Hurricane Harvey

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Houston area sees relief, rescues after Imelda leaves 4 dead

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 20, 2019

Emergency workers used boats Friday to rescue about 60 residents of a Houston-area community still trapped in their homes by floodwaters following one of the wettest tropical cyclones in U.S. history.

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EPA to clean up toxic Texas site damaged by Hurricane Harvey

Tue., April 10, 2018

Federal environmental regulators have reached a long-awaited agreement with the owners of a polluted toxic waste site in Texas that was damaged during Hurricane Harvey, releasing dangerous chemicals into a river.

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7 months after Hurricane Harvey, flood-control projects’ fate unclear

UPDATED: Sat., March 24, 2018

Large-scale projects long considered essential to easing Houston’s flooding woes went to the top of the area’s to-do list after Hurricane Harvey inundated large swaths of the nation’s fourth-largest city.

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Hurricane Center: Harvey’s ‘overwhelming’ rains were likely nation’s most extreme ever

Thu., Jan. 25, 2018

Hurricane Harvey unleashed a tropical deluge probably unsurpassed in U.S. history, the National Hurricane Center says. In an in-depth meteorological review of the storm released Thursday, the center said it was unable to identify any past storm that had unloaded so much rain over such a large area.

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Hurricane Harvey survivors feel grief, distress months later

UPDATED: Sat., Jan. 6, 2018

Deb Eberhart couldn’t sleep and was easily moved to tears as she worked to coordinate repairs to her Houston home in the months after flooding from Hurricane Harvey besieged it with 3 feet of water.

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FEMA sells disaster trailers cheaply despite victim demand

UPDATED: Wed., Dec. 27, 2017

The federal government typically spends up to $150,000 apiece – not counting utilities, maintenance or labor – on the trailers it leases to disaster victims, then auctions them at cut-rate prices after 18 months of use or the first sign of minor damage, the Associated Press has learned.

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Lack of transparency clouds Texas spending after Harvey

Sun., Dec. 17, 2017

Texas has been awarded billions in federal aid to help recover from Hurricane Harvey and the devastating flooding that followed, but it’s unclear how the state is spending its share of the money.

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Advocates say Texas exploiting day laborers after Harvey

Sun., Nov. 26, 2017

Hundreds of day laborers like Guillermo Miranda Vazquez have quietly become an integral part of the recovery from Harvey, toiling in dangerous conditions amid the fear of being picked up by immigration authorities.

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Debris removal from Harvey starts to wrap up in Texas

UPDATED: Wed., Nov. 22, 2017

Residents across the Houston area are starting to wrap up the monthslong effort of removing debris created by Hurricane Harvey.

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Texas governor: White House disaster aid bill ‘inadequate’

Fri., Nov. 17, 2017

Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Friday criticized as “completely inadequate” the Trump administration’s $44 billion request to Congress for disaster relief in his hurricane-ravaged state and other areas hammered by storms. The White House shot back that Texas may want to foot more of the bill for its own recovery.

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