And here’s the big lesson from Hurricane Harvey: The U.S. government’s flood zone designation, and the maps based on it, may not predict future flood risks accurately, particularly as climate ...

After the revisions, roughly 4,000 post-Harvey residential permits ... 300,000s and has applied for its official revision to the flood insurance rate maps. So far, it’s been reviewed by the ...

(Kevin Sullivan/The Washington Post ... flooding, and local agencies such as Houston TranStar provided data on road closures. Yet the volatile and ongoing nature of the storm makes it difficult to ...

MORE ON FLOOD MAPS: Post Harvey, 1 in 8 Houston homes permitted are in floodplains, as developers reshape flood maps Under the new maps, the areas subject to those rules will expand. "That's going ...

The ordinances, put into place after Hurricane Harvey’s ... of drawing new maps, according to the Houston Chronicle. "If [Harris County] expands the 100-year flood plains then that will ...

The Harris County Flood Control District has already started asking homeowners whether they're interested in buyouts post-Harvey ... be calls to re-map floodplains again after Harvey.

created after Tropical Storm Allison in 2007 – can revert to a 20-year-old FEMA map to guide post-Harvey rebuilding. Friendswood is just one example of Houston officials downplaying flood risks.

HOUSTON (AP) — Officials in a Texas county devastated by Hurricane Harvey approved new regulations ... Federal Emergency Management Agency’s flood maps for the county are updated.

Or so say Corpus Christi's 33-year-old flood maps. Preliminary drafts of updated ... but also future growth in a post-Harvey world. It will mean tough discussions for city leaders and the ...

A long-awaited update to FEMA's flood maps for Harris County has been delayed again, eight years after Hurricane Harvey revealed how the current renderings drastically underestimate homeowners ...

Texas has seen similar underground flood diversion tunnels built in places like San Antonio and Austin. For Fletcher, who was elected to Congress in 2018 in the aftermath of Harvey, fighting for ...