As floodwaters from Hurricane Harvey recede in Houston ... early warning signals the United States has for flooding. For Houston, those maps were thoroughly inadequate. Early assessments show ...

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 map the extent of flooding in the region.

When Hurricane Harvey devastated the Houston region with a deluge of rain, one of the places where the water escaped its bounds was near a Spring Branch floodway known as Brickhouse Gully ...

In the months after Hurricane Harvey pummeled East Texas ... of damage that bear little resemblance to FEMA’s flood plain maps, it’s clear that the topology of cities has become its own ...

The Kingwood-area, which was among the hardest hit during Hurricane Harvey in 2017, had among the highest numbers of complaints, according City of Houston ... flooding to the city? Explore the map ...

After Hurricane Harvey, some Texas residents ... Another problem with Houston's flood maps is that they're out of date. They're based on rainfall data compiled up to 1994, which also inform ...

Now the maps are being redone ... NEVER AGAIN: 'Paradigm shift' on flooding emerging in Houston a year after Harvey Coley’s home sits a bit above the street, its slab foundation laid on a ...

Houston’s Harris County has 25,000 fewer flood-insured properties ... One problem with the maps highlighted by Tropical Storm Harvey: They don’t take into account the risk of flooding from ...

Flood maps show that more than 25 percent ... had three 500-year flood events since 2015. Many of the Houston area homes damaged during Harvey were not in designated flood plains.

Harvey is the third 500-year flood to hit the Houston area in the past three years ... But given that FEMA’s flood maps haven’t been updated to reflect sea-level rise and other factors ...