On May 1, Harris County Commissioner’s Court unanimously approved holding a special election on August 25, 2018 for a $2.5 billion flood-bond referendum. August 25th is the anniversary of Hurricane Harvey which affected an estimated 150,000 structures in the region according to FEMA. Ninety thousand of those structures, 60 percent, were outside the 500 year flood […]
If you missed the FloodWarn Workshop at Kingwood College on 5/1/18, you missed a lot of helpful information. All four FloodWarn Workshop presentations are now posted in one PDF in the reports section of this web site or via this link. National Weather Service Katie Landry-Guyton, Senior Service Hydrologist/Meteorologist from the National Weather Service-Houston/Galveston office, talked about various […]
Last Thursday, the SJRA board voted unanimously to temporarily lower the level of Lake Conroe between one and two feet during peak flood months. Great news…if you live in the Lake Houston area. Residents downstream of the dam applauded the move; upstream residents had concerns. On Friday, the Conroe Courier ran an article about the […]
PLEASE COME! FLOODWARN WORKSHOP MAY 1, 6:30-8:30 PM KINGWOOD COLLEGE 20,000 KINGWOOD DRIVE MUSIC BUILDING, ROOM 117 CLOSEST PARKING IS LOT G HOSTED BY NWS, FEMA, HCFCD, SJRA TONIGHT, May 1st at 6:30-8:30 p.m., The National Weather Service (NWS), Harris County Flood Control, and FEMA, and the San Jacinto River Authority are hosting a FloodWarn […]
Houston at the Crossroads: Resilience and Sustainability in the 21st Century examines population growth, economic vitality of the Houston region, the increasing frequency of severe rainfall events, and the ability of agriculture to sequester carbon dioxide in the ground. The basic premise? Houston’s current financial position in the world is at risk if we don’t change. Blackburn’s […]