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Two Houston homeowners are seeking answers after a municipal water tank burst, flooding their homes. With insurance claims denied and the utility district citing government immunity, they may need ...
Tropical storm Harvey has dumped over 2 feet of rain on Houston, Texas, and 2 more feet are expected. Tracking Harvey: Before-and-after images show the catastrophic flooding in Houston Skip to ...
A flood watch was in effect through Friday morning. The National Weather Service office in Houston warned that tornadoes were possible as "severe storms continue to roll across our coastal counties."
The storm had come ashore hours before daybreak with 110-mph (175 km/h) winds and towering waves, pushing boats ashore, smashing many houses, flooding thousands of homes, knocking out windows in Houston's skyscrapers, [2] uprooting trees, and cutting electric power to millions of customers (estimates range from 2.8 million [9] to 4.5 million ...
Houston is one of the most flood-prone metro areas in the country. Hurricane Harvey in 2017 dumped historic rainfall that flooded thousands of homes and resulted in more than 60,000 rescues . In one soggy area of Houston, school officials in Channelview canceled classes and said a survey of their employees found many of them had experienced ...
After that, Harvey rapidly weakened and stalled for multiple days over Texas, dropping torrential rainfall. Harvey eventually moved back into the Gulf on August 28, and a day later, Harvey made a fifth and final landfall west of Cameron, Louisiana. The large and powerful hurricane dropped heavy rainfall over parts of southern and southeastern ...
A flood warning continues in the northeast Houston area through noon, the National Weather Service reported Friday morning.A flood watch remains in effect until 7 p.m. Friday. A 50% chance of rain ...
The worst flooding occurred in Houston, where most of Allison's damage occurred: 30,000 became homeless after the storm flooded over 70,000 houses and destroyed 2,744 homes. Downtown Houston was inundated with flooding, causing severe damage to hospitals and businesses. Twenty-three people died in Texas.