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Mandatory evacuations were ordered in parts of Texas, and residents in Harris County, home to Houston, were told to be ready to stay put for days after heavy rain caused flooding.
Flooding remains one of the most common and costly disasters in the U.S., with costs exceeding $850 billion since 2000. Most insurance policies exclude flood coverage because of the high risks ...
At least four people have died in Houston as severe weather blasted through the city, an official said, as strong storms lashed parts of Texas with destructive winds and dangerous flooding.
On May 25, near Houston, about 400 homes were placed under mandatory evacuation orders downstream from the Louis Creek Dam. [27] On May 25, Texas Governor Greg Abbott declared a state of emergency for 24 counties as a result of the ongoing disaster, and called the floods the biggest in Texas history.
The climate of Houston brings very heavy rainfall annually in between April and October, during the Texas Gulf Coast rainy season, together with tidal flood events, which have produced repeated floods in the city ever since its founding in 1836, though the flood control district founded in 1947, aided by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ...
2024–2025 floods in Southeast Asia and South Asia. Sixteen people are killed in floods and landslides in Central Java Province, Indonesia. 2025 Kartalkaya hotel fire. At least 76 people are killed and another 51 injured in a fire at the Grand Kartal hotel in Kartalkaya, Bolu Province, Turkey.
Heavy rains from Tropical Storm Beta created “impassable flooding” along some roadways in Houston, Texas, on Tuesday, September 22, local media reported.The center of storm Beta crossed the ...
A selection of striking news photographs taken around the world this week.