- 1.5 Mile Radius Around Crosby Arkema Organic Peroxides Plant Evacuated Yesterday Amid Explosion Risk [abc13]
- Brazoria County Judge: Columbia Lakes Levee Breaching a ‘Nightmare Event’ [KHOU]
- Harvey Broke a National Rainfall Record for a Single Tropical Storm, with More Than 4 Ft. of Rain [Vox]
- Moody’s Analytics Estimates Destruction to Southeast Texas at About $75 Billion So Far [HBJ]
- 10,000-Bed Shelter Opening at NRG Park [Houston Chronicle]
- Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church Opens Its Doors To Evacuees [Houston Chronicle]
- More Than 1,500 Patients Evacuated from Houston-Area Hospitals So Far [Houston Chronicle]
- At Least 40,000 Galveston County Residents Have Been Displaced by the Storm [Galveston County Daily News]
- Talks To Convert Greenspoint-Area Subsidized Housing Complex Arbor Court into Detention Basin Are Ongoing, Owner Says [Houston Chronicle]
- Congress May Dole Out Hurricane Harvey Relief in Multiple Installments [Politico]
- Mapping the Devastation of Harvey in Houston [New York Times]
- Columbia Lakes Residents Build Artificial Barrier To Hold Back Water [Houston Chronicle]
- A Boat Ride Through Flooded Ponderosa Forest in North Houston [Click2Houston]
- Saint Arnold Brewery Gave Free Beer in Exchange for Hurricane Harvey Relief Supplies [Houston Chronicle]
- Opening of New Location of Lone Star Flight Museum Delayed [HBJ; previously on Swamplot]
- What Judge Emmett Says He Might Have Done Differently in Storm Response [Houston Chronicle]
- What Rebuilding in Houston Might Look Like [NBC News]
- Houston’s Flooding Made Worse by Unchecked Urban Development and Wetland Destruction [Quartz]
- Hurricane Harvey Showing Us the Future of Climate Change [Curbed]
- Houston’s Drainage System Designed To Clear Out Only 12 to 13 In. of Rain per 24-Hr. Period [AP]
- Houston Needs To Invest More in Infrastructure To Ensure Its Future [The Atlantic]
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Here come all the articles about everything wrong with Houston….. From zoning to govt spending to climate change… very annoying
Not sure what a map of household income has to do with hurricane damage, but that’s the NYTimes for you.
Careful Toby and meh, I left a comment several weeks ago criticizing the NY Times, and took a bunch of grief for it. Was told how much I must like “Fake News”, Yes, me , a moderate centrist who voted for Bernie, a closet Trump supporting Alt Righter.
I must LOL whenever I see one of these articles blaming our flooding on our lack of zoning, and as an example of our lack of zoning, the article will show some subdivision in SugarLand or Katy. Last time I checked, neither of those places are inside the city limits of Houston. Also, don’t those subdivisions having zoning up the ying yang? Yard Nazis â„¢, anybody ???
And I’m sure all of the NY Times authors so quick to criticize Houston about Climate Change causing storms and floods also said as much after Hurricane Sandy. Oh, wait…
We need to dredge Buffalo Bayou, Braes Bayou, White Oak, etc to make them deeper. Also new homes should be built on pier and beam off the ground
Darn. I guess “Warehouse Wednesday” is off for tonight.
@ Toby: Yeah, well that’s par for the course. Whenever I’ve been anywhere in the world that there has been a disaster and I know more about that place than national/global journalists, it’s very clear that their efforts are totally ad hoc, and that much of what is said is said with hyperbolic rhetoric because they are entertainers first and journalists second (or third or fourth, maybe). Then, sadly, I too often catch myself tuning into the next set of stories about what’s going on on Wall Street or in D.C., furrowing my brow, and trying to make sense of the world through the same smudged, smeared, and distorted lens.
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@ meh: Personally, I observe with morbid fascination the subtle differences in emergency management between the different socioeconomic pockets of the Houston region — I’ll bet that there will be a lot of grad students using this sort of thing as the basis for their theses in years to come. It’s not only that outside help is going to be apportioned inequitably, but also that the hyper-local response to hyper-local conditions will vary widely. There is a (I’m going to invent a term, here) psychosocial equilibrium, a kind of give and take, at play, I think. And there are so many different permutations to the dynamic that…well, I just wish that I could be there.
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Actually, emergency management is something that UH might should endeavor to create a well-rounded core of expertise in. The Houston area is an excellent urban laboratory in that and many other respects, but that body of knowledge seems that it might be increasingly and more globally useful in decades to come.
Osteen didn’t open his “church” until he was pushed to by social media outrage when other small churches, mosques and synagogues opened as shelters. So much for helping the community. Disgraceful.