By Emily Flitter and Andy Sullivan 1 September 2017 PORT ARTHUR, Texas/HOUSTON (Reuters) – A week after Hurricane Harvey came ashore in Texas, rescuers pressed their marathon search for survivors on Friday in large pockets of land that remained flooded by one of the costliest natural disasters to hit the United States. The storm has […]
By Colin Kalmbacher 31 August 2017 (LawNewz) – Texas Governor Greg Abbott has signaled his state’s intent to accept a controversial offer of aid from neighboring Mexico in order to help victims of Hurricane Harvey. That aid will include food, automobiles, and boats and could also include assistance from the Mexican armed forces. Speaking at […]
By Lisa Rein 29 August 2017 (The Washington Post) – As he toured rising floodwater in Texas on Tuesday, President Trump effusively praised his administration’s Hurricane Harvey response, an effort he began touting on Twitter last weekend even before the storm made landfall. But not too long ago, the president proposed a budget calling for […]
By Mike Carlowicz 31 August 2017(NASA) – Hurricane Harvey has dropped record-breaking amounts of rainfall, particularly around Houston, Texas, since making landfall on 25 August 2017. Yesterday, we showed satellite-based estimates of rainfall, while today’s image shows the storm’s consequences from a different but complementary perspective.The map above depicts soil conditions around south Texas on […]
By Jason Samenow 29 August 2017 (The Washington Post) – The rain from Harvey is in a class of its own. The storm has unloaded over 50 inches of rain east of Houston, the greatest amount ever recorded in the Lower 48 states from a single storm. […]John Nielsen-Gammon, Texas state climatologist, said a rain […]
By Manuel Bojorquez 30 August 2017 HOUSTON (CBS News) – Harvey dumped a year’s worth of rain on Houston in a matter of days, shattering last year’s above-normal rainfall and bringing this year’s total to an unprecedented 73 inches.But according to Jim Blackburn, a professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Rice University, […]
By Jason Samenow 31 August 2017 (The Washington Post) – As Harvey’s rains unfolded, the intensity and scope of the disaster were so enormous that weather forecasters, first responders, the victims, everyone really, couldn’t believe their eyes. Now the data are bearing out what everyone suspected: This flood event is on an entirely different scale […]
31 August 2017 (Associated Press) – A five-story building collapsed in India’s financial capital of Mumbai, killing at least 19 people and injuring 16 others, after torrential rains lashed the country’s west. Another 20 people are feared trapped in the debris. Rescue workers, police and residents helped pull 16 people out of the rubble and […]
NEWARK, California, 30 August 2017 (RMS) – An analysis by RMS, a global risk modeling and analytics firm, has found that economic losses caused by wind, storm surge, and inland flood from Hurricane Harvey could be as high as U.S. $70-90 billion. The majority of the overall loss is likely to be from inland flooding […]
By Alex Horton and Mark Berman 31 August 2017 CROSBY, Texas (The Washington Post) – The remnants of Hurricane Harvey carried its wrath up the Mississippi Delta on Thursday, but not before hammering the Gulf Coast with more punishing cloudbursts and growing threats that included blasts and “black smoke” at a crippled chemical plant and […]
