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Widespread Flooding In Houston Area

HPM Digital Team

Posted on May 28, 2016 · Heavy rainfall across the area has caused Spring Creek and the West Fork of the San Jacinto River to swell. This has caused both street and home flooding along those waterways as the rainwater drains toward the Gulf of Mexico.

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Weather

Harris County Approves Plan To Begin Removing Vehicles From Bayous

Syeda Hasan, KERA News

Posted on October 6, 2015 · The issue came to light two years ago when a search and rescue team identified 127 submerged vehicles in the bayous.

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Gulf Coast sea level rising at ‘unprecedented’ rate, recent studies find

Adam Zuvanich

Posted on April 12, 2023 · Average sea levels along the United States' Gulf and Southeast coasts have been by about half an inch per year since 2010, about three times more than the global average, according to recent studies published in Nature Communications and Journal of Climate.

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UPDATE: Flood Warning Issued For East Harris County Amid Heavy Rain

Paul DeBenedetto

Posted on May 24, 2021 · Houston's National Weather Service on Monday declared a flash flood warning through 3:45 p.m. CT across much of Harris County.

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Houston Matters

Full Show: Flooding After Harvey, And Stories From Texas (July 5, 2018)

Abner Fletcher

Posted on July 5, 2018 · On Thursday's Houston Matters: After flooding on the Fourth of July, we look at what's been done since Harvey to mitigate flooding in Houston. Then, we learn what researchers found on thousands of hours of tapes from NASA’s archives. Plus, a local astronomer answers your questions about stargazing in Greater Houston. And writer W.F. Strong talks about his book Stories From Texas: Some of Them are True.

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Underground Tunnels Proposed For Houston Flooding

Associated Press

Posted on March 26, 2018 · Republican Rep. John Culberson of Houston says this project could be partially funded by Federal Emergency Management Agency hazard mitigation grants

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