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  2. Hurricane Harvey - Wikipedia

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    Hurricane Harvey was a devastating Category 4 hurricane that made landfall on Texas and Louisiana in August 2017, causing catastrophic flooding and more than 100 deaths. It is tied with 2005's Hurricane Katrina as the costliest tropical cyclone on record, [nb 1] inflicting $125 billion (2017 USD) in damage, primarily from catastrophic rainfall-triggered flooding in the Houston metropolitan ...

  3. April 2016 North American storm complex - Wikipedia

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    Part of the 2015–16 North American winter and United States floods of 2016. The April 2016 North American storm complex was a major storm system that resulted from an upper-level low in the United States stalling and producing record-breaking rain in and around Houston, Texas, resulting in severe flooding, as well as a major snowstorm in the ...

  4. Buffalo Bayou - Wikipedia

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    Buffalo Bayou is a slow-moving body of water which flows through Houston in Harris County, Texas. Formed 18,000 years ago, it has its source in the prairie surrounding Katy, Fort Bend County, and flows approximately 53 miles (85 km) east through the Houston Ship Channel into Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico. [ 2 ]

  5. Heavy rains near Houston close schools and flood roadways as ...

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    May 2, 2024 at 10:40 PM. Mandatory evacuation orders were issued near Houston on Thursday for some residents following heavy rains in Texas that stranded motorists, flooded streets and closed ...

  6. Harris County Flood Control District - Wikipedia

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    The Harris County Flood Control District (HCFCD) is a government agency that was established to reduce the effects of flooding in Harris County, Texas, United States. The flood control district has its headquarters in Houston. [2] After destructive floods occurred in 1929 and 1935, residents of Harris County advocated for relief of flooding issues.

  7. Houston Mayor pledges life saving barriers on chronically ...

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    July 10, 2024 at 8:05 PM. HOUSTON - Houston Mayor John Whitmire lamented the loss of life at a low-lying, chronically flooding thoroughfare and issued a call for long-overdue action. "One of the ...

  8. Kashmere Gardens, Houston - Wikipedia

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    Kashmere Gardens is a historically African-American neighborhood in the northern 610 Loop area in Houston, Texas, United States. A group of single-family houses, many of which have large lots, Kashmere Gardens is between an industrial area and a rail corridor. [1] As of 2015 the Kashmere Gardens Super Neighborhood #52 had about 10,005 people.

  9. Houston weather: Flash Flood Warnings expired for Harris ...

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    Fox local. FOX 26 Digital Staff. July 26, 2024 at 8:57 AM. HOUSTON - Flood warnings and watches continue to be in effect for Houston-area counties on Friday as heavy rain rolls across the area ...