Harveys staggering impact: Up to 30 percent of Harris County is under water, flood official says
Source: Washington Post
HOUSTON — The remnants of deadly Hurricane Harvey menaced Texas and Louisiana alike on Tuesday, while a reservoir west of downtown Houston spilled over for the first time in its history due to record-shattering rainfall.
Even as officials struggled to determine the storm’s true impact, its scope appears to be staggering.
A flood official in sprawling Harris County — home to Houston, the country’s fourth-largest city — said that as much as 30 percent of the county’s 1,777 square miles was underwater Tuesday. That scale was described to The Washington Post on Tuesday by Jeff Lindner, a meteorologist with the Harris County Flood Control District.
President Trump arrived in Texas on Tuesday to survey this ongoing devastation, while storm clouds continued a drenching onslaught that has already dropped more than three feet of rain in some areas. Trump’s visit, following his pledge of swift action by the federal government to provide relief to states affected by Harvey, comes on the 12th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina making landfall in Louisiana.
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link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Galveston_hurricane
Something like 10,000 people died, which was pretty much their entire population on the island.
By comparison, the fatality count from Katrina was 1,836 across 5 states.
This area of Texas has always been hard-hit, and yet they keep on building there like it won't ever happen again.
