- Harvey Broke 10 Months Straight of Sales Gains in Houston; Home Sales Dropped 25% in August [Houston Chronicle]
- Houston Hotel Occupancy Increased from 41.4% on Aug. 25 to 90.4% on Sept. 6, Finds STRÂ [Houston Chronicle]
- Slideshow: The Houston Neighborhoods That Received the Most Rainfall During Harvey [Houston Chronicle; NWS Data]
- Here’s a New Data Tool for Understanding Harvey’s Effect on Houston [The Urban Edge]
- Grand Parkway To Resume Charging Tolls Today [abc13]
- Some Energy Corridor Office Buildings Still Closed Post-Harvey [HBJ ($)]
- Vacant Warehouses Being Used for Harvey Relief Efforts [Houston Chronicle]
- State of Texas/FEMA Disaster Recovery Center To Move from GRB to Netrality Building [Houston Chronicle]
- Additional FEMA Disaster Recovery Center Opens in Webster [Houston Public Media]
- Spaghetti Warehouse Evaluating Whether To Remain at Current Location After Harvey Damage [Houston Chronicle]
- Batanga’s Owner Predicts 4 or 5 Downtown-Area Restaurants May Never Recover from Harvey Flooding [CNBC]
- Mayor Turner Raising Rates for Debris-Removal Crews To Help Get Debris Removed Faster [Click2Houston]
- Understanding Renters’ Rights After Harvey [Houston Public Media]
- Harris County Attorney Warns Flooded-Out Homeowners About Predatory Contractors During Harvey Rebuild [Houston Press]
- The Effect of Hurricanes on NASA Sites in Houston and Florida [Newsweek]
- Equipment Failure Blamed for Release of 135,000 Gallons of Wastewater Sludge into Galveston Bay on Tuesday [AP]
- West Houston Residents Being Asked To Conserve Water To Help Keep Sewage Out of the Streets [abc13]
- Environmental Defense Fund: At Least 7M Pounds of Pollutants Emitted in Houston Area as a Result of Harvey [NPR]
- How a Watershed Scientist Built a Harvey-Proof House [Watershed Texas]
- $13,000 AquaDam Still Didn’t Protect This Meyerland Home During Harvey [Houston Public Media]
- Houston’s ‘Flood Czar’ Now Has One Paid Staffer, but Still No Money [The Texas Tribune]
- Hurricanes Highlight Failure To Enforce Flood Insurance Rules [Bloomberg Businessweek]
- Houston’s Anything-Goes Business Model Under Siege After Harvey [Bloomberg]
- Generation Park Planning To ‘Formally Pursue’ Amazon’s HQ2 [HBJ ($)]
- Chevron Sells 66,500 Acres to Woodlands-Based Company Sabinal Energy [HBJ ($)]
- Installed Cost of Solar Power Fell To Record Lows in the First Quarter [NREL]
- Mysterious Fanged Creature Found on Texas City Beach Possibly Identified with Help of Biology Twitter [BBC News]
- The Link Between Increased Carbon Dioxide Levels and Decreasing Nutrient Levels in Our Food [Politico]
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An email went out this morning to announce that the wastewater treatment plants have been returned to full operation. Flush with confidence!
http://mailchi.mp/houstonoem/update-west-houston-wastewater-treatment-plants-957581
Re: $13,000 Aqua Dam a Bust during Harvey
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On one hand, one cannot fault the owner/house-flipper since he was “insuring” for 30 inches. Harvey brought him an added 5 feet over the dam so there’s no reasonable way he could have seen this.
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On the other, what kind of flood policy could $13,000 have bought him? I’d think one could get a platinum-level 1-year policy for $13,000.
@Wolf Brand Chili: Good post
Flood policy takes something like 30 days to go into effect @Wolf Brand Chili, but otherwise sound logic. If only they had 30 day weather forecasts that were accurate…