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Hurricane Harvey victims feeling abandoned after 8 years without aid
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Eight years after Hurricane Harvey devastated the Houston area, some families are still waiting on federal aid to fix their damaged homes. Some applied for the funds ...
Here's the dirt on farming, one of the top 3 industries in Palm Beach County
Editor's note: Palm Beach County leads every county east of the Mississippi in agricultural sales, according to the Palm ...
Nueces County requesting FEMA funds from past hurricane damages
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — A lack of information is how one Nueces County commissioner described a request to resubmit a claim for more than $700,000 in hurricane costs to FEMA. The money would go ...
America's most expensive natural disasters in recent decades
The costliest disasters on the National Centers for Environmental Information "Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters" ...
Economist Patrick Jankowski reflects on Houston's resilience through challenges
Patrick Jankowski, longtime Houston economist, reflects on the oil bust, the rise of tech, NAFTA, the growth of the suburbs ...
After Hurricane Beryl, Texas lawmakers push for generators at senior living facilities
When a storm hits the Texas coast during the summer hurricane season, state Sen. Borris Miles knows among the first calls ...
The Washington Post27d
Republicans want concessions before California gets its tax dollars back
In past similar moments, the federal government has quickly stepped in. Soon after Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas in 2017, Congress passed legislation that provided nearly $8 billion to ...
Climate Cosmos on MSN7d
Major Hurricanes in US History and Their Lessons
Up Call Hurricane Katrina, which struck in August 2005, remains one of the most devastating storms in US history. It caused widespread destruction across the Gulf Coast, particularly in New Orleans, ...
Inside Climate News25d
Texas Is Unprepared for Compound Climate Disasters
Hurricane Beryl had just made landfall in Houston ... from her parents had sustained significant damage from Hurricane Harvey in 2017 (she had to live in her car for months) and a band of intense ...
Forbes20d
The TikTok And Weather Communication Conundrum
this infrared image of Hurricane Harvey just prior to making landfall at 18:55 UTC on August 25, 2017 along the Texas coast. NOAA's National Hurricane Center has clocked Harvey's maximum sustained ...
Fast Company29d
It doesn’t matter what L.A.’s fire budget was—no city is prepared for climate change
he asks. Within a month of Hurricane Harvey’s landfall in Texas in 2017—considered the wettest tropical cyclone on record for the U.S.—officials proposed a major flood control bond measure.
Why do people stay put when climate change jeopardises their homes?
Storm, floods and fires have shifted the balance of risk and reward for many. Yet, even in the face of spiralling insurance and falling house values, our emotional and cultural ties have a high premiu ...