December 7, 2017 Houston residents may need to raise homes after Harvey More than 1,600 Houston residents whose properties flooded during and after Hurricane Harvey may need to elevate their homes if they want to continue living there.
November 15, 2017 Agency: Texas chemical plant unprepared for Hurricane Harvey Federal investigators say they've seen no signs that a Houston-area chemical plant that flooded and partially exploded during Hurricane Harvey considering moving its highly unstable compounds offsite as a precaution.
November 13, 2017 Harvey's 'Biblical' rainfall is getting more likely The chances of a hurricane flooding parts of Texas, like Harvey did, have soared sixfold in just 25 years because of global warming and will likely triple once again before the end of the century, a new study says.
November 5, 2017 1 family has survived 5 generations of Houston storms: Mine I returned to the city of my birth a few weeks ago, to a place that had drowned after a monster storm brought more than a year's worth of rain and sent its bayous and reservoirs overflowing.
October 30, 2017 Judge orders Texas housing agency to repair Harvey damage A judge has blocked Houston's public housing authority from evicting residents of a senior-living apartment complex that was damaged by heavy rains following Hurricane Harvey.
October 29, 2017 Tropical Storm Philippe speeds away into Atlantic The depression soaking parts of western Cuba has formed into Tropical Storm Phillipe and is expected to dump heavy rains across South Florida and the Keys.
October 27, 2017 AP PHOTOS: Plans in pipeline to protect against next Sandy After Superstorm Sandy, Rebuild by Design — a design competition from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and The Rockefeller Foundation — launched a project for cities and towns affected by the storm and residents to come up with plans for projects to make their coastlines more resilient.
October 27, 2017 Recovery efforts continue 5 years after Superstorm Sandy On Oct. 29, 2012, Superstorm Sandy devastated coastal areas of New Jersey and New York, causing billions of dollars in damage, and killed dozens of people in the U.S. and Caribbean.
October 23, 2017 Study: NYC could see bad flooding every 5 years Within the next three decades, floods that used to strike the New York City area only once every 500 years could occur every five years, according to a new scientific study released just days before the fifth anniversary of Superstorm Sandy.
October 9, 2017 Nate dumps heavy rains across East Coast as Gulf begins to assess storm damage Nate swept its way up the East Coast on Monday as a weakened post-tropical system, bringing heavy rains and gusty winds after making landfall a day before as a hurricane along the Gulf Coast.
