-summer heat.

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Hurricane Ida

Hurricane Ida Strikes Louisiana; New Orleans Hunkers Down

Kevin McGill, AP / Jay Reeves, Associated Press

Posted on August 26, 2021 · The Category 4 storm hit Sunday with winds of 150 mph. It was the same date Hurricane Katrina ravaged Louisiana and Mississippi 16 years earlier.

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Below the Waterlines: Houston After Hurricane Harvey
August TV Drive is ongoing! Visionary Leader Andrea Bryant $25k matching challenge

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Five years after Harvey, a solution to the flood threat from the Addicks and Barker Reservoirs remains a long way off

Andrew Schneider

Posted on August 9, 2022 · The most popular solution to the flooding threat from the Addicks and Barker Reservoirs is a massive underground stormwater tunnel. It would cost billions of dollars and remains more than a decade away from the start of construction.

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Hurricane

Fort Bend County hosts emergency preparedness meeting

Matthew Thomas

Posted on August 8, 2022 · Participants can get a free hurricane kit for attending.

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Below the Waterlines: Houston After Hurricane Harvey

Below the Waterlines

Trailer: Below the Waterlines: Houston After Hurricane Harvey

Jared Counts

Posted on August 1, 2022 · The Houston Public Media Newsroom is producing a new podcast about the long-term effects of one of Houston's biggest disasters, coming August 2nd, 2022.

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U.S. Senate approves “Ike Dike” plan to protect Houston area from hurricanes

Ariel Worthy

Posted on July 28, 2022 · Gates would be built across the coast of Galveston Bay and moved into place before hurricanes hit to block water from going up the Houston Ship Channel and flooding homes. 

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