Houston buildings flooded inward the 2015 Memorial Day Floods in addition to inward the 2016 Tax Day Floods
The metropolis of Houston has 3 major problems: global warming, geography in addition to deregulation. All 3 problems were brilliantly illustrated past times ProPublica & the Texas Tribune inward their serial on Houston's Flood Risk.
One article inward this series, Boomtown, Flood Town, pointed out that (even earlier Hurricane Harvey) but about parts of Houston had been flooded 3 times inward 8 years. In the concluding 3 years solitary Houston has suffered from the 2015 Memorial Day Floods, the 2016 Tax Day Floods in addition to from the flooding caused past times Hurricane Harvey.
One laid of regulations that builders create conduct maintain to comply alongside are those effecting areas within the 100 yr floodplain map. Unfortunately these catastrophic floods look to endure occurring nearly every year inward Houston, non every century.
In reply to the devastating flooding caused past times Hurricane Harvey local regime has been planning to tighten edifice regulations within the floodplain inward Harris County. Unfortunately this volition create piffling to protect areas exterior of the floodplain in addition to every bit the Houston Chronicle reveals the 100 yr floodplain is really out-of-date.
The 100 yr floodplain is the criterion used to gauge overflowing risk. It defines areas where homes are at peril from a i time inward a i hundred yr tempest or where homes conduct maintain a 1% yearly conduct chances of flooding. However, every bit the Chronicle reveals, "more than 55 per centum of the homes damaged during the Tax Day tempest inward 2016 sat exterior the 500-year overflowing plain, every bit did to a greater extent than than one-third of those during the Memorial Day floods inward 2015".
In Harvey's Floods the Houston Chronicle has mapped out the release of homes flooded within the floodplain in addition to the release of homes flooded exterior the floodplain during Hurricane Harvey. The paper has done the same for the Tax Day floods in addition to the Memorial Day floods. What all 3 maps expose is that the 100 yr floodplain maps are woefully out-of-date.
Major floods are occurring far to a greater extent than than i time inward a lifetime in addition to are likewise affecting areas exterior the electrical flow floodplain maps. The authorities are aware of the province of affairs in addition to are working on novel maps. The novel maps volition endure gear upward inward 2022.
Even earlier Hurricane Harvey ProPublica in addition to the Texas Tribune had created a mapped visualization exploring the dangers Houston faces from a major storm. In Hell in addition to High Water the author's warned of the dangers Houston faced from a futurity hurricane.
The mapped interactive inward the article simulates the probable effects of a release of potential storms on the city. Each of these simulations overlays the rails of a potential tempest over a satellite persuasion of the city. These tracks are thus animated to exhibit the probable flooding events that could accept identify inward Houston if such a tempest striking the city.
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