"How decades of Houston development add up to rising flood risk" PBS NewsHour 2/5/2018 (Part 1)

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SUMMARY:  Houston is 627 square miles of urban development, highways, office parks, strip malls, and neighborhoods -- and it keeps growing farther and farther out.  Five months ago, Hurricane Harvey devastated the Texas coast, dropping more than 50 inches of rain across Houston and raising questions about the consequences of limitless development.  Hari Sreenivasan reports.

"Can Houston prevent disaster when the next storm comes?" PBS NewsHour 2/6/2018 (Part 2)

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SUMMARY:  Houston, known as the Bayou City, is no stranger to flooding.  But the record-breaking rains and devastating deluge of Hurricane Harvey helped expose a disconnect between developers building on flood-vulnerable land and home buyers who might not have realized the risk.  Hari Sreenivasan reports on how the region is confronting the likelihood of more floods, and long-term measures for mitigation.